Clive Barker: The Hellbound Heart (Paperback, 1991, HarperTouch)
Paperback, 164 pages
English language
Published Nov. 1, 1991 by HarperTouch.
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…
The Hellbound Heart is a wonderfully written horrifying novel.
I read it after I saw the Hellraiser movie however. I love the imagery in the movie, but the book is great too.
It's very well written, and never really gets boring or slow. It is a bit strange in parts, but I like that.
