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This short story originally appeared in the collection Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volume I. It can also be found in the anthology Night Screams, edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg.

It (together with the very short story The Book of Blood (a postscript): On Jerusalem Street from Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Volume VI) was the basis for the 2009 movie Book of Blood.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Ramsey Campbell
• The Book of Blood - (1984) - short story by Clive Barker
• The Midnight Meat Train - novelette by Clive Barker
• The Yattering and Jack - novelette by Clive Barker
• Pig Blood Blues - novelette by Clive Barker
• Sex, Death and Starshine - novelette by Clive Barker
• In the Hills, the Cities - novelette by Clive Barker

Table of Contents:

• Dread - novelette by Clive Barker
• Hell's Event - novelette by Clive Barker
• Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament - novelette by Clive Barker
• The Skins of the Fathers - novelette by Clive Barker
• New Murders in the Rue Morgue - novelette by Clive Barker

Table of Contents:

• Son of Celluloid - novelette by Clive Barker
• Rawhead Rex - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker
• Confession of a (Pornographer's) Shroud - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker
• Scape-Goats - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker
• Human Remains - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker

Table of Contents:

• The Body Politic - novelette by Clive Barker
• The Inhuman Condition - (1985) - novelette by Clive Barker
• Revelations - novella by Clive Barker
• Down, Satan! - short story by Clive Barker
• The Age of Desire - novella by Clive Barker

Table of Contents:

• The Forbidden - novelette by Clive Barker
• The Madonna - novelette by Clive Barker
• Babel's Children - novelette by Clive Barker
• In the Flesh - novella by Clive Barker

Table of Contents:

• The Life of Death - novelette by Clive Barker
• How Spoilers Bleed - novelette by Clive Barker
• Twilight at the Towers - novelette by Clive Barker
• The Last Illusion - novella by Clive Barker
• The Book of Blood (a postscript): On Jerusalem Street - short story by Clive Barker

With the 1984 publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror," and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Now, with his numerous bestsellers, graphic novels, and hit movies like the Hellraiser films, Clive Barker has become an industry unto himself. But it all started here, with this tour de force collection that rivals the dark masterpieces of Edgar Allan Poe. Read him. And rediscover the true meaning of fear.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Books of Blood) - (1984) - essay by Ramsey Campbell
• Books of Blood, Volume I - [Books of Blood - 1] - (1984) - collection
• The Book of Blood - (1984) - short story
• The Midnight Meat Train - (1984) - novelette
• The Yattering and Jack - (1984) - novelette
• Pig Blood Blues - (1984) - novelette
• Sex, Death and Starshine - (1984) - novelette
• In the Hills, the Cities - (1984) - novelette
• Books of Blood, Volume II - [Books of Blood - 2] - (1984) - collection
• Dread - (1984) - novelette
• Hell's Event - (1984) - novelette
• Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament - (1984) - novelette
• The Skins of the Fathers - (1984) - novelette
• New Murders in the Rue Morgue - (1984) - novelette
• Books of Blood, Volume III - [Books of Blood - 3] - (1984) - collection
• Son of Celluloid - (1984) - novelette
• Rawhead Rex - (1984) - novelette
• Confession of a (Pornographer's) Shroud - (1984) - novelette
• Scape-Goats - (1984) - novelette
• Human Remains - (1984) - novelette

Here are the stories written on the Book of Blood. They are a map of that dark highway that leads out of life towards unknown destinations. Few will have to take it. Most will go peacefully along lamplit streets, ushered out of living with prayers and caresses. But for a few, the horrors will come, skipping, to fetch them off to the highway of the damned...

From the brilliant World Fantasy Award winner Clive Barker come fourteen spine-chilling stories of darkness unleashed, gathered together in one volume for the first time. These are visionary tales of terror which will curdle the very marrow in your bones...

Table of Contents:

• Books of Blood, Volume IV - [Books of Blood - 4] - (1985) - collection
• 1 - The Body Politic - (1985) - novelette
• 34 - The Inhuman Condition - (1985) - novelette
• 68 - Revelations - (1985) - novella
• 108 - Down, Satan! - (1985) - short story
• 113 - The Age of Desire - (1985) - novella
• Books of Blood, Volume V - [Books of Blood - 5] - (1985) - collection
• 1 - The Forbidden - (1985) - novelette
• 38 - The Madonna - (1985) - novelette
• 76 - Babel's Children - (1985) - novelette
• 103 - In the Flesh - (1985) - novella
• Books of Blood, Volume VI - [Books of Blood - 6] - (1985) - collection
• 1 - The Life of Death - (1985) - novelette
• 35 - How Spoilers Bleed - (1985) - novelette
• 66 - Twilight at the Towers - (1985) - novelette
• 97 - The Last Illusion - (1985) - novella
• 149 - The Book of Blood (a postscript): On Jerusalem Street - (1985) - short story