Great collection of short stories based on the mythos created by Clive Barker in his novella The Hellbound Heart- well, all but three of the stories, but even those were pretty interesting. Of the whole collection there were only three that I didn't like (not the three mentioned previously) but they were not so bad that they ruined the overall experience.

This was a lot of fun to read as a fan of the Hellraiser franchise (and the short story that started it all). It was cool to read everyone’s take on the story and characters; to see how they made it their own and created different versions of The Order of the Gash and the Lemarchand Configurations. Some stories are far better than others, but I enjoyed them all and recommend this book to anyone who wants to experience the concept of Hellraiser told in many different voices.

I have maybe two more stories to go in this but I feel pretty confident that I can give it a review at this point. While not a total waste of time or complete garbage this collection isn't at all what I was hoping for. As other reviewers have stated, too much time and attention has been given to the horror, pain, torture and suffering aspects of the "mythology" and not enough time dedicated to the real focus of the original source material. While there is always an underlying sexual depravity to...

Dark and insanely twisted and a lot of trigger warnings apply--especially for rape, violence, abuse of both child and women, torture, and a bunch of other gory stuff that one should be prepared for before delving into a story. The more graphic ones definitely made my skin crawl. Certain pieces shone though as precious gems with their uniqueness, amidst the pile of torture porn filled stories, resembling the style of classic fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, and those typical of The NoSleep Po...

Most of the stories were awesome! About 3 disappointed me but not to the point of wishing I did not read them just not relatable to me personally! I might check out some of the authors other works because of this book. Well worth it!

I liked this more than I thought I would. It was much better than some random collection of modern "Lovecraft" stories I read a couple of years ago. The plots of these stories could be come a little repetitive, almost all of them had someone discovering THE BOX and opening it, and bad vanilla smells, shafts of light, bulging walls, and gruesome Cenobites followed. Here are some individual reviews:"Prisoners of the Inferno" by Peter Atkin, started off great with creepy rare movie footage, then fl...

Good collection of stories inspired in Pinhead and the Lemarchand's Configuration.The book is huge and contain a great amount of tales: some are quite good and include new elements like Santeria, tribes and original cenobites, others are similar to this crappy hellraiser films we have seen during the last years.My favourite ones:Mick Garris's "Hellbound Hollywood, A once famous director, feeling that he now has to accept whatever work he can get, reluctantly accepts the directorial role on a hor...

I really, really want to say that this was a great book.Not because I have any personal stake in it being great, but because it came so close to being. Most of the stories in it are pretty great. The high point for me was certainly "Mechanisms," an original story by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden illustrated in the same hauntingly atmospheric style as their novel Baltimore. But there were countless other great stories, by folks like Sarah Pinborough, Peter Atkins, Chaz Brenchley and others....

What can be said about “Hellbound Hearts”? The stories speak for themselves, but I feel compelled to summarize the experience for me. As a child the Hellraiser movies stroke unimaginable fear in my heart and I didn’t rekindle with the franchise until a later date, when I thought that the first two movies were in fact brilliant as in being something entirely else and bold and pretty damn good, even if they were dated.As a writer and an idea person I am drawn to concepts. A world with these demoni...

Hellbound Hearts is an anthology celebrating Hellraiser creator Clive Barker and the world he created with his novella The Hellbound Heart. This is a collection of tales inspired by Barker with some well-known and some not-known authors such as Neil Gaiman, Steve Niles, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Mick Garris, Richard Christian Matheson, Sarah Langan, Mark Morris, Nancy Kilpatrick, Peter Atkins, Tim Lebbon, Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, Kelley Armstrong and Nicholas Vince - edited by Paul

With a couple of exceptions, a strong collection of well-written stories set within Barker's Hellraiser mythos (and a couple more that struggle to show their connection to the source, and would have passed unnoticed in any other horror anthology). Sadly, and to the editors' demerit, a great many stories in this collection are largely identical in plot: a flawed protagonist in search of something (missing person, S&M club, snuff movie...), encounters a puzzle, solves it (all too easily), summonin...

This book was like a date that was started because of OkCupid. It starts out well and you're really excited to see where it goes. But, then it becomes a chore. You find yourself wondering if perhaps Stephanie Meyer has responded to your tweet. Perhaps you should really call your mother. Then there's that knitting habit you picked up for a nanosecond 3 weeks ago. Overall, this is one of those books you read as a palate cleanser. Leave it on the nightstand and come back to it occasionally. Don't m...

Okay, well, this book was actually probably good. Some of the short stories were intriguing and well written (some were strange, but I suppose that's par for the course here). But I hate short story collections. I really do. I don't want to give this too low a rating for my own personal opinions, but I also felt that none of the stories really stuck out to me enough to research any of the authors or look up their other work. Every story was totally and completely different than the next though,

A fair collection of stories, based on a damned fine mythos.

I honestly don't know what the other reviewers were smoking, but most of the stories in this book were not good. I won't say trash - although many of them were - because some stories had redeeming qualities.It's like they focused mostly on the pain and suffering the Cenobites bring, with the writers engaging in orgiastic detail on the types of tortures the Cenobites can dish out. Barker's Hellraiser story was compelling because it focused on human emotions and desires and how they play out in th...

The Hellbound Heart is a horror novella by Clive Barker. It was the basis for the movie Hellraiser. It was originally published in 1986 by Dark Harvest in the third volume of their Night Visions anthology series (the volume also included seven short stories by Ramsey Campbell and three by Lisa Tuttle) but was re-released as a stand-alone title by HarperCollins in 1988 after the success of the movie. It retains the gory, visceral style that Barker introduced in his series of collected short stori...

A delightfully sick and twisted little collection of short stories inspired, more or less, by the Hellraiser mythos. Varying degrees of quality and of horror, with a few only hinting at horror, like the final tale in which a typhoon sweeps away a young prostitute, and others engaging in all-out Hellraiser torture sequences. The most frightening, oddly enough, are the ones that are the least inspired by Hellbound Hearts, and I still find myself shivering at a tale of mechanical transcendence gone...

3.5 stars. Some of the stories were really good. I especially enjoyed Pinborough's The Confessor's Tale and Lebbon's Every Wrong Turn. However, some of these stories were, honestly, awful. All in all, though, it was a decent collection of Hellraiser fanfic, one story going so far as to vaguely reference the characters of Barker's The Hellbound Heart. If nothing else, some of these stories were incredibly disturbing.

Like many short story collections some of the tales in this book were great and some not so much. The stories explore the Hellraiser/Hellbound Heart universe and they varied wildly. New Cenobites are introduced (one is a cactus!) and also created. New ways of opening portals are explored including bone puzzle tiles, crypt stones, an acient map to a maze, an art installation, crosswords, religious icon-type statues, a strange machine and a compass, but of course the puzzle box also makes a number...

“We have such sights to show you..”Hellbound Hearts is edited by Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan. It’s an anthology based on the infamous Hellraiser/Hellbound Heart mythos. This anthology contains several imaginative stories that will feed your need for some more evil from the Cenobites you know so well.What is great about this collection is that although they all contain some aspect of the Hellraiser story, they each deliver on darkly twisted horror which will disturb you with gore and morbid writi...