"Burn this book. Do it. Quickly, while there's still time. Burn it.
Don't look at a single word more. Did you hear me? Not. One. Word."

This is how the diary of a demon from Hell begins, written in 1438. It is a manuscript soaked with the demonic essence of its author, which starts off as a pompous but seemingly harmless chronicle, but ends up revealing to the reader the shocking truth about the cause of the primordial war between Good and Evil.

"My name is Jackabok Bots. I used to know what it meant, but now I've forgotten. Once, I was imprisoned within these pages, trapped in the words you are reading right now and confined in darkness most of the time, while the book was buried for many centuries in a stack of books that no one ever opened. Not even a thousand years would be enough for me to describe the horrific acts that the words could incite. These are my memoirs. Or, if you will, my confession..."

Clive Barker, master of the macabre and the magical, one of the foremost representatives of horror literature, signs an original novel that will chill you to the bone.