 Feeling compassion, Harry comforts the child and tells the pair that they can trust him to help.The novel had a long gestation period, with Barker talking as early as 1998 about wanting to write a story in which he killed the Pinhead character.Updates to the novel's progress appeared on Barker's website sporadically over the course of the next twelve years, mostly related to the book's progressively swelling length; at one point, Barker predicted that his completed manuscript would reach 1,000-2,000 pages.