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The six volumes · the 1980s

Books of Blood: Volume Three

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An ancient monster rises from a field, and a tumor grows behind a cinema screen

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Do you need to read it?

Yes. It's part of the chronological order leading up to the end of the saga.

Where it falls in the order

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Quick recap

Five stories. "Son of Celluloid" starts with a wounded crook who dies hiding behind a cinema screen; his tumor feeds on the audience's emotions and grows. In "Rawhead Rex", Thomas Garrow ploughs the field he inherited near the village of Zeal and frees a nine-foot monster. "Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud" follows a Catholic accountant who gets mixed up with porn producers and comes back, dead, inside his morgue sheet. "Scape-Goats" runs a yacht aground on a remote North Atlantic island. And "Human Remains" is about a young hustler and a statue that slowly takes his place.

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What changed on screen

  1. ChangeZeal is in England

    The story is set in Zeal, a village in Kent. The film moves the monster to rural Ireland.

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  2. ChangeWho lets it out

    In the book, Thomas Garrow digs up the stone while ploughing the field he inherited. In the film, a farmer loosens an obelisk in a storm and lightning finishes the job.

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  3. ReferenceA story in reels

    "Son of Celluloid" is split into three parts named like a movie bill: "Trailer," "Main Feature" and "Censored Scenes."

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