Subject: TP and the Hellbound Heart
From: brackney@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Larry J Brackney)
Date: 1991-05-10, 10:39
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

  Just curious if anyone has noticed some disturbing parallels between
the current TP storyline and Clive Barker's Cenobyte mythos.  Barker's
book - The Hellbound Heart, and later films - Hellraiser and Hellbound
describe a hell ruled by a being known as Leviathan, Lord of the
Labyrinth.  Leviathan's underlings, the cenobytes, are twisted creatures
who think of themselves as explorers of the outer reaches of pain.

  Now this is where it gets interesting...  Humans may gain entrance
to this hell only by solving a puzzle box of maniacal complexity.
Hmmm...

  I was immediately intrigued by the mysterious box in TP, but Earle's
description of the Black Lodge reminded me of Barker's vision of Hell.

For the "hardcore cenobyte enthusiast," Epic comics has released a
series of Hellraiser graphic novels which further expand upon Barker's
mythology.  As it turns out, the entrance to hell is not gained through
the act of solving a puzzle box, but by one's obsession with any
conundrum.  Perhaps by unravelling the mystery of the petroglyph,
Earle will find the pain he is searching for.

L. Brackney
brackney@mn.ecn.purdue.edu