Táto séria sa ponára do temných zákutí ľudskej túžby a jej stretnutia s nadprirodzenom. Hádanka otvára bránu nie k rozkoši, ale k pekelným bytostiam posadnutým extrímnymi formami utrpenia. Príbehy skúmajú hranice bolesti a slasti, odhaľujú mrazivé bytosti z inej dimenzie a ich sadistické rituály. Je to fascinujúci, hoci desivý pohľad na to, čo sa skrýva za oponou reality.
Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back—though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay.
Long-beleaguered supernatural private investigator Harry D'Amour and his entourage of mortal sidekicks are lured to the infernal realm to serve as "witness" to what the demon Pinhead calls "my gospels": a succession of gruesome atrocities.