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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Dread""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.1</span> <span>"Dread"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Dread"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"Hell's_Event"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Hell's_Event""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.2</span> <span>"Hell's Event"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Hell's_Event"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"Jacqueline_Ess:_Her_Will_And_Testament"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Jacqueline_Ess:_Her_Will_And_Testament""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.3</span> <span>"Jacqueline Ess: Her Will And Testament"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Jacqueline_Ess:_Her_Will_And_Testament"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"The_Skins_of_the_Fathers"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"The_Skins_of_the_Fathers""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.4</span> <span>"The Skins of the Fathers"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"The_Skins_of_the_Fathers"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"New_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"New_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.5</span> <span>"New Murders in the Rue Morgue"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"New_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Volume_Three" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Volume_Three"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Volume Three</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Volume_Three-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-"Son_of_Celluloid"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Son_of_Celluloid""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.1</span> <span>"Son of Celluloid"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Son_of_Celluloid"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"Rawhead_Rex"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Rawhead_Rex""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.2</span> <span>"Rawhead Rex"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Rawhead_Rex"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"Confessions_of_a_(Pornographer's)_Shroud"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Confessions_of_a_(Pornographer's)_Shroud""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.3</span> <span>"Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Confessions_of_a_(Pornographer's)_Shroud"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"Scape-Goats"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Scape-Goats""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.4</span> <span>"Scape-Goats"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Scape-Goats"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"Human_Remains"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Human_Remains""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.5</span> <span>"Human Remains"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Human_Remains"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Volume_Four" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Volume_Four"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Volume Four</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Volume_Four-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-"The_Inhuman_Condition"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"The_Inhuman_Condition""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.1</span> <span>"The Inhuman Condition"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"The_Inhuman_Condition"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"The_Body_Politic"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"The_Body_Politic""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.2</span> <span>"The Body Politic"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"The_Body_Politic"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"Revelations"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Revelations""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.3</span> <span>"Revelations"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Revelations"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"Down,_Satan!"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Down,_Satan!""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.4</span> <span>"Down, Satan!"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Down,_Satan!"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"The_Age_of_Desire"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"The_Age_of_Desire""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4.5</span> <span>"The Age of Desire"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"The_Age_of_Desire"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Volume_Five" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Volume_Five"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Volume Five</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Volume_Five-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-"The_Forbidden"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"The_Forbidden""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5.1</span> <span>"The Forbidden"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"The_Forbidden"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"The_Madonna"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"The_Madonna""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5.2</span> <span>"The Madonna"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"The_Madonna"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"Babel's_Children"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"Babel's_Children""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5.3</span> <span>"Babel's Children"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"Babel's_Children"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"In_the_Flesh"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"In_the_Flesh""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5.4</span> <span>"In the Flesh"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"In_the_Flesh"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Volume_Six" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Volume_Six"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Volume Six</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Volume_Six-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-"The_Life_of_Death"" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#"The_Life_of_Death""> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6.1</span> <span>"The Life of Death"</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-"The_Life_of_Death"-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-"How_Spoilers_Bleed"" 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title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Books+of+Blood&rft.author=%5B%5BClive+Barker%5D%5D&rft.date=1984%E2%80%931985&rft.pub=%5B%5BSphere+Books%5D%5D+%28UK%29&rft.place=United+Kingdom&rft.series=Books+of+Blood"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Book_of_Blood_Omnibus,_Volumes_1-3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/Book_of_Blood_Omnibus%2C_Volumes_1-3.jpg/220px-Book_of_Blood_Omnibus%2C_Volumes_1-3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Book_of_Blood_Omnibus%2C_Volumes_1-3.