The Yattering and Jack may be my favorite story in volume one. The Midnight Meat Train (turned into a film in 2008), is about someone slaughtering people on the New York subway, and hanging them like meat for something that lives in the tunnels, and feasts on human flesh. The framing story for the series is called Book of Blood, it’s a ghost story that sees a young charlatan literally inscribed with the tales told in the book after a rift is open allowing the dead the ability to tell their stories through him. I dove into Volumes 1 to 3, and quickly realized that yes, he can still creep me out, and for the first time in a long time, made me anxious of dark spaces and shadows. With the imminent arrival of The Scarlet Gospels in May, I thought I would throw some of his books back into my reading cycle, and what better