The book that launched Clive Barker. It opens with "The Book of Blood": researcher Mary Florescu hires medium Simon McNeal to look into a haunted house, and the dead carve their stories into his skin. That written body is the book the collection is named after. Then come "The Midnight Meat Train", on the New York subway; "The Yattering and Jack", a comedy about a minor demon trying to drive a gherkin importer mad; "Pig Blood Blues", set in a youth detention center; "Sex, Death and Starshine", backstage at a Shakespeare production; and "In the Hills, the Cities", where two Yugoslav towns build giants out of people.
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ChangeWho Leon Kaufman is
In the story, Kaufman nods off on the New York subway and wakes past the last stop, face to face with Mahogany. In the film he's a photographer who goes after the butcher on purpose.
In the story, Mary Florescu is a researcher who hires the medium. The 2020 TV movie makes her a mother who lost her son, Miles, and wants to reach him.
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