The Hellbound Heart

by Clive Barker

Paperback, 164 pages

English language

Published Nov. 1, 1991 by HarperTouch.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-100282-3
OCLC Number:: 24634586

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable pleasures and unimaginable horror… Now Frank - or what is left of Frank - waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was before. All Julia can do is bring him her unfulfilled passions… and a little flesh and blood…

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Cheri reviewed The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (Hellraiser, #1)

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4 stars

Always loved the Hellraiser movie and wanted to see how the book compared. It's pretty close with the major difference being the relationships (ie the daughter in the movie is a friend in the book) but I would absolutely read this novella again. It's dark and bloody and good.