The Hellbound Heart, (Paperback)

from Bridgey

The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker *** I don't know if many people realise that the 80's film Hellraiser was based on a short novella by Clive Barker? The Hellbound Heart is quick read. The basic plotline is that Frank has come into possession of a box. This box has a number of secret switches an...

from Daniel_Davis

Pretty good, if a little slight. It's totally ridiculous how the publisher has tried to stretch this out to be a novel by increasing the font size and line spacing to absurd amounts. It's a rather simpler tale. The character are entirely uninteresting, their relationships meaningless, and are giv...

from TheAmpersand

"The Hellbound Heart" has a lot of surprises in it. The first, of course, is that everyone's favorite cenboite, Pinhead, makes only a cameo appearance. I'd been warned about that one, but it also surprised me how much like a regular literary novel "The Hellbound Heart"can sometimes seem. Sure, it...

from whitewavedarling

For readers of horror, this is a must-read. The basis of Hell Raiser, this is one of those short Barker novels that packs so much into each line that the book seems to come alive, and brings together separate types of horror, felt by different individuals, in a way that makes it all too real. The...

from BookBindingBobby

One of the final forays into the horror genre Barker made, The Hellbound Heart truly goes beyond all horror of it's time. Even with contemporary writers, this piece holds its place as one of the most imaginative, visceral, and smart horror novellas in years. There is no reason to pass this gory t...