An exciting new anthology from Pocket Books (Simon and Schuster) that was two years in the making is coming to bookstores. Hellbound Hearts (edited by Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan) gathers together 21 original stories inspired by Clive Barker’s mythology created the novella The Hellbound Heart (which the film Hellraiser is based upon). The book features a brand new foreword by Clive himself, an introduction by the award-winning Stephen Jones and afterword by Doug ‘Pinhead’ Bradley. The contents are as below plus the cover – an original painting by Clive: a Cenobite named especially for the anthology called ‘Vestimenti’ finishes the piece off nicely. Look out for it on September 29^th.

 

Foreword: Clive Barker

Introduction: Raising Hell, Again by Stephen Jones

Prisoners of the Inferno by Peter Atkins

The Cold by Conrad Williams

The Confessor’s Tale by Sarah Pinborough

Hellbound Hollywood by Mick Garris

Mechanisms by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola (illustrated by Mike Mignola)

Every Wrong Turn by Tim Lebbon

The Collector by Kelley Armstrong

Bulimia by Richard Christian Matheson

Orfeo the Damned by Nancy Holder

Our Lord of Quarters by Simon Clark

Wordsworth by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

A Little Piece of Hell by Steve Niles

The Dark Materials Project by Sarah Langan

Demon’s Design by Nicholas Vince

Only The Blind Survive by Yvonne Navarro

Mother’s Ruin by Mark Morris

Sister Cilice by Barbie Wilde

Santos del Infierno by Jeffrey J. Mariotte

The Promise by Nancy Kilpatrick

However…by Gary A. Braunbeck and Lucy A. Snyder

‘Tis Pity He’s Ashore by Chaz Brenchley

Afterword by Doug Bradley

Special Bonus Material: Wordsworth Graphic short story Original Script by Neil Gaiman