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- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- 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.
source ↗ - ChangeTwelve pages become a movie
"The Book of Blood" runs 12 pages. The 2009 film pairs it with Volume Six's postscript, "On Jerusalem Street", and adds the hitman Wyburd as a frame.
source ↗ - ChangeA grieving mother
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.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe Yattering on TV
"The Yattering and Jack" became a Tales from the Darkside episode in 1987, adapted by Barker himself.
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- ChangePhilosophy, not film school
In the story, Quaid and Stephen Grace are philosophy students, and the test subject is Quaid's girlfriend Cheryl. In the film, they're making a film project, recording other people's fears.
source ↗ - ChangeNew faces
The film is "loosely based" on the story and adds people who aren't in the book, like Abby with her birthmark and Joshua, who fears going deaf again.
source ↗ - ReferencePoe again
"New Murders in the Rue Morgue" reworks Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesRecycled quicksand
A quicksand scene from "The Skins of the Fathers" turns up again in Lord of Illusions, which Barker directed.
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- ChangeZeal is in England
The story is set in Zeal, a village in Kent. The film moves the monster to rural Ireland.
source ↗ - 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.
source ↗ - 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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- ChangeNow with a narrator
On TV, "The Body Politic" becomes a tale told by showman Aaron Quicksilver (Christopher Lloyd) to a pickpocket. Matt Frewer plays the man with the rebel hands.
source ↗ - ChangeCharlie gets a title
The story's Charlie George becomes Dr. Charles George in the TV movie.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA different US title
In the US, this volume came out as The Inhuman Condition, after its second story.
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- ChangeClass became race
"The Forbidden" is set on a Liverpool estate and is about class. The 1992 Candyman moves to Chicago's Cabrini-Green and puts race at the center.
source ↗ - ChangeGraffiti, not legends
In the story, Helen photographs the graffiti of the Spector Street estate for her thesis. In the film, Helen Lyle is an anthropology grad student studying urban legends.
source ↗ - ChangeCandyman gets a name
In the story, Candyman is a feared figure with bees, a hook and a cotton-candy smell. The film gives him a name and a past: Daniel Robitaille, a painter murdered by racists.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesIn the Flesh
In the US, this volume was published as In the Flesh, after the story that closes it.
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- ChangeA new villain
In the story, the villain is Butterfield, a demon in human form. The film invents cult leader Nix and turns Butterfield into a human follower.
source ↗ - ChangeWatch the body
In the book, D'Amour's job is to watch Swann's body day and night until cremation, because demons are coming to collect on a deal. The film tells a different story with a different ending.
source ↗ - ChangeThree pages, two films
"On Jerusalem Street" is just 3 pages and closes the collection by circling back to the first story. It still framed Book of Blood (2009) and inspired the Bennett story in Books of Blood (2020).
source ↗ - Behind the scenesTucked into Cabal
In the US, this volume never came out on its own: its stories appeared in a book alongside the short novel Cabal.
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