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Our friends over at Suntup Editions are celebrating Clive Barker’s masterpiece The Hellbound Heart with a brand new signed limited edition release that is NOW AVAILABLE.
Signed by Clive Barker himself, this special edition also features fourteen brand new illustrations by Clive Barker, a new afterword by Phil and Sarah Stokes and bonus content that includes scans of Clive’s handwritten and typewritten manuscripts, his original sketches of the Cenobite and a reproduction of Kirk Reinert’s cover art from the first paperback edition.
The Hellbound Heart, of course, became the basis for the Hellraiser franchise.
These editions are highly limited with a very low print run, and are now available for pre-order here.
Suntup Editions previews, “As intense and disturbing as it is impossible to put down, The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker is a landmark work of modern horror—one that redefined the genre on its publication and continues to unsettle readers decades later.”
When Frank Cotton’s dark appetites for pleasure and pain push him beyond moral and physical limits, a mysterious puzzle box becomes his gateway into a nightmarish netherworld inhabited by the Cenobites—extradimensional beings who traffic in experiences so extreme that the boundaries between ecstasy and agony dissolve. After Frank’s catastrophic fate, one woman remains obsessed with him: his brother’s wife, Julia, whose devotion drives her to acts of shocking brutality as she attempts to restore Frank piece by piece, no matter the human cost.
“First published in November 1986 by Dark Harvest in the third volume of its Night Visions anthology series, The Hellbound Heart was instantly praised by critics and readers alike as a groundbreaking achievement in horror fiction,” Suntup reminds. “Its impact only deepened when it was adapted into the 1987 film Hellraiser, also written and directed by Barker. The film’s success cemented the story’s place in popular culture and spawned multiple film sequels, before HarperPaperbacks issued the work as a standalone edition in 1991.
“At once brutal and strangely intimate, this nerve-shattering novella is as much a meditation on obsession, longing, and the boundaries of the human heart as it is a work of pure horror. Unflinching in its vision and relentless in its execution, The Hellbound Heart endures as Barker’s masterwork of terror.”
The Classic edition includes a reversible dust jacket featuring Reinert’s artwork as well as a new piece of art created exclusively for the edition’s dust jacket by Dave McKean.
Limited to only 1,250 copies available for sale, it can be purchased here. For more information on the Lettered and Numbered editions, visit: https://suntup.press.
