The Hellbound Heart

The basis for the horror film "Hellraiser," this novella is a nerve-shattering tale about the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within its endless domain.

From The Publisher:

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.