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="258" data-file-height="387" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Books of Blood Omnibus, volumes 1–3</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker" title="Clive Barker">Clive Barker</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cover artist</th><td class="infobox-data">Clive Barker</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Series</th><td class="infobox-data">Books of Blood</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">Horror</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sphere_Books" title="Sphere Books">Sphere Books</a> (UK)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1984–1985</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Printing" title="Printing">Print</a> (Hardcover and Paperback)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Books of Blood</b></i> is a series of six <a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">horror fiction</a> <a href="/wiki/Anthologies" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthologies">anthologies</a> collecting original stories written by British <a href="/wiki/Author" title="Author">author</a>, <a href="/wiki/Playwright" title="Playwright">playwright</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Filmmaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Filmmaker">filmmaker</a> <a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker" title="Clive Barker">Clive Barker</a> in 1984 and 1985. Known primarily for writing stage plays beforehand, Barker gained a wider audience and <a href="/wiki/Fanbase" class="mw-redirect" title="Fanbase">fanbase</a> through this anthology series, leading to a successful career as a <a href="/wiki/Novelist" title="Novelist">novelist</a>. Originally presented as six <a href="/wiki/Volume_(bibliography)" title="Volume (bibliography)">volumes</a>, the anthologies were subsequently <a href="/wiki/Republished" class="mw-redirect" title="Republished">re-published</a> in two <a href="/wiki/Omnibus_edition" title="Omnibus edition">omnibus editions</a> containing three volumes each. Each volume contains four, five or six stories. The Volume 1–3 omnibus contained a <a href="/wiki/Foreword" title="Foreword">foreword</a> by Barker's fellow <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpudlian</a> horror writer <a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Campbell" title="Ramsey Campbell">Ramsey Campbell</a>. Author <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a> praised <i>Books of Blood</i>, leading to a quote from him appearing on the <a href="/wiki/First_edition" class="mw-redirect" title="First edition">first US edition</a> of the book: "I have seen the future of horror and his name is Clive Barker." </p><p><i>Books of Blood Volume 6</i> is significant for its story "The Last Illusion" which introduced Barker's <a href="/wiki/Occult_detective_fiction" title="Occult detective fiction">occult detective</a> character <a href="/wiki/Harry_D%27Amour" title="Harry D'Amour">Harry D'Amour</a>. The detective went on to appear in more of Barker's writings, the <i><a href="/wiki/Hellraiser" title="Hellraiser">Hellraiser</a></i> comic book series from <a href="/wiki/Boom!_Studios" title="Boom! Studios">Boom! Studios</a>, and the 1995 film <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_Illusions" title="Lord of Illusions">Lord of Illusions</a></i> (based on "The Last Illusion" and adapted by Barker himself). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Clive Barker's <a href="/wiki/Tagline" title="Tagline">tagline</a> for <i>Books of Blood</i> was: "Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red." The opening story, "The Book of Blood", introduces the premise of the anthology series by revealing that a fake <a href="/wiki/Psychic" title="Psychic">psychic</a> is attacked one night by genuine <a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">ghosts</a> and spirits who decide to make him a true messenger by writing stories into his flesh. This makes him a "Book of Blood" and the narration then invites the reader to read these stories. The UK editions of Volume 6 close with a story, "On Jerusalem Street", that features a man who pursues the fake psychic in order to <a href="/wiki/Skinning" title="Skinning">skin</a> him and take his Book of Blood. Thus, a <a href="/wiki/Framing_story" class="mw-redirect" title="Framing story">framing story</a> is created around the anthologies. </p><p>The stories range in <a href="/wiki/Literary_genre" title="Literary genre">genres</a>. Some are traditional horror, some are described by Barker as "<a href="/wiki/Dark_fantasy" title="Dark fantasy">dark fantasy</a>," some are <a href="/wiki/Comedy_horror" title="Comedy horror">comical</a>, and "The Last Illusion" is notable for being a mixture of horror and <a href="/wiki/Noir_fiction" title="Noir fiction">noir</a> while also introducing the <a href="/wiki/Occult_detective_fiction" title="Occult detective fiction">occult detective</a> <a href="/wiki/Harry_D%27Amour" title="Harry D'Amour">Harry D'Amour</a>. A common thread is that most of the stories feature <a href="/wiki/Everyman" title="Everyman">everyday people</a> in contemporary settings who become involved in violent, mysterious, and/or <a href="/wiki/Supernatural" title="Supernatural">supernatural</a> events. Barker has stated in <i><a href="/wiki/Faces_of_Fear_(interview_book)" title="Faces of Fear (interview book)">Faces of Fear</a></i> that an inspiration for the <i>Books of Blood</i> came when he read <i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Forces_(book)" title="Dark Forces (book)">Dark Forces</a></i> in the early 1980s and realised that a horror story <a href="/wiki/Anthology" title="Anthology">anthology</a> didn't need to have narrow themes, consistent tone or restrictions to be considered a proper collection. Instead, the stories could range wildly in genre and tone, from the humorous to the truly horrific. </p><p>Volumes I-III are sold as "The Books of Blood", Volume IV is sold as "The Inhuman Condition", Volume V is sold as "In the Flesh", and Volume VI is sold as "Cabal", which includes four or five additional short stories, depending on the edition. </p><p>For some editions, Clive Barker illustrated the book covers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stories">Stories</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Volume_One">Volume One</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Volume One"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Book_of_Blood""><span id=".22The_Book_of_Blood.22"></span>"The Book of Blood"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: "The Book of Blood""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first story of Volume 1 acts as a frame story to the <i>Books of Blood</i> anthology series (along with "On Jerusalem Street", the closing story presented in UK editions of Volume 6). </p><p>The story mentions that the <a href="/wiki/Afterlife" title="Afterlife">afterlife</a> involves "highways of the dead" that sometimes intersect with the living world. A <a href="/wiki/Psychic_researcher" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychic researcher">psychic researcher</a>, Mary Florescu, has employed a young <a href="/wiki/Medium_(spirituality)" class="mw-redirect" title="Medium (spirituality)">medium</a> named Simon McNeal to <a href="/wiki/Paranormal_investigation" class="mw-redirect" title="Paranormal investigation">investigate</a> a <a href="/wiki/Haunted_house" title="Haunted house">haunted house</a>. Unknown to Florescu, who is attracted to McNeal, the man is a fraud. He fakes <a href="/wiki/Vision_(spirituality)" title="Vision (spirituality)">visions</a> as he has done many times before, pretending to hear names and stories told to him from beyond the mortal world; but this time ghosts assault him, carving names and "minute words" into his flesh, leaving him his body covered in stories – the stories of this anthology series. Florescu nurses the young man and begins transcribing his tales, thinking of him as a "Book of Blood" and her as his only translator. </p><p>This prologue, along with closing story "On Jerusalem Street" from Volume 6, was adapted and directed twice. First for the film <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Blood" title="Book of Blood">Book of Blood</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Harrison_(director)" title="John Harrison (director)">John Harrison</a> and then for the 2020 Brannon Braga film <i><a href="/wiki/Books_of_Blood_(film)" title="Books of Blood (film)">Books of Blood</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Midnight_Meat_Train""><span id=".22The_Midnight_Meat_Train.22"></span>"The Midnight Meat Train"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: "The Midnight Meat Train""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Office worker Leon Kaufman has recently moved to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, a place that he has long idolized as "The Palace of Delights." Since arriving, he has become disillusioned, seeing the dirt and depravity in a city like any other. Meanwhile, a