Synopsis
Liverpool born and educated Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror film, Hellraiser. 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!What Did We Think?
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Votes were as follows: 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 7
Not the most successful result for our first foray into the world of Horror. Ah well, maybe next time.
did enjoy the book, short and compact but nothing wasted, wonder what colossal word count king would have made out of it, good imagery and the characters to the point, although do recall the image of frank captured being used in another novel and film, name escapes me. not usually read horror per say, though the boundary between horror and fantasy being bridged with 'dark fantasy' novels
ReplyDeletewould hae scored it a 7