NMLP P-005050 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker · Dark Harvest (in Night Visions 3) · 1986

The true first appearance is within Night Visions 3 (Dark Harvest, 1986), the source of the film Hellraiser. The original record's pairing of HarperPaperbacks with 1988 is incorrect: the 1988 standalone was Berkley's Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart, while the HarperPaperbacks standalone is 1991. Any separately titled paperback is first thus, not the first appearance of the text.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-005050 for "The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-005050, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).