man named Mahogany is killing people in <a href="/wiki/Subway_trains" class="mw-redirect" title="Subway trains">subway trains</a>, identifying as a "Butcher" in pursuit of "fresh meat." Kaufman falls asleep on a late-night <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Subway" title="New York City Subway">subway</a> train to Far Rockaway, Queens, and awakens to discover that Mahogany has killed four passengers in the neighboring car and the <a href="/wiki/Train_conductor" class="mw-redirect" title="Train conductor">train conductor</a> is cooperating with him. After Kaufman kills Mahogany in self-defense, the train arrives at a secret station where ancient, withered humans board and <a href="/wiki/Human_cannibalism" title="Human cannibalism">consume the bodies</a>. The creatures, the "City Fathers," have been the secret rulers of New York for centuries, the people who founded and initially built the city. They eventually present Kaufman to the incomprehensible "Father of Fathers," who has lived there since before the arrival of the <a href="/wiki/Human_migration_into_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Human migration into the Americas">first humans in America</a>. One of them pulls out Kaufman's tongue, stating that he will "serve in silence," and recruits him as their new Butcher tasked with bringing them fresh meat. Kaufman passes out as the conductor announces the next destination as "home." Kaufman is later awakened by the conductor in a secret, pristine subway station and helped off the train as <a href="/wiki/Crime_scene_cleanup" title="Crime scene cleanup">cleaning crews</a> come on to cover up the previous night's events. The conductor states that he has much to learn before he begins his job that evening and presents him to the cleaners, who look at him with reverence. He exits the station and goes onto the streets in the early morning as the city wakes up and comes alive. He falls to his knees, kisses the ground, and swears his loyalty to the city. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/The_Midnight_Meat_Train" title="The Midnight Meat Train">film of the same name</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Bradley_Cooper" title="Bradley Cooper">Bradley Cooper</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vinnie_Jones" title="Vinnie Jones">Vinnie Jones</a> was released on 1 August 2008. The film dramatically expands the book in many ways, most notably by introducing additional characters such as Maya, Leon's girlfriend, and further events outside the main plot. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Yattering_and_Jack""><span id=".22The_Yattering_and_Jack.22"></span>"The Yattering and Jack"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: "The Yattering and Jack""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jack Polo is a <a href="/wiki/Gherkin" class="mw-redirect" title="Gherkin">gherkin</a> importer who is haunted by a minor demon called the Yattering. The demon is commanded to haunt Jack by <a href="/wiki/Beelzebub" title="Beelzebub">Beelzebub</a>, because one of Jack's ancestors reneged on a pact made with the demon lord. The Yattering is frustrated when its determined efforts to drive Jack insane are answered with good cheer and apparent obliviousness. Unknown to the Yattering, Jack is purposely ignoring the demon in order to simultaneously frustrate it and maintain his own sanity. The Yattering subjects him to increasingly severe torments, including killing his cats and terrorizing his family, but these efforts all fail. Eventually Jack tricks the Yattering into violating its orders, allowing Jack to take advantage of a loophole and make the Yattering his slave. </p><p>In contrast to the other stories, this one is presented as a comedic tale. Barker wrote a <a href="/wiki/Screenplay" title="Screenplay">screenplay</a> adapting this story for an episode of the horror TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_the_Darkside" title="Tales from the Darkside">Tales from the Darkside</a></i> (Season 4, episode 7; 8 November 1987). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Pig_Blood_Blues""><span id=".22Pig_Blood_Blues.22"></span>"Pig Blood Blues"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: "Pig Blood Blues""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Former policeman Redman starts working in a <a href="/wiki/Borstal" title="Borstal">borstal</a>, where he uncovers a deadly secret involving a boy named Lacey. Lacey claims that a missing boy named Henessey is not missing, but is present as a ghost. As Redman investigates, he finds that a giant <a href="/wiki/Pig" title="Pig">sow</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Sty" title="Sty">sty</a> on the grounds may be <a href="/wiki/Spirit_possession" title="Spirit possession">possessed</a> by Hennesey's ghost. Lacey tells Redman that he fears he will be fed to the sow, and Redman discovers the borstal's other staff and students preparing a ritual sacrifice for the boy. Redman is able to rescue him when the sty accidentally burns, but is then captured and presented to the sow in turn, where he is eaten alive by a now-possessed Lacey at the sow's command – a dark reversal on the lustful feelings Redman was harbouring towards Lacey. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Sex,_Death_and_Starshine""><span id=".22Sex.2C_Death_and_Starshine.22"></span>"Sex, Death and Starshine"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: "Sex, Death and Starshine""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Terry Calloway is directing <i><a href="/wiki/Twelfth_Night" title="Twelfth Night">Twelfth Night</a></i> in a run-down theatre. He is having an affair with his <a href="/wiki/Leading_lady" class="mw-redirect" title="Leading lady">leading lady</a>, Diane Duvall, and hopes her <a href="/wiki/Soap_opera" title="Soap opera">soap opera</a> fame will bring in a big audience but also considers her a poor actress. A mysterious masked man, Mr. Lichfield, expresses dissatisfaction with Diane's casting as <a href="/wiki/Viola_(Twelfth_Night)" title="Viola (Twelfth Night)">Viola</a>. On the day of the final rehearsal, Lichfield states that his wife, Constantia, will play the role on opening night. Diane removes Lichfield's mask to reveal him as an <a href="/wiki/Lich" title="Lich">animated corpse</a>. Lichfield kisses Diane, and she slips into a coma. Constantia takes over the role of Viola. Following Diane's "recovery", Terry has sex with her and realizes she is now <a href="/wiki/Undead" title="Undead">undead</a>, just before she kills him. The play opens to a packed house. After the performance, the actors realize the audience consists entirely of ghosts and reanimated dead. The theatre <a href="/wiki/Trustee" title="Trustee">trustee</a>, newly-dead Tallulah, burns down the theatre and every living player is killed. Several of the actors and Terry then join Mr. Lichfield and Constantia on the road, becoming a <a href="/wiki/Repertory_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Repertory company">repertory company</a> of the undead. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""In_the_Hills,_the_Cities""><span id=".22In_the_Hills.2C_the_Cities.22"></span>"In the Hills, the Cities"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: "In the Hills, the Cities""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In an isolated rural area of <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, two entire cities, Popolac and Podujevo, create massive communal creatures by <a href="/wiki/Human_pyramid" title="Human pyramid">binding together the bodies of their citizens</a>. Almost 40,000 people walk as the body of a single giant as tall as a skyscraper. This ritual occurs every ten years, but this time things go wrong and the Podujevo giant collapses, horribly killing tens of thousands of citizens. In shock, the entire population of Popolac goes mad and becomes the giant they are strapped into. Popolac wanders the hills aimlessly. By nightfall, many of the people who make up the giant die from exhaustion, but the giant continues walking. Mick and Judd, two gay men on honeymoon in the area, come upon the smashed bodies of the Podujevans in a ravine awash with blood. A local man tries to steal their car to catch up with Popolac and reason with it before it collapses and destroys the people who compose it. The man