CLAUDE RAINS
CLIVE BARKER
CONRAD VEIDT
DAN CURTIS
DANTE ALIGHIERI
"Prior to the early 14th century, there was no detailed written accounts of the Christian Hell. It was Dante, who during that time wrote the poem, The Divine Comedy (known simply as Commedia then). Broken into the sections: Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradisio (Heaven), it gave a detailed account of Dante's journery through these three parts of the afterlife.
The most popular section of course, was the Inferno. Led by the poet, Virgil, Dante traveled through the Nine Circles of Hell. In Hell, sinners would be punished with their own sins for all eternity, and each Circle would have more grievous and wicked sins than the last, depicted in all their gory detail. The Ninth Circle was the farthest from God where Satan was frozen (Hellfire is only in the lesser circles), along with the three greatest traitors: Marcus Brutus, Cassius, and of course, Judas.
Dante's Inferno has been an astounding piece of literature that has influenced not just horror and art, but everyday people for countless centuries. Dante is truly iconic when it comes to horror, in every sense of the word." -
Papillon Noir