Hellraiser: The Toll
Ratings8
Average rating3.3
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Ratings8
Average rating3.3
The second anthology of short story comics set in Barker's incredibly popular horror film milieu, this book collects ten Hellraiser-themed offerings, in full-colour from an all-star line-up of comics writers and illustrators, including Larry Wachowski (The Matrix), John Bolton, John Van Fleet, Dwayne McDuffie, Dave Dorman and many others.
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3 primary booksHellraiser is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 1986 with contributions by Clive Barker and Mark Alan Miller.
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This is a short story. It is a sequel to the movie, which is mostly equal to the first book. The recap at the beginning gave me high hopes. It set the story on track as a real sequel, acknowledging all the events that has happened before.
But then I kept waiting to see a good story, and the book ended. There is the beginnings of some possibly interesting plots here, but that's it.
I like the idea of humans finding a way to thwarts hell's plans. But they are just useless bystanders, both here and in the Scarlet Gospels. The author say they are the chosen ones, they have spells and special abilities. They know the occult, they have previously faced the enemy and came out alive. But nothing of that comes to any fruition.
A short novel that makes the bridge between the first Hellraiser book and the last one, tying some loose ends. Still it could have been really better if it had been a bit longer and the author would have been able to deploy all his vision.
It starts interesting but unfortunately never goes anywhere.
