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The most original vision to emerge from horror literature in the past few decades.
The original work of the film series "Hellraiser," which influenced the manga "Berserk"
An artistic body horror novel that reflects on eroticism.
A representative horror masterpiece of the 1980s, translated for the first time in 39 years!

The legendary 'Le Marchand's Box', which is said to allow humans to reach a realm of pleasure they have never experienced before.
Frank Cotton finally gets his hands on this Le Marchant box after a long pursuit. When he finally opens the box, a more bizarre being than anyone else appears before him: the Cenobite, a monk from Hell.
Frank makes a pact with the Cenobites to experience endless pleasure, and is summoned to a world he has previously experienced... As he witnesses the painful and horrific landscapes of that world, Frank realizes that he has made the wrong pact.

Years later, Frank's brother, Laurie Cotton, and his wife, Julia, move into the house at 55 Lodovico Street, where he disappeared.
And Julia senses a strange energy in the dark, damp room where Frank disappeared… .

The novel "The Hellbound Heart" is the original work of the Hellraiser franchise, which had a huge impact on the horror culture of the 1980s.
Pinhead, an icon in this universe (Clive Barker disliked this name and later renamed him 'Hell Priest'), is probably one of the most famous characters created by Clive Barker, along with Candyman.
Considering that the film version of Candyman differs significantly from the novel version, Pinhead is probably the most famous character created by Clive Barker himself.

"Hellbound Heart" is not only famous, but it is also recognized as a source material by reinterpreting classic motifs.
The archetypal story of 'Faust's Contract' was reimagined in a form suitable for the neoliberal era of pleasure and desire in the 1980s, and the bizarre relationship between Frank Cotton and Julia in the novel was a splatter horror interpretation of 'Beauty and the Beast'.
(This also influenced all other works dealing with the forbidden love between the undead and humans.) And above all, it is a well-known fact that the appearance of Pinhead and his fellow monks (Cenobites), who pursue pleasure beyond human imagination rather than the traditional devil image, influenced the famous comic book Berserk.

"The Hellbound Heart" is also a novel about the human mind and the immense horrors and ecstasies that lie within its boundless realms.
All horror novels delve deeply into human desires, but this one boasts the most striking insight.
The work explores greed and love, despair in loveless relationships, desire and death, life and bondage.
The characters Frank, Julia, Rory, and Kirsty also provide clues for deep thought in that they deal with the desires of humans living within the order of the symbolic order.
What do Frank, with his twisted desires and violence, and Laurie, who embodies the image of a man as a social role model more than anyone else, symbolize? And what about Julia's deviant desires, who has been forced to live up to the ideal womanhood she was given all her life?
As we contemplate Kirsty's yearning for recognition and the Cenobites, who seem to embody the very things forbidden in our world, we gain a deeper insight into how the taboos of our social order inspire other desires, and how these desires, intertwined and intertwined, create tragedy.