Book: Hellbound Hearts
Authors: Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan
Contribution by: Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman
Publish date: September 2009
Pages: 352
ISBN-10: 1439140901
ISBN-13: 9781439140901
Summary
Clive Barker’s iconic masterpiece The Hellbound Heart, 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.
My Thoughts
This is my new carry-around-with-me book. I have it in my purse and whenever I am waiting for the girls to finish one activity or other, I pull this out and read something amazing. The thing that I love about short stories is that they are SHORT. I can finish one terrific tale while my daughter is finishing up her dance class.
I don’t usually like watching gory horror movies. The days when I paid money for a massacre movie are over but I do enjoy a good horror story. I like a well scripted story, so vivid in its description that it raises the hairs on the back of your neck and goosebumps in your arms. If you like scary stories, then this is the book for you. The stories are short enough that it would make for a good campfire read.
I love that they put Neil Gaiman’s contribution at the end, because that’s what I would have done too. Saved the best for last 
Thanks to Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster for giving me a copy of the book to review.
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