PRAISE FOR GOD'S DEMON
“War in Hell! Not since John Milton’s Paradise Lost have we seen such a vivid and well-informed account of infernal doings. Barlowe’s fascination with the abomination has continued through a mesmerizing series of lurid demonic portraits, and here, in a rousing adventure set almost entirely in Hell, these figures come to loathsome life. How do they behave? Appallingly. Just as you’d hoped.”
ALICE K. TURNER, author of The History of Hell“A fascinating look at court politics and intrigue, God’s Demon is an I, Claudius in Hades. Barlowe presents us with an epic fresco of Hell: from its hierarchy to its biology and public works. And within the strokes of its detailed and engaging portraiture of black against black he reveals shades of villainy, passion, and, indeed, heroism. May this chronicle go on.”
GUILLERMO DEL TORO, director of Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth“Wayne Barlowe’s prose Hell is every bit as strange, terrifying and bizarrely beautiful as his painting, and that’s saying something.”
MIKE MIGNOLA, creator of Hellboy“There’s a scope to God’s Demon in its sweeping depictions of Hell, its military campaigns, its social hierarchies, its intricate plots and political intrigues, and in the all-too-human desire of the demon Sargatanas that you just don’t get these days in fantastic fiction. Barlowe’s painter’s eye captures and renders the vastness of the underworld very powerfully and yet, like the old masters using the two hair brush, also renders the most intense detail.”
JEFFREY FORD, World Fantasy Award-winning author“God’s Demon is a hellish journey into the world of the damned. It is an exploration of the character of punishment and pride guided by the consummate hand of an artist and humanitarian who has masterfully architected a landscape as tactile and sensitive as a living organism. Barlowe is renowned for the creation of tormented worlds through his illustrations and paintings and now has opened a graphic and unnerving literary journey into the psychology of the guilt of sin.”
RICHARD TAYLOR, director of Weta Workshop and five-time Academy Award-winner
