The Hellbound Heart

From his Books of Blood to The Damnation Game, Weaveworld, and The Great and Secret Show, to scores of short stories, bestselling novels, and now major motion pictures, no one comes close to the vivid imagination and unique terrors provided by Clive Barker.The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, a nerve-shattering novella about the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within its endless domain. It is about greed and love, lovelessness and despair, desire and death, life and captivity, bells and blood. It is one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read. 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

from His Books Of Blood To The Damnation Game, Weaveworld, And The Great And Secret Show, To Scores Of Short Stories, Bestselling Novels, And Now Major Motion Pictures, No One Comes Close To The Vivid Imagination And Unique Terrors Provided By Clive Barker.

atlanta Journal

spellbinding.

Julia, in love with her evil brother-in-law, provides her blood in exchange for the promise of ultimate sensual pleasure So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring. The searing novella that inspired the film shocker HELLRAISER. [From the front cover.]