But when Frank manages to open it during the ceremony and the beings known as Cenobites appear, he discovers that his idea of pleasure and their idea of pleasure are worlds apart. Never satisfied, he seeks out a puzzle box that he has heard will bring forth beings who can offer him unspeakable pleasures.įrank finds and obtains the box, and hides out at his late grandmother's empty home in England to figure out how to open it.

It's about a hedonistic criminal named Frank Cotton, who is continuously scouring the globe for the utmost in pleasures. The book runs about 164 pages or, in its audio version, three hours long. The Hellbound Heart was originally published by Dark Harvest in the third volume of its Night Visions anthology series.

(He's the rare author who can't complain about the adaptation making changes to his work, since he was responsible for the edits.) While the plot of Hellraiser follows the same basic outline as The Hellbound Heart, there are several changes, made all the more interesting by the fact that author Clive Barker also wrote the screenplay for the film version and directed it. It’s just one of the many differences between The Hellbound Heart and Hellraiser. Based on this character's lasting popularity in pop culture and starring role in the upcoming reboot of the franchise, you might think that Pinhead featured prominently in the book-but that’s not the case. It's one of the most arresting sights in the 1987 film adaptation of Clive Barker's 1986 novella, The Hellbound Heart. Pinhead is a tall, bald, pasty white being decked out in a long black leather getup, with what appear to be finish nails stuck all over his head. One of the most recognizable characters from horror films, and a wildly popular Halloween costume to boot, is The Hell Priest, better known as Pinhead, from Hellraiser.

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