Barlowe's Inferno
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The book Barlowe's Inferno details artist/author Wayne Barlowe's imaginary journey to a unique and vivid depiction of Hell. A loose running narrative to the book's striking images explains that Barlowe has been forcibly taken on a tour of the Pit by Sargatanas, the Revealer of Hell, and one of the Demons Major. The Demons Major are Hell's ruling class, and below them serve the Demons Minor. Human souls make up the lowest rung of Hell's hierarchy and are also its chief resource, being easily twisted and reshaped by their masters into (among other things) soldiers, pack animals, and building materials.
Barlowe is first taken to Dis, Hell's capital city, which is slowly and continually built on two opposing molars of the Leviathan by soul laborers. Each time the city is completed the great molars crash together, and the Sisyphean task starts anew. Other locations included are the cyclopean Wargate (made in the style of fascist rally), the living Watchtowers, and the residence of one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
In the sequel, Brushfire: Illuminations from the Inferno, it is implied that Lucifer was reduced to a black sludge when he fell. This lava-like substance forms a layer that runs underneath all of Hell, the current regent being Beelzebub, who rules from beneath the largest dome within his keep.
