Hellbound Hearts - Twenty-One Tales inspired by Clive Barker's Hellraising Universe

Clive Barker, Paul Kane, Marie O'Regan, Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean, Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, Barbie Wilde, Yvonne Navarro, Steve Niles, Tim Lebbon, Peter Atkins, Conrad Williams, Sarah Pinborough, Mick Garris, Richard Christian Matheson, Nancy Holder, Simon Clark, Sarah Langan, Nicholas Vince, Mark Morris, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Nancy Kilpatrick, Chaz Brenchley, Gary A. Braunbeck & Lucy A. Snyder, and other acclaimed storytellers, AA.VV, VV.AA, et al

Pocket Books / Gallery Books

2009

352 páginas

11h 44m

ISBN-13: 9781439164754

Hellbound Hearts [Based on the novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker] '-'
Clive Barker's iconic masterpiece The Hellbound Heart [ISBN: 9781439140901 / 1439140901 ], the novella adapted into the film Hellraiser, unleashed a new mythology of horror, brilliantly conceived and born of the darkest imagination. Now, enter this visionary world -- the merciless realm of the demonic Cenobites -- in this collection of stories inspired by The Hellbound Heart. Featured here is the graphic work "Wordsworth," from bestselling author Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean, who unlock an explicit way to violate innocence -- one torturous puzzle at a time.... New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong logs on to a disturbing website for gamers, where the challenge is agonizing, and the solution beyond painful. When his father disappears, an Oxford student returns to his family's mansion, where a strange mechanism in the cellar holds a curious power, in a haunting illustrated work by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola.

This undistinguished anthology set in Clive Barker's imagined universe in which a puzzle box serves as the gateway to the realm of the sado-masochistic Cenobites ties in with the release of a remake of the 1987 horror film Hellraiser, adapted from Barker's novella "The Hellbound Heart." Unsurprisingly, these 21 stories are no more for the faint-of-heart than the materials that inspired them. While non-Barker fans may recoil at what often comes across as violence for violence's sake, even those who found some literary merit in the gory Barker novella may grow weary of a regular dose of torture, genital mutilation and bleak savagery. Not even a gifted and well-known author like Neil Gaiman ("Wordsworth," a tale in graphic form with artist Dave McKean) can do much with the theme of an innocent or a non-innocent stumbling on or seeking the fabled box and unleashing, accidentally or not, the horrific Cenobites. Other contributors include Conrad Williams, Tim Lebbon, Kelley Armstrong, Nancy Holder, Sarah Langan and Chaz Brenchley. Stephen Jones, who worked on the film Hellraiser, provides an introduction.

[Review]: Barbie Wilde's 'Sister Cilice' is devastatingly haunting, piercingly erotic and is one of the true stand-out stories of the anthology." ---All Things Horror.

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O ápice da literatura de horror!

Mesmo tendo assistido vários filmes baseados nas obras de Clive Barker durante a minha vida, e tendo lido os dois primeiros Livros de Sangue e Cabal, ainda assim fui surpreendido pela alto nível de qualidade desse livro.
Lendo no original em inglês, vê-se que Clive Barker é um gênio com as palavras. Com uma prosa inteligente unida a vocabulário sensacional, mais um ritmo perfeito de andamento, essa história é a melhor dele que eu já li, e tranquilamente uma obra-prima do horror no geral.
Stephen King estava mais do que certo quando disse, há quase 30 anos atrás, que Barker era o futuro do horror.