Characters in British Novels of the 20th Century by Author (Study Guide) - Agatha Christie Characters, Clive Barker Characters (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Chapters: Agatha Christie Characters, Clive Barker Characters, Evelyn Waugh Characters, George Eliot Characters, John Buchan Characters, Roald Dahl Characters, Pinhead, Bundle Brent, Immacolata, Matilda Wormwood, Grand High Witch, Richard Hannay, Kirsty Cotton, Parker Pyne, Muggle-Wump, Mr. Wormwood, Tommy and Tuppence, Anthony Blanche, Roly-Poly Bird, Lord Sebastian Flyte, Grandpa Joe, Dinah Morris, Christopher Carrion, Gwendolen Harleth, Hetty Sorrel, Mrs. Wormwood, Superintendent Battle, Colonel Race, Sandy Arbuthnot, Adam Bede, Edward Leithen, John S. Blenkiron, William Boot, Aloysius, Harry D'amour, Malingo, Sir Walter Bullivant, Candy Quackenbush, Peter Pienaar, Butterball Cenobite. Excerpt: Pinhead is a fictional character from the Hellraiser series. Created by Clive Barker and portrayed by Doug Bradley, Pinhead is a prominent figure in the series, sometimes featured as the main antagonist. Pinhead is the leader of the cenobites, formerly human creatures from an extradimensional realm who travel to Earth through the Lament Configuration, and harvest human souls. Depicted as intelligent and articulate, the character was deliberately presented as a departure from the mute or wise-cracking 1980s horror movie villains who preceded him, being based more on Count Dracula. In Hellraiser (1987), Kirsty Cotton unintentionally summons Pinhead and the cenobites, but is spared on condition that she leads the cenobites to her uncle, Frank Cotton, who had escaped them. In Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), it is revealed that the cenobites are followers of the god "Leviathan," and were originally humans who had lost all memory of their prior human lives. Kirsty shows Pinhead a photograph of his former self, causing him to remember. He briefly battles the newly created Channard cenobi...