 Thanks for checking out this book review video. Okay, so as I've said before I Haven't been huge on reading a lot of part of my life But when I did get into reading I got into horror and I haven't read a ton of books in the past bunch of years Because I'm a slow reader. I do other things. I watch a lot of movies So but there's one author who I've actually read a good amount of their books because I like their their writing style I love their story ideas and how dark they get to like graphic and dark and that is mr. Clive Barker So that's why I'm reviewing the hellbound heart and it's been a few years since I've read this book But I remember it pretty well because this is one of my favorite books hands down The other cool thing is I may be getting the chance to meet Clive Barker at a Monster mania convention in August so when that happens I'm hoping I can take this copy of the hellbound heart and get him to sign it Because it's one of my favorite horror books. It's one of my favorite books period so one of the things to know off the bat with this is it's super easy it's fast it's easy and Yeah, I mean as you can see like the pages aren't that big and the text is large So it goes really fast. The other thing is it's only a hundred and sixty four pages for the story So that's so fast like most books are well over 200 pages So this being so short you can fly through this and it also kind of depends on your reading speed But I got through this one relatively quick. The other thing is it's a super engaging story So this is the book that Well, actually, I'm gonna give you a closer up look at it This is the book that Hellraiser is based on I love that movie Hellraiser I'm very happy that Clive Barker did the movie because he had written this book So there are some differences if you've seen Hellraiser and then you want to read this book There are some differences. I do think that Much like is it's almost always the case the book is better the book is better because it leaves more to your imagination you can kind of Conjure up in your mind's eye what the scariest or most intense or best Environment situation is the other thing to know is that the character of Pinhead is not called Pinhead in here He's just Hell Priest just so you know Pinhead was a a moniker that came up during the actual filming of it Actually in the book. He has nails in his head not actually pins But during the filming they actually had to downgrade it to pins because the nails were too much I think they ended up being too heavy too challenging to use so they downgraded the pins So originally in the book he has nails in his head Way thicker way more painful. So but this is a masterpiece of horror writing in my opinion a Freakin masterpiece. It is my highest recommendation that everyone read this book if you think you're a horror reader Do it this book is so good The characters I mean it it doesn't leave It doesn't leave a lot of space for the characters to be like super fleshed out But for how little space there is the characters are pretty fleshed out for that It's super. It's a super compact story. It moves. It's got everything you need and when you're done You don't feel like oh, that's it. It's satisfying. It's really good It's really good. And like I said, it's it's even better than that hellraiser And it's not a problem that you would have seen hellraiser and then you go to reading this this book is a whole different experience in contrast to the movie hellraiser and It's outstanding. So Since it's such a short book, I don't really have that much to say about it It's just very well written the amount of detail that's needed is in there and like I said it moves It's engaging. It's it's an outstanding book. So Clyde Barker, man, I've read a decent amount of his books I'm gonna review another one for the next one of these episodes I put out another Clyde Barker book and it kind of goes with this one He's written a lot of books if people know Clyde Barker, you know, I'm talking about he's written a lot of stuff He's I would honestly I would say he's the second most prolific horror writer after Stephen King I mean, that's what I say to people when I talk about Clyde Barker and when people don't know who he is that like flips me out I'm like, you know, no Clyde Barker is do you know who Stephen King is and be like, oh, yeah Well, Clyde Barker is like the second most prolific horror writer So you should probably know who he is because he's done a lot and then I'll kind of tell him like what movies his works are based on Are based on his works and people like oh no way I just kind of do a quick list of like hellraiser night breed Candy man midnight meat train, you know stuff like that. So Yeah, awesome. But anyway Yeah, highly recommend if you can't tell I'm not gonna do like star ratings on this I'm just gonna be like, do I recommend it? Do I not recommend it? But the whole story of this If you don't know the story you it's kind of better not to know what the storyline is going into it Just read it and trust me and like I said, it's super fast. So anyway, thank you everyone for checking this video out Hit that subscribe it can help me a lot hit the notification bell if you want to know whenever I'm dropping videos Which also helps me if you watch them kind of soon after I drop them Comments, let's talk about it. What horror books are you reading? What do you recommend? Are you into Clyde Barker? What have you read of Clyde Barker's your feelings on it? How do you like the hellbound heart all those questions? Anyway, let's talk thumbs ups are cool until next time keep it brutal