After a battle lasting many ages, The Devil won, And said to God (who had been his Maker): Lord, We are about to witness the unmaking of Creation By my hand. I would not wish you to think me cruel, So I beg you, take three things From this world before I destroy it. Three things, and then the rest will be wiped away.' God thought for a little time. And at last He said: No, there is nothing.' The Devil was surprised. Not even you, Lord?' he said. And God said: No. Not even me.

4 through 6 were publiClive Barkerd in the U. Barker said in a December 2008 online interview (publiClive Barkerd March 2009) that he had polyps in his throat which were so severe that a doctor told him he was taking in ten percent of the air he was supposed to have been getting. According to the Revelations website the collection includes "introductions to both his own work and the works of others newspaper and magazine articles tributes and appreciations and other contributions to books".

Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which establiClive Barkerd him as a leading young horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works and his fiction has been adapted into motion pictures notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series.