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Best-selling horror novelist Clive Barker has a lot on his plate right now, especially Books of Blood, a short story collection he wrote a while back. While two films are already in post-production from the anthology – Midnight Meat Train and the titular story – a third is currently in script stage. IGN reports that their DVD columnist Christopher Monfette has been tasked with adapting Down, Satan! the four page story into a full feature-length film.

”For the past several months, I’ve been in the unique and incredibly humbling position of working alongside Clive on this adaptation," said Monfette. "He’s proven such a supportive and open collaborator that it’s been both a challenge and an honor to play around in this decidedly horrific sandbox."

The story is about a wealthy businessman who constructs Hell on Earth to tempt God into showing himself. While the original story itself was only four pages, it was quite a compressed story that took some time to get into. Monfette seems to agree, too, stating that it has always “spoken” to him.

"Not simply as a piece of horrific fiction, or even on a deeper religious level – though it works masterfully on both – but as a story that speaks to our human desire to be loved and accepted and acknowledged,” he said, adding, “And how, in the absence of that, we’ll accept the opposite – condemnation or anger – any sign of honest emotion."

The movie is currently in script stage.