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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." 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
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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.
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subsequently put to death for the murder. Buck and Sadie find that
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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
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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.
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to guard the body, having read in newspapers that the private investigator seemingly encountered supernatural forces during a case in
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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
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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
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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
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come on to cover up the events of the previous night. The conductor states that he has a lot to learn before he begins his job that evening, and presents him to the cleaners who look on him with a sense of reverence. He exits the station onto the streets in the early morning as the city is waking up
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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
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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
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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
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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 attack him. They carve names and "minute words" into his flesh, leaving him his body covered in stories – the stories of this anthology series. Florescu nurses the
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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is cooperating with him. After Kaufman kills Mahogany in self-defense, the train arrives at a secret station where ancient, withered humans board and
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2285:(1989, tie)
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2182:Dark Forces
1990:Video games
1881:Rawhead Rex
1775:Comic books
1740:Collections
1383:Mick Garris
1349:Nia DaCosta
1329:Bill Condon
1297:Rawhead Rex
1250:Neil Gaiman
1129:mercenaries
1018:called the
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980:aphrodisiac
893:Volume Four
842:pornography
825:Rawhead Rex
664:, attempts
370:investigate
316:Dark Forces
145:anthologies
2678:Categories
2618:Jane Yolen
2592:Bone Swans
2552:Tim Powers
2532:Gene Wolfe
2492:M. Rickert
2283:Gene Wolfe
2101:Collection
1923:The Plague
1874:Underworld
1849:Nightbreed
1842:Hellraiser
1609:Weaveworld
1583:Literature
1499:30 October
1462:References
1242:, and the
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1158:werewolves
1117:necrophile
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847:last rites
805:antithesis
772:John Wayne
671:prostitute
658:depression
638:marathon,
600:starvation
596:vegetarian
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559:Yugoslavia
527:soap opera
474:screenplay
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223:Hellraiser
216:character
153:playwright
2562:Joel Lane
2435:Skin Folk
2327:Jack Cady
2108:1975–2000
2033:Cenobites
1825:Films, TV
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1782:Razorline
1694:Everville
1637:Sacrament
1574:Works by
1252:reviewed
1230:Reception
1137:Amazonian
1064:purgatory
1033:1992 film
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712:quicksand
504:possessed
467:Beelzebub
444:starring
358:afterlife
321:anthology
194:. Author
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110:1984–1985
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2050:Candyman
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801:talisman
645:satanist
240:Overview
198:praised
184:foreword
168:novelist
68:Language
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2139:Frights
2038:Pinhead
1788:Ectokid
1644:Galilee
1623:Imajica
1520:Imagine
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744:story "
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666:suicide
622:, with
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590:"Dread"
543:trustee
492:borstal
463:gherkin
378:visions
335:Stories
282:comical
254:psychic
246:tagline
178:in two
172:volumes
164:fanbase
71:English
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1104:plague
1069:heroin
1008:thesis
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793:verger
767:tumour
636:London
539:undead
418:subway
366:medium
274:genres
258:ghosts
155:, and
149:author
88:Horror
76:Series
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1944:Dread
1759:(art)
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797:vicar
750:Seine
733:Paris
707:posse
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