Talk:The Hellbound Heart

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Crikey! The... purple... prose! The goggles, they do nothing! Can someone please rewrite this in a less hyperbolic style? -- The Anome 10:44, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

There is another problem with the article -- someone has obviously has never read the novella, and is paraphrasing a synopsis of the movie, Hellraiser. I have placed a dispute banner. I have to admit that I have unwittingly contributed to this mess by attempting to edit the "purple prose" without actually having read the novella myself. The differences between The Hellbound Heart and Hellraiser include: I have a copy of the novella and I will read it before gutting this article and starting over from scratch. The history shows that the article was fairly vague, naming only Frank, until 70.242.12.153 extensively changed the Plot Summary and included mention of "Larry" and "his teenaged daughter Kirsty". Canonblack 22:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Frank's brother's name is Rory, not Larry. It was changed to Larry for the movie.
 * Rory and Julia move into a house left to Frank and Rory by their grandmother. It was not Frank's house.  Rory was told that Frank stayed there for a few days or weeks prior to his latest disappearance, but he left no furniture or belongings.  Although Julia expresses misgivings about Frank returning to "claim what is his", Rory explains that it is jointly owned by the two of them and that Frank "has no interest in property".
 * The novella is NOT "the story of a mystical puzzle box". It's the story of the people who come into contact with it.  The box is described, but very little of its history is revealed.
 * Kirsty is not Rory's daughter. She is an old friend of his, an awkward self-defeatist who has harbored a secret crush on him for years.

Plot summary
The plot summary has been overlong for some time. I've restored a briefer version [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hellbound_Heart&direction=next&oldid=43089720[. --Tony 00:54, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I've never read the novel, but I know several things (as described above) in this thread are in fact wrong; I was actually to read the differences between the movie and the book, yet your description is from the movie. This causes the page to be all kinds of confusing - it states plainly that Kirsty is Rory's friend and pines for him and the next paragraph has him named Larry and Kirsty is his daughter.

Reverting it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BlazingOwnager (talk • contribs) 01:02, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I've read through the book, and have made some minor changes to the plot summary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.117.147.222 (talk) 18:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

The Hideous Heart
I don't know this, as I've never read any of Clive Barker's novellas, but it seems to me at least the title of the novella is related to the famous Edgar Allen Poe short story "The Case of the Hideous Heart", or something like that title anyways. Anybody know? 206.53.90.229 (talk) 23:15, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * In case anyone's still wondering, the title that anon is thinking of is probably The Telltale Heart — but there's no evidence yet that the one necessarily inspired the other. 72.72.210.89 (talk) 23:18, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, the author is Edgar Allan Poe. Naaman Brown (talk) 00:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Rory and Kirsty
Let's get this thing with Rory (or Larry) and Kirsty, daughter (or friend resolved).

I'd do it myself but I have only seen the movie. Thanks, 71.139.160.159 (talk) 22:45, 30 April 2012 (UTC)