/lit/ - Literature

Can it live up to the hype?

Regarding the plot synopsis...

"The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against his formidable, and intensely evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell."

The synopsis describes Pinhead as evil, but from what I remember, The Order of the Gash were simply amoral, weren't they? They considered themselves explorers of experience and were neither good nor evil, from what I remember of The Hellbound Heart novella.

That's one of the reasons why I found the novella to be so interesting, because they weren't just evil beings. They simply had their own ideologies and ways of life. But now, The Scarlet Gospels is being described as a battle of good versus evil (yawn).

Any idea why Clive Barker changed his stance on this?