explains the truth of the situation to Mick and Judd, but they do not believe his story. They seek shelter at a remote farm, where Popolac blunders into the farmhouse, accidentally killing Judd. Mick and the elderly couple who own the farmhouse are driven mad with fear. Mick wants to join Popolac. He climbs up the tower of ropes and bodies, and is carried away as it walks into the hills. </p><p>A line from this story, "stale incense, old sweat, and lies," appears in the song "Sin" on the album <i><a href="/wiki/Pretty_Hate_Machine" title="Pretty Hate Machine">Pretty Hate Machine</a></i> by the American <a href="/wiki/Industrial_band" class="mw-redirect" title="Industrial band">industrial band</a> <a href="/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails" title="Nine Inch Nails">Nine Inch Nails</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Volume_Two">Volume Two</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Volume Two"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Dread""><span id=".22Dread.22"></span>"Dread"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: "Dread""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Steve, a young university student, becomes acquainted with an older classmate named Quaid, an intellectual who has a morbid fascination with dread. Quaid reveals to Steve that he kidnapped a <a href="/wiki/Vegetarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Vegetarian">vegetarian</a> classmate of theirs and imprisoned her in a room with merely beef for sustenance, only releasing her when she finally overcame her dread of eating meat to prevent <a href="/wiki/Starvation" title="Starvation">starvation</a>; she eats the meat even though it has <a href="/wiki/Food_spoilage" title="Food spoilage">spoiled</a>. Steve becomes Quaid's next candidate for his experiments, held captive in a dark, silent room, forcing him to relive a childhood period of deafness that terrified him. Steve is driven insane by this forced <a href="/wiki/Sensory_deprivation" title="Sensory deprivation">sensory deprivation</a> and eventually escapes. Steve then happens into a homeless shelter where he is mistaken for a drug-addicted vagrant and is given new clothes and shoes, but these don't fit him well. He is mad, pale with shock, and his lips are red and chapped from dehydration. Later, Steve steals a fire axe from the shelter and breaks into Quaid's home. Quaid's experiments, all along, were to try to help him understand the nature of fear in order to cure his own <a href="/wiki/Coulrophobia" class="mw-redirect" title="Coulrophobia">coulrophobia</a>, but he is ironically butchered by Steve, whose ghastly appearance, ill-fitting clothes, and over-sized shoes have given him the appearance of a clown. </p><p>This story has been made into a <a href="/wiki/Dread_(film)" title="Dread (film)">film</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Rathbone" title="Jackson Rathbone">Jackson Rathbone</a> playing Steve. The film diverges from the short story and introduces new characters, but retains some basic concepts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Hell's_Event""><span id=".22Hell.27s_Event.22"></span>"Hell's Event"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: "Hell's Event""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Every one hundred years, during an annual <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> marathon, <a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a> sends one of his representatives to compete against (unsuspecting) human runners. If Satan's minion wins, he gets to rule the Earth. An athlete taking part in the event, Joel, realizes the actual stakes of the race when the other runners begin to fall, ravaged by some unseen beast. A <a href="/wiki/Satanist" class="mw-redirect" title="Satanist">satanist</a> politician, Gregory, has made a bargain with Hell on the outcome of the race. Before he can win, Joel engages in a struggle with Hell's runner, who bites off his face. As they struggle, the last surviving human runner makes it to the finish line and Hell loses once again. Gregory is punished for his overconfidence by being gruesomely slain. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Jacqueline_Ess:_Her_Will_And_Testament""><span id=".22Jacqueline_Ess:_Her_Will_And_Testament.22"></span>"Jacqueline Ess: Her Will And Testament"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will And Testament""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jacqueline Ess, a housewife struggling with <a href="/wiki/Depression_(mood)" title="Depression (mood)">depression</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boredom" title="Boredom">ennui</a>, attempts <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a> and is found by her husband. She recovers only to find that she has an ability to manipulate people's flesh and bodies. Disturbed by his attempts at sedating her, and by his lack of sympathy and understanding of her condition, Jacqueline kills her therapist and then causes her husband's death by willing their bodies to tear apart or fold in on themselves. She temporarily finds peace with a man named Oliver Vassi, whose testimonies make up part of the text. After an unspecified amount of time, she leaves him in order to pursue a rich and powerful man, Titus Penifer, in the hopes of learning from him "how to use power."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their relationship continues despite his inadequacy as a lover, until he attempts to break up after being blackmailed by an employee. Jacqueline kills the extortioner in cold blood and escapes, while Titus grows further obsessed with her and tracks her down. After having her imprisoned, he begs her to kill him. Jacqueline comes to the realisation that all the men in her life, with the exception of Vassi, have used her for their own interests, and refuses to murder Titus. Instead, she warps his body into that of an animal, and one of his bodyguards shoots him in disgust. Vassi manages to track Jacqueline down in Amsterdam, where she has become a <a href="/wiki/Prostitute" class="mw-redirect" title="Prostitute">prostitute</a> whose clients only survive one night with her. She is shown to be losing control of her powers, and when she is reunited with her old lover they embrace each other and willingly die together. </p><p>This story is also published in the book <i>I Shudder at Your Touch</i> as well as in "Behold! Oddities, Curiosities & Undefinable Wonders". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Skins_of_the_Fathers""><span id=".22The_Skins_of_the_Fathers.22"></span>"The Skins of the Fathers"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: "The Skins of the Fathers""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After his car breaks down in <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>, a man named Davidson witnesses a bizarre parade of monsters. He learns creatures <a href="/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)" title="Hybrid (biology)">mated</a> with a woman in a nearby town six years before and now wish to reclaim <a href="/wiki/Aaron" title="Aaron">Aaron</a>, the child she bore. The woman's abusive alcoholic husband knows of the creatures and that they are mostly benevolent, but wants to take revenge on them for impregnating his wife. It is implied that all <a href="/wiki/Homo_sapiens_sapiens" class="mw-redirect" title="Homo sapiens sapiens">modern humans</a> originally came to be as a result of similar relationships between these creatures and primordial women, but over time male humans drove the creatures to the brink of extinction. Davidson reaches the town, where a <a href="/wiki/Posse_comitatus" title="Posse comitatus">posse</a> of gun-toting locals are eager to slay the monsters. After a violent confrontation in which the townsfolk manage to kill one of the largest creatures along with Aaron, the remaining creatures vanish and arrange for Davidson and a few survivors to become trapped in <a href="/wiki/Quicksand" title="Quicksand">quicksand</a>, which then hardens when they are half-buried. Trapped, they are left to die in the burning desert heat. </p><p>The idea of a group of people sinking in quicksand which then hardens around them was later used by Barker in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_Illusions" title="Lord of Illusions">Lord of Illusions</a>.</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""New_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue""><span id=".22New_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue.22"></span>"New Murders in the Rue Morgue"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: "New Murders in the Rue Morgue""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lewis is a 73-year-old man who goes to <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> after his friend, Phillipe, is arrested for butchering a young woman. After insisting that an <a href="/wiki/Orangutan" title="Orangutan">orangutan</a> committed the murder, Phillipe commits suicide in his cell. Lewis does not believe the story until he sees the primate firsthand. The beast is dressed like a person, completely shaved, and wields a razor. Lewis learns Philippe, a notorious eccentric, raised the animal himself as a strange experiment based on the <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> story "<a href="/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue" title="The Murders in the Rue Morgue">The Murders in the Rue Morgue</a>". Despairing at the fact others seem unable to see the orangutan as the animal it is, Lewis throws himself into the <a href="/wiki/Seine" title="Seine">Seine</a>, as the orangutan continues to present and live as a human. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Volume_Three">Volume Three</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Volume Three"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Son_of_Celluloid""><span id=".22Son_of_Celluloid.22"></span>"Son of Celluloid"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: "Son of Celluloid""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An escaped convict dies behind a film screen while hiding from the police. Over the months following his death, a cancerous <a href="/wiki/Tumour" class="mw-redirect" title="Tumour">tumour</a> in the convict's body gains sentience from the strong emotions of the cinema's audiences and comes to life. After one night's show, the creature hunts down several patrons remaining in the cinema, projecting images of <a href="/wiki/John_Wayne" title="John Wayne">John Wayne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe" title="Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a> as vivid hallucinations to lure them in and consume them, but it is seemingly destroyed in turn by the cinema's usher. Some time later, the usher, having tracked down a girl who escaped after being taken over by the creature, confronts it with acid and kills it once and for all. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Rawhead_Rex""><span id=".22Rawhead_Rex.22"></span>"Rawhead Rex"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: "Rawhead Rex""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During an unusually warm summer in rural <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>, the ancient monster Rawhead, a nine-foot tall malevolent humanoid, is accidentally awakened from his underground imprisonment. Rawhead goes on a rampage through a local village, killing and eating several townsfolk, corrupting the local <a href="/wiki/Verger" title="Verger">verger</a> to serve him and fatally wounding the village's <a href="/wiki/Vicar" title="Vicar">vicar</a>, Reverend Coot. The vicar lives long enough to instruct local man Ron Milton, father of one of Rawhead's victims, to find a <a href="/wiki/Amulet" title="Amulet">talisman</a> within the church to fight the beast; the talisman depicts a pregnant woman, Rawhead's <a href="/wiki/Antithesis" title="Antithesis">antithesis</a> and the only thing he fears. While Rawhead attempts to burn down the village, Milton uses the talisman to stall him long enough for the enraged villagers to overpower and kill him. </p><p>"Rawhead Rex" has a structure similar to <i><a href="/wiki/Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a></i> or <i><a href="/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World" title="The Thing from Another World">The Thing from Another World</a></i>, but uses a rural setting. The story was later turned into the film <i><a href="/wiki/Rawhead_Rex_(film)" title="Rawhead Rex (film)">Rawhead Rex</a></i> (1986), which Barker wrote but then disowned after being dissatisfied with the direction and overall production. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Confessions_of_a_(Pornographer's)_Shroud""><span id=".22Confessions_of_a_.28Pornographer.27s.29_Shroud.22"></span>"Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: "Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ronnie is a rule-abiding Catholic falsely implicated by the <a href="/wiki/Mafia" title="Mafia">Mafia</a> to be the leader of a <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornography</a> cartel. After killing two mobsters in revenge, Ronnie is brutally tortured and murdered by the Mafia, after which he manifests as a ghost. Animating the shroud covering his body in the morgue, he takes revenge on the rest of his enemies. After being chased by the animated shroud, the mob boss primarily responsible for Ronnie's ordeal runs into his home, only to find his wife cheating on him with his assistant, so he shoots both of them dead. In a gory climax, the ghost enters the mouth of the mob boss and turns him inside out. Afterwards, the ghost uses his remaining few moments on Earth to knock on the door of a priest, wanting to receive <a href="/wiki/Last_rites" title="Last rites">last rites</a>, but the priest is too busy photographing a naked girl and does not answer. </p><p>The story is written as a <a href="/wiki/Black_comedy" title="Black comedy">black comedy</a>, revolving around the visual gag of a real ghost actually taking on the form of a floating bedsheet. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Scape-Goats""><span id=".22Scape-Goats.22"></span>"Scape-Goats"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: "Scape-Goats""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Yacht" title="Yacht">yacht</a> is stranded on the beach of a deserted island that is located at a point in the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a> where converging undersea currents bring all the human bodies of sailors drowned at sea. The hundreds of bodies littering the ocean floor, unfortunately for the stranded crew, are not as dead as they should be. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Human_Remains""><span id=".22Human_Remains.22"></span>"Human Remains"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: "Human Remains""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A young bisexual prostitute is hired by an <a href="/wiki/Archaeologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaeologist">archaeologist</a>. During the course of the night, he stumbles into the bathroom to discover a Roman-esque statue of a man lying in the bath. Over the next few weeks, he has the sense of being haunted by a <a href="/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger" title="Doppelgänger">doppelgänger</a>. At the same time, his mind and body transforms; he becomes cold and lifeless, no longer needing to eat or sleep. He finally discovers his doppelgänger, the statue from the bath, at his father's grave, crying in sorrow, as he is unmoved. It becomes clear that the doppelgänger has become more convincing as a human than he is, so he wanders away, allowing it to continue living in his persona. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Volume_Four">Volume Four</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Volume Four"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Published and sold as "The Inhuman Condition". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Inhuman_Condition""><span id=".22The_Inhuman_Condition.22"></span>"The Inhuman Condition"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: "The Inhuman Condition""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A young man named Karney and his friends beat up a vagrant for fun. Karney steals a strange knotted piece of string he finds on the vagrant. A keen fan of puzzles, Karney undoes the knots that evening, not knowing that, in doing so, he is releasing a succession of demons who proceed to kill off his friends. The demons seem progressively more advanced, appearing to evolve with each knot. When he realizes what he has done, Karney has to seek out the vagrant for help. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Body_Politic""><span id=".22The_Body_Politic.22"></span>"The Body Politic"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: "The Body Politic""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a bizarre version of a revolution, it appears that all human beings' hands have their own <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> and are not happy at being ordered what to do by their owners. The hands of a factory worker named Charlie plan to lead the revolution. Charlie's hands even have their own personalities, with Left being more cautious and Right being very determined and even proclaiming itself a <a href="/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah">Messiah</a>. Right – against Charlie's own wishes – chops off Left, who scuttles away to summon other hands to do the same before returning to rescue Right, starting a violent revolution of human limbs. </p><p>This story was later adapted and used, in part, for the film <i><a href="/wiki/Quicksilver_Highway" title="Quicksilver Highway">Quicksilver Highway</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Revelations""><span id=".22Revelations.22"></span>"Revelations"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: "Revelations""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A woman named Virginia is unwillingly taken on a tour through the U.S. by her unfeeling husband, a preacher named John Gyer. They stay at a motel which is visited by the ghosts of Buck and Sadie, a married couple who stayed there thirty years before. In the same room, Sadie murdered Buck and was subsequently put to death for the murder. Buck and Sadie find that Virginia has the ability to both see and hear them. Meanwhile, a scuffle ensues when John discovers their driver, Earl, has been giving Virginia pills to help her deal with her anxiety issues. While looking for Earl to confront him about the pills, John finds the married driver in bed with the daughter of the motel owner, Laura-May. Virginia ends up getting her hands on the same murder weapon used by Sadie thirty years prior, which Laura-May has kept as a souvenir. Virginia uses the gun to try to kill Buck's ghost, who managed partial materialization in order to attempt to <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a> her, but the bullet goes through him and finds its way into John's throat, killing him. Virginia contemplates suicide, but Sadie's ghost advises her to <a href="/wiki/Insanity_plea" class="mw-redirect" title="Insanity plea">plead insanity</a>. While being taken in by the local sheriff, someone asks her why she did it. Virginia answers "the Devil made me do it" while gazing at the moon with "the craziest smile she (can) muster". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Down,_Satan!""><span id=".22Down.2C_Satan.21.22"></span>"Down, Satan!"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: "Down, Satan!""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The shortest story of the collection relates the tale of a wealthy middle-aged businessman, Gregorius, who becomes depressed when he believes <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> has deserted him, and he comes up with a plan to build a <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a> on Earth to summon Satan, believing that God will then sweep him (Gregorius) out of Satan's clutches and into his heavenly fold. In his vast Satanic Cathedral, Gregorious soon loses sight of his original intention of attracting God's attention, and is captured after torturing hundreds of people to death in the well-equipped torture chambers. It is deliberately left ambiguous whether Gregorius went insane, or if he really did succeed in tempting Satan into taking residence in his own personal Hell. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Age_of_Desire""><span id=".22The_Age_of_Desire.22"></span>"The Age of Desire"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: "The Age of Desire""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A private laboratory runs experiments on volunteers to investigate the <a href="/wiki/Libido" title="Libido">libido</a> and try to develop a chemical <a href="/wiki/Aphrodisiac" title="Aphrodisiac">aphrodisiac</a>. One of the experiments goes wrong, when a man suddenly goes insane with lust. His perpetual state of arousal erodes his respect for <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morality</a> or the law. He rapes, murders, and mutilates one of the scientists and then escapes to cause wanton mayhem, eventually burning himself out and dying. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Volume_Five">Volume Five</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Volume Five"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Published in the United States as <i>In the Flesh</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Forbidden""><span id=".22The_Forbidden.22"></span>"The Forbidden"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: "The Forbidden""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Helen is a university student doing a <a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">thesis</a> on <a href="/wiki/Graffiti" title="Graffiti">graffiti</a> who selects a run-down estate as a focus for her study. She notices disturbing graffiti that references an <a href="/wiki/Urban_legend" title="Urban legend">urban legend</a> called the <a href="/wiki/Candyman_(character)" title="Candyman (character)">Candyman</a>. Further inquiries lead her to believe this is connected with recent murders and mutilations, although the locals are reluctant to discuss the incidents. She eventually encounters the Candyman himself. </p><p>This story was later adapted into the film <i><a href="/wiki/Candyman_(1992_film)" title="Candyman (1992 film)">Candyman</a></i> in 1992. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Madonna""><span id=".22The_Madonna.22"></span>"The Madonna"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: "The Madonna""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A man named Jerry is trying to talk a local shady businessman into financing the redevelopment of an old swimming pool complex. However, the pool has some mysterious inhabitants in the form of nude teenage girls who flee should Jerry or his would-be financial backer encounter them. Curiosity leads Jerry and the businessman to explore the complex and they separately discover a swimming pool in the centre. It is unlike the other pools in the building in that it is full, glows with a strange light, and appears to be inhabited by some misshapen life-form: the Madonna. While the businessman flees and mutilates himself in horror before falling into the Thames and drowning, Jerry stays and sleeps with one of the girls, returning home to wake up the following morning and discover he has been transformed into a woman. When he returns to the complex to find it being demolished, he dives into the pool to join the girls and the Madonna within. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Babel's_Children""><span id=".22Babel.27s_Children.22"></span>"Babel's Children"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: "Babel's Children""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A young woman named Vanessa Jape happens across a secluded compound in which a group of elderly scientists and scholars use their great minds to determine the outcome of major world events. After living there for many years in seclusion, their decisions have deteriorated and are now based on games of chance. When Vanessa and the men seek to flee the compound, they experience a car accident; all the elders are killed with the exception of one who refused to go along. Vanessa returns to the compound, forced to participate in the games of chance with the survivor until replacements can be found. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""In_the_Flesh""><span id=".22In_the_Flesh.22"></span>"In the Flesh"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: "In the Flesh""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A prison inmate named Cleve gets a new cellmate, a mysterious young man called Billy, who admits that he committed a crime with the sole intention of coming to this particular prison. Billy believes he has been summoned there by his grandfather Tait, a supposedly powerful sorcerer who was buried in the prison after his execution for murder many years before. Billy's efforts to summon Tait's spirit cause Cleve to be haunted by dreams of a <a href="/wiki/Purgatory" title="Purgatory">purgatory</a> for murderers, where killers are obliged to spend some portion of their afterlife in a replica of the scene of their crime. Later, Billy vanishes from his cell. His grandfather's coffin is exhumed and found to contain Billy curled up next to his grandfather's corpse. Once released, Cleve finds his travels to purgatory have left him able to hear when others have thoughts of murder. He becomes disillusioned with humanity and becomes a <a href="/wiki/Heroin" title="Heroin">heroin</a> addict to suppress his newfound powers. Cleve later commits a murder himself and is shot dead by the police. He spends an indeterminate amount of time in his own purgatory, then discovers escape is possible via <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Volume_Six">Volume Six</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Volume Six"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several of these stories are also published in <i><a href="/wiki/Cabal_(novella)" title="Cabal (novella)">Cabal</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Life_of_Death""><span id=".22The_Life_of_Death.22"></span>"The Life of Death"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: "The Life of Death""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following a brush with cancer and a subsequent <a href="/wiki/Hysterectomy" title="Hysterectomy">hysterectomy</a>, a woman named Elaine becomes fascinated with a church that is being demolished. She encounters a cheerfully morbid man with skeletal features named Kavanagh, who shares her fascination. The demolition soon reveals a tomb of <a href="/wiki/Bubonic_plague" title="Bubonic plague">plague</a> victims that had been fermenting for centuries, and Elaine breaks in at night to see the bodies. Later, when her friends begin to die off and the police come after her, Elaine takes refuge with Kavanagh, who she firmly believes is really <a href="/wiki/Personifications_of_death" title="Personifications of death">Death</a>. Kavanagh, a <a href="/wiki/Serial_killer" title="Serial killer">serial killer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Necrophile" class="mw-redirect" title="Necrophile">necrophile</a>, strangles and rapes Elaine. As her soul flees her body, Elaine feels a sick sort of glee when she realizes that Kavanagh is now the carrier of the plague she contracted in the tomb, and will spread it far and wide. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""How_Spoilers_Bleed""><span id=".22How_Spoilers_Bleed.22"></span>"How Spoilers Bleed"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: "How Spoilers Bleed""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several European <a href="/wiki/Mercenary" title="Mercenary">mercenaries</a>, led by a cold-hearted man named Locke, have bought land in the jungles of <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a> that is inhabited by a tribe of <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Basin" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon Basin">Amazonian</a> natives. When the tribe refuse to leave, one of Locke's cohorts impulsively and accidentally shoots a native child dead. The elder of the tribe puts a curse on the men which strikes them down one by one with a gruesome condition that makes their bodies incredibly delicate; a mote of dust can slice their skin open, the soles of their feet crack when they stand, etc. After his men die off, Locke returns to the tribe to beg for forgiveness. However, when he gets there, the tribe has been massacred by some of his other colleagues. Locke begins to suffer the symptoms of the deadly curse just as he realizes there is now no way of having it removed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""Twilight_at_the_Towers""><span id=".22Twilight_at_the_Towers.22"></span>"Twilight at the Towers"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: "Twilight at the Towers""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A British spy named Ballard stationed in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> meets with a <a href="/wiki/KGB" title="KGB">KGB</a> counterpart named Mironenko. After their meeting, Mironenko disappears. As Ballard investigates, he witnesses a vicious mauling, which in turn, leads him to discover that he and Mironenko are both <a href="/wiki/Werewolf" title="Werewolf">werewolves</a>, trained by each agency to defeat the other. Both governments raid their meeting place, causing Mironenko to transform fully. Ballard runs and wakes up in a fellow operative's house. Ballard's rival, Suckling, arrives and kills the agent, only to be killed by the transformed Ballard. Ballard seeks Mironenko, and finds him reading from the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy Bible">Holy Bible</a> to a group of werewolves. The passages he has chosen strongly imply that Mironenko believes God wants them to rule over humankind. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""The_Last_Illusion""><span id=".22The_Last_Illusion.22"></span>"The Last Illusion"</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: "The Last Illusion""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The story begins when an illusionist named Swann is killed backstage by one of his own tricks, with several swords falling on him. Before his death, Swann gives his wife Dorothea a letter stating she must cremate his body immediately before enemies take action. Believing there are unseen dangers at play, Dorothea hires <a href="/wiki/Harry_D%27Amour" title="Harry D'Amour">Harry D'Amour</a> to guard the body, having read in newspapers that the private investigator seemingly encountered supernatural forces during a case in Brooklyn. D'Amour learns that the illusionist once made a deal with demons in order to possess actual magical power. With the assistance of Swann's underling Valentin, secretly a demon himself, D'Amour protects Swann's body and cremates it. A demon called Butterfield tells D'Amour that he is now marked as an enemy of the forces of Hell. </p><p>This story was the debut of Harry D'Amour, who would appear in other Clive Barker writings and eventually encounter Barker's popular creation the Hell Priest (<a href="/wiki/Pinhead_(Hellraiser)" title="Pinhead (Hellraiser)">Pinhead</a>). This short story was later adapted by Barker himself into the 1995 film <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_Illusions" title="Lord of Illusions">Lord of Illusions</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id=""On_Jerusalem_Street"_(a_postscript)"><span id=".22On_Jerusalem_Street.22_.28a_postscript.29"></span>"On Jerusalem Street" (a postscript)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: "On Jerusalem Street" (a postscript)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Only included in some UK editions of the <i>Books of Blood</i>, this tale is a sequel to "The Book of Blood" from Volume One, creating a framing story. </p><p>Wyburd is hired to obtain the stories of Simon McNeal, the Book of Blood, for a collector. He captures McNeal and skins him. Later, the skin bleeds and won't stop, finally drowning Wyburd. He ends up on the highways of the dead, where he tells his own story. </p><p>This story, along with the prologue from Volume One, was adapted and directed twice: first for the film <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Blood" title="Book of Blood">Book of Blood</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Harrison_(director)" title="John Harrison (director)">John Harrison</a>, and then for the 2020 Brannon Braga film <i><a href="/wiki/Books_of_Blood_(film)" title="Books of Blood (film)">Books of Blood</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a> as "the future of horror".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book won both the <a href="/wiki/British_Fantasy_Award" title="British Fantasy Award">British Fantasy Award</a>,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and the <a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy Award</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> reviewed <i>Books of Blood</i> for <i><a href="/wiki/Imagine_(game_magazine)" title="Imagine (game magazine)">Imagine magazine</a></i>, and stated that "for those of you who wonder how far it is possible for an author to go, you need look no further, as hands attempt to rule the world, frogs succeed (sort of), and there's something unpleasant behind every door."<sup id="cite_ref-Imagine29_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Imagine29-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_other_media">In other media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: In other media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comics">Comics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Comics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eighteen of the stories in the <i>Books of Blood</i> have been adapted by Eclipse Books in the comic series <i>Tapping the Vein</i> as well as other titled adaptations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film_and_television">Film and television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Film and television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Novelette "Rawhead Rex": </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Rawhead_Rex_(film)" title="Rawhead Rex (film)">Rawhead Rex</a></i> (1986), film directed by <a href="/wiki/George_Pavlou" title="George Pavlou">George Pavlou</a></li></ul> <p>Novelette "The Forbidden": </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Candyman_(1992_film)" title="Candyman (1992 film)">Candyman</a></i> (1992), film directed by <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Rose_(director)" title="Bernard Rose (director)">Bernard Rose</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Candyman:_Farewell_to_the_Flesh" title="Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh">Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh</a></i> (1995), film directed by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Condon" title="Bill Condon">Bill Condon</a>, based on characters</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Candyman_3:_Day_of_the_Dead" title="Candyman 3: Day of the Dead">Candyman 3: Day of the Dead</a></i> (1999), film directed by Turi Meyer, based on characters</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Candyman_(2021_film)" title="Candyman (2021 film)">Candyman</a></i> (2021), film directed by <a href="/wiki/Nia_DaCosta" title="Nia DaCosta">Nia DaCosta</a>, based on characters</li></ul> <p>Novella "The Last Illusion": </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_Illusions" title="Lord of Illusions">Lord of Illusions</a></i> (1995), film directed by <a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker" title="Clive Barker">Clive Barker</a></li></ul> <p>Novelette "The Body Politic": </p> <ul><li>"The Body Politic", first story of the TV movie <i><a href="/wiki/Quicksilver_Highway" title="Quicksilver Highway">Quicksilver Highway</a></i> (1997) directed by <a href="/wiki/Mick_Garris" title="Mick Garris">Mick Garris</a></li></ul> <p>Novelette "The Midnight Meat Train": </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Midnight_Meat_Train" title="The Midnight Meat Train">The Midnight Meat Train</a></i> (2008), film directed by <a href="/wiki/Ryuhei_Kitamura" title="Ryuhei Kitamura">Ryuhei Kitamura</a></li></ul> <p>Novelette "Dread": </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dread_(film)" title="Dread (film)">Dread</a></i> (2009), film directed by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_DiBlasi" title="Anthony DiBlasi">Anthony DiBlasi</a></li></ul> <p>Short stories "The Book of Blood" and "On Jerusalem Street": </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Blood" title="Book of Blood">Book of Blood</a></i> (2009), film directed by <a href="/wiki/John_Harrison_(director)" title="John Harrison (director)">John Harrison</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Books_of_Blood_(film)" title="Books of Blood (film)">Books of Blood</a></i> (2020), TV movie directed by <a href="/wiki/Brannon_Braga" title="Brannon Braga">Brannon Braga</a></li></ul> <p>Novelette "The Yattering and Jack": </p> <ul><li>Episode 7 of the fourth season of the television series <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_the_Darkside" title="Tales from the Darkside">Tales from the Darkside</a></i> (1987), adapted by Clive Barker</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Books_of_Blood&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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style="width:1%">Literature</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Damnation_Game_(novel)" title="The Damnation Game (novel)">The Damnation Game</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hellbound_Heart" title="The Hellbound Heart">The Hellbound Heart</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Weaveworld" title="Weaveworld">Weaveworld</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cabal_(novella)" title="Cabal (novella)">Cabal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Imajica" title="Imajica">Imajica</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Thief_of_Always" title="The Thief of Always">The Thief of Always</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sacrament_(novel)" title="Sacrament (novel)">Sacrament</a></i></li> 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Razorline" title="Razorline">Razorline</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ectokid" title="Ectokid">Ectokid</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hokum_%26_Hex" title="Hokum & Hex">Hokum & Hex</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hyperkind" title="Hyperkind">Hyperkind</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saint_Sinner_(comics)" title="Saint Sinner (comics)">Saint Sinner</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films, TV<br /> and video games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Directed by Barker</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hellraiser" title="Hellraiser">Hellraiser</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nightbreed" title="Nightbreed">Nightbreed</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_Illusions" title="Lord of Illusions">Lord of Illusions</a></i> (1995)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Written only</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Underworld_(1985_film)" title="Underworld (1985 film)">Underworld</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rawhead_Rex_(film)" title="Rawhead Rex (film)">Rawhead Rex</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hellbound:_Hellraiser_II" title="Hellbound: Hellraiser II">Hellbound: Hellraiser II</a></i> (1988; story only)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker%27s_A-Z_of_Horror" title="Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror">A-Z of Horror</a></i> (1997)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Produced only</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Plague_(2006_film)" title="The Plague (2006 film)">The Plague</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Midnight_Meat_Train" title="The Midnight Meat Train">The Midnight Meat Train</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Blood" title="Book of Blood">Book of Blood</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dread_(film)" title="Dread (film)">Dread</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hellraiser_(2022_film)" title="Hellraiser (2022 film)">Hellraiser</a></i> (2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Masters_of_Horror" title="Masters of Horror">Masters of Horror</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Haeckel%27s_Tale" title="Haeckel's Tale">Haeckel's Tale</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Valerie_on_the_Stairs" title="Valerie on the Stairs">Valerie on the Stairs</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Video games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker%27s_Nightbreed:_The_Interactive_Movie" title="Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie">Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker%27s_Undying" title="Clive Barker's Undying">Clive Barker's Undying</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker%27s_Jericho" title="Clive Barker's Jericho">Clive Barker's Jericho</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Recurring 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