The Hellbound Heart
by:
Clive Barker (author)
Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the...
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Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror film, Hellraiser.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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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780007382934
Publish date: November 24th 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 174
Edition language: English
Came in to update the currently reading list to reflect what I am actually reading these days. I finished this one. Click the link to read my full review of this.
This book was amazing! I honestly hold my hands up to the fact I've never personally fully read one of Clive Barker's written works. I reached half way with book's of blood and gave up So when I picked this up on my libraries, digital book section I wasn't expecting much. Oh, How wrong I was.... It'...
Synopsis: Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back, though the price will be bloody...
This is one of my favourite books by Clive Barker. I saw the film before reading the book - a truly terrifying experience for a 10 year old girl, lol. This book is very similar to the film. In fact, of all the book/film comparisons I've made over the years, I'd say these two are the most closely r...
I'd been meaning to read this for years. I'm not a huge fan of horror, but I found the concept of the Cenobites fascinating. I'd always felt that the movie had some inconsistencies, since it claimed the cenobites offered pleasure and pain, but in the movie, all that was portrayed was pain. I was ...
5 years ago
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