![]() ![]() Unfortunately for Frank, when the Cenobites finally appear, their mutilated bodies indicate that their "pleasure" is actually found in pain, that they are demonic sadomasochists who intend to subject Frank to an eternity of flesh-destroying fun. After performing numerous favors for unsavory individuals, he finally gains possession of the box, and brings it home to England to open it. He hears of the Lament Configuration, a puzzle box which, if opened, will open a door to the world of the Cenobites, a perverse religious order dedicated to unworldly pleasure. One can only enjoy so many drugs and prostitutes before the pleasure becomes dull and repetitive, so Frank seeks out new avenues through the occult. The quote above is about the novella's antagonist Frank, a hedonist who has spent all of his adult life in search of the most extreme pleasures. ![]() ![]() At least, I assume this doesn't happen often, since The Hellbound Heartis the only splatterpunk story I can ever remember reading. It's not often one picks up a modern splatterpunk book and finds within it a morality tale, especially a tale so opposed to the moral atmosphere of the day. "The doorway was even now opening to pleasures no more than a handful of humans had ever known existed, much less tasted -pleasures which would redefine the parameters of sensation, which would release him from the dull round of desire, seduction and disappointment that had dogged him from late adolescence." ![]()
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