/lit/ - Literature

>>23111257
NTA, but technically it's Wayne Barlowe's Inferno that has all the (largely plotless) hellscape art in it. God's Demon is a fantasy novel about one of the chief archdemons in hell getting sick and tired of living for countless thousands of years in abject misery and degradation because it is decidedly NOT better to reign in hell that serve in heaven, and he decides to surreptitiously gather those fallen who regret severing their connection to the Most High in a conspiracy against the most depraved rulers of hell (in particular Beelzebub, a demon who was created by Lucifer as his regent and therefore has no memory of Heaven to recollect in the first place) who cannot brook any notions that their rule isn't the best.
Its sequel The Heart of Hell concerns primarily the quest of Lilith, First Woman and lover of Sargatanas, the archfiend who started the war against Beelzebub in the last book.
There's supposed to be a third novel in development, ostensibly titled "Lucifer's Soul", but there hasn't been much word about it.

Wayne Barlowe's instagram is filled with art of these, and not all of them are the wretched cruelties of Hell, a few select pieces allude to the glories of Heaven.