Clive Barker’s "The Hellbound Heart" Has Everything You Want in a Horror Novel
As Halloween draws near, many people like to indulge themselves with a scary book, and I’m no different. I picked The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker. It tells the tale of Frank, a man who doesn’t know when to stop. Having tried every sexual thrill imaginable and still finding himself insatiable, Frank becomes crestfallen, joyless, and numb to life. At the beginning of the novel, Frank summons the Cenobites using an intricate music box called Lemarchand’s Box. He performs the