7/5/2023 0 Comments The hellbound heart novelFrank tracks down the current owner of the box in Düsseldorf and obtains it through performing "small favors". Jaded, Frank hears rumor of a mysterious puzzle box (the Lament Configuration) which opens the gateway to a realm of unfathomable carnal pleasures. The story focuses on a mystical Puzzle Box (Lemarchand Configuration) and the horror it wreaks on a family which is unfortunate enough to come across it.įrank is a nihilist and selfish moral degenerate who has participated in every hedonistic pleasure, extreme experience and sexual perversion known to man, each time seeking a greater pleasure higher than the last. It retains the gory, visceral style that Barker introduced in his series of collected short stories The Books of Blood. It was originally published in November 1986 by Dark Harvest in the third volume of their Night Visions anthology series, but was re-released as a stand-alone title by Harper Collins in 1988 after the success of the movie, along with an audiobook recorded by Clive Barker and published by Audioworks. The Hellbound Heart is a horror novella by Clive Barker that was the basis for the 1987 movie Hellraiser.
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