FROM THE PUBLISHER

Best-selling science fiction and fantasy artist Wayne Barlowe abandons his popular illustrative style and adopts a classic painterly technique in these images of Hell's structures, iconographies, and inhabitants. In Barlowe's Hell, he incorporates the visual myths from many religions to present a chilling and beautiful collection of carefully researched and rendered artwork whose bizarre images conatin symbolic references to age-old beliefs and practices. These are works reminiscent of painter John Martin, whose own vistas of Hell hang in the world's finest museums.

Riveting drawings of evil-looking demons gaze back at the viewer with silent malevolence. Surreal portraits of distorted and forlorn souls convey the plight of Hell's victims. Gray vistas focus on demonic edifices such as the stabel for the Four Horses of the Apocalypse and towering wargates constructed in homage to Hell's defeated army of fallen angels. Ornately carved structures rise up, adorned with monstrous glowing glyphs that float in the foul air. With his inspired brushwork Barlowe has created a living hell, magnificently following the grand tradition of the 19th century masters.