The Hellbound Heart
Ratings67
Average rating3.9
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Ratings67
Average rating3.9
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.
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2,357 booksWhen you think back on every book you've ever read, what are some of your favorites? These can be from any time of your life – books that resonated with you as a kid, ones that shaped your personal...
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So, so dark but so freakin' good! I love the movie to bits and pieces but this is even better.
Nu stiu de ce ma asteptam la ceva mai bun tinand cont ca si filmul, si cartea, sunt facute de aceeasi persoana.
Read it in only a couple of hours the same day I bought it. And it was so good! And I'm not even a fan of gore at all. But I just couldn't put the book aside. Definitely gonna try another Barker in the future (though hopefully an edition with less typos and printing errors).
“We have such sights to show you”, yet this is a book. And a short one at that. The movie captivated me with not only its tone and gritty visuals but also with its narrative. The book falls very short in comparison to that.
I don't like horror books because they rely on “terror of the unknown”, eliciting emotions of dread on the reader. I don't fear the unknown and I'm too much in control of my emotions to enjoy the experience I believe.
The book added nothing to the movie experience, and if I hadn't watched the movie, I wouldn't have cared for this book at all.
Hellraiser is to this day my favorite horror movie, one in a very short list, because of the things it added to the genre. The gruesome Leviathan's infernal labyrinth of unimaginable torture, pushing he boundaries of torment beyond the limits of the flesh.
The key to hell is desire, and the price is eternal agony.
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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.
