Thursday, October 2, 2025

CODEX OF PLEASURE AND PAIN: TALES & MUSIC INSPIRED BY CLIVE BAKER'S HELLRAISER

Raffaele Pezzella's Eighth Tower Publications is about to unleash another Dark Fiction, literary curation, along with an audio counterpart. One is called Codex of Pleasure and Pain: Stories Inspired by Clive Barker's Hellraiser and the other, Codex of Pleasure and Pain: A Sonic Tribute to Clive Barker's Hellraiser

The literary volume's in-the-style-of fables are delivered by Eighth Tower's trusty, in-house crew: Chris McCauley (also the anthology's editor), Edwin J. Buja, Michael F. Housel, Nora Peevy, Paolo L. Bandera, RDJ Armstrong, Scott J. Couturier and Simon Bleaken.

Each tale taps an element of Barker's Cenobite eroticism, pushing the boundaries of sanity, while grazing sensuality. There's no question that Barker fans will be tantalized by the inspired results. 

The audio tribute will stimulate in the same impressive manner, rendered by some of the most expressive artists in the business. Their contents are featured below, with the artists listed on the left and their tracks on the right: 

1) SELENI ... Beyond the Veil of Torment

2) Sonologyst + vAaristyma ... Echoes of Ecstatic Pain

3) Phillipe Blanche ... Relevatory Signs from the Underworld

4) Grey Frequency ... Demons to Some, Angels to Others 

5) 400 Lonely Things ... A Score to Settle (For Stephen Thrower)

6) Paolo L. Bandera ... Voce Cenobita Incandescente

7) phoanogramma ... seduction of pain

8) Kokum ... My voice fades away in the mystery cube

9) Mario Lino Stancati ... Circus of Pleasure and Pain

10) Nerthus ... Sweet Flesh

11) vAaristyma ... Lord of Labyrinths 

The Codex of Pleasure and Pain book and sonic salute can be preordered at 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/codex-of-and-to-140259062?utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link&post_id=140259062&utm_id=f330e0ef-659c-483e-a8a9-93ad39b06fbe&utm_medium=email

Keep in mind: The Codex combo holds a demonic draw that would put any Lament Configuration to shame. You've been warned!

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