Pinhead (The Hellbound Heart)

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Unknown
Alias	Pinhead
Origin	The Hellbound Heart
Occupation	Cenobite
Powers / Skills	Demonic powers Torture methodology Immortality Highly resistant to physical harm Pain immunity
Goals	To kill anyone who opens the puzzle box (mostly succeeded)
Crimes	Serial murder Torture
Type of Villain	Demonic Minion

Pinhead is a minor antagonist in Clive Barker's horror novella, The Hellbound Heart. Unlike his film counterpart, Pinhead had a much smaller role as one of the Lead Cenobite's minions.

Biography

Pinhead's portrayal within the novella is greatly different from his movie counterpart, appearing as a nameless follower of The Engineer alongside three others who in the movie would become Chatterer, Butterball and Deep Throat. While retaining his signature grid with iron pins jabbed at the intersections, in the novella the grid is described as being tattooed rather then sliced on. Likewise, Pinhead's tongue is similarly decorated. Probably the most significant change is the fact that while in the movie series Pinhead is male, in the novella, he is a gender ambiguous being, the clothing covering up his sexual organs. Also of note is the fact that while Pinhead bares a deep and eloquent masculine voice in the movies, the novella's version has a breathy light voice, compared to that of a little girl.

Pinhead makes an appearance within the first chapter along side three other cenobites. They offer Frank Cotton their perverse form of pleasure before departing the room, taking with them the offerings he had laid for them on a shrine and amplifying his senses to maddening levels, leaving him in a state of shock and confusion before taking him to their world. Unlike in the film, it is not he who deals with Kirsty after she solves the puzzle box but her fellow Lead Cenobite, whose lines would be used by Pinhead in Hellraiser, most notably: "No tears, please! It's a waste of good suffering!" as well as a variation of "We will tear your soul apart!". Like the film, Kirsty manages to convince them to let her go in exchange for Frank.

Pinhead appear once more during the novella's last chapter where they tear Frank Cotton apart using hook chains. Afterwards him and his companions disappear, taking Frank away and respecting their agreement with Kristy, leaving the girl to run away.