Reading: The Hellbound Heart
It's been a while since I wrote a review, mostly because life has been busy with other (significantly positive!) things. As before, this is reading done with the Girls Guts Giallo book club, which is one of the many benefits subscribers get from the patreon page. Now, I probably won't be shocking anyone with a review where I say that I liked The Hellbound Heart and think it's very good- it's Clive Barker and his work rules- but I do think that it's worth talking about since more people are likely familiar with Hellraiser and its subsequent franchise than the novella that spawned it. My copy of The Hellbound Heart. Had to splurge for the good book cover. Barker's writing is both luscious and evocative while being highly consumable, a style that is blunt but artful, descriptive without being stuffy. It's exactly the kind of writing you easily devour in an evening or two, which I did. It's fun how even the descriptions of gore and mutilatio