Started reading Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart as my bus book since it’s fairly travel friendly, I watched Hellraiser fairly young and it did stick with me, but in reading the book instantly I can feel the detailed tightness of Barker’s writing oozing with sensuality and the multi-sensory dictation of pleasure as a complex, almost horrifying sensation. The malaise of the mundane and discontentment padded against this world of extreme pleasure is daunting and captivating even three chapters in.