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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780061452888
ISBN number: 0061452882
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 176
Printing Date: October 01, 2007
Publishing house: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: October 02, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 26478
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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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 and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay.
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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.
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After reading many of Barker's stories, and in some cases watching, I am always amazed and very pleased with his work. "Hellbound Heart" is essentially a story about the human heart; whether it's betrayal, heart break, or even quintessential love. Barker really nails this theme excellently in this short novella (better than the film adaption, in my opinion.)
Like many Barker stories, he begins with an explanation of a complex device (Lemarchand box), where it's used as a metaphor for the story. The narrative is pragmatic and concise like usual, often wrought with amazing macabre imagery that you would fully expect out of Barker. Perhaps what makes this story so great are the interesting characters who are riddled with contradictions to make them jaded and strange. The film adaption does some justice, but Barker's obviously more of a wordsmith-style storyteller. If you have watched the film, I would suggest picking this up anyway.
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This is a short story that was published as if it were a book. I was pulled in by the reviews saying that this show the want of pleasure in the human heart and such, what I got was a short story (not much of a novel) with no character development. The one sidedness of the characters is bad and the gore of the story is boring. This had a lot of potential to be good, but it doesn't have anywhere near the development it needs, Barker should have rewritten it when he finished and added more to the characters maybe add to how Julia and Rory's relationship fell apart and let's just face it this wasn't scary at all.
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I have been a fan of Clive Barker since reading Imagica a couple years ago. Barker can write some truly imaginative books. He is one of the authors that breaks the mold of our commercial carbon copy writing industry. I knew that if I was going to ever see myself a fan of his works I had to read Hellbound Heart. This is the book that started the whole Hellraiser movie series. If you ever saw the movies you know how hard it is to forget `pinhead'. First and foremost you don't have a clear description of any Cenobite that reflects the pinhead character except for the reference to `the engineer'. With that said don't buy this book just for pinhead, you'll miss the point. The book is very short (between 150-180pg depending on your edition) so reading it in a single sitting is not hard to do. It took me two days to read it. This book was amazing! The way Clive Barker describes the human heart with its lust and desires Often the heart is drawn despite the fact that what you may desire can harm your soul (or torture it) is the underlying theme that makes this story so powerful. The author also has a great way of describing the atmosphere. There is a paragraph at the start of one of the chapters that describes the way seasons over take each other with a violent submission that is similar to the submission patterns of the characters. This is a great classic and should be read by any horror fan.
A great short story I give it 5 of 5 stars!
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I remember watching the 1st Hellraiser for the very very first time not long ago. Now to many of you that seems kind of strange, but I'm only 21 and so I had no clue who Clive Barker was or what this story was all about.
After watching the movie I wasn't all that impressed. But I remember noticing that the film was based on a book called The Hellbound Heart, so I went and bought the book and was surprised to see it's small size. I glanced through the very first couple of pages and found myself immediately hooked. I couldn't believe how clean and elicit the prose were in this novella. I couldn't stop reading it.
What I learned while reading this novella was this: It's true when they say that books are better than movies (I truly believe that!). This book is not only, at times, sickening to the stomach because of the powerful impact of imagery, causing some of the most horrifying moments in any story that I have ever read, but also pleasing to a reader's eye, because the writing style is just remarkable!
Barker has become one of my favorite writers. He's witty and descriptive; he's clever and dark; he's all around a great writer!
If you get a chance, or just want something entertaining to read that will also make your stomach cringe, grab this novella and read it. You won't regret it.
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The Hellbound Heart: A NovelI never thought that I would be able to get a new copy of this book.To sum it all up ,it is better than the movie it inspired (Hellraiser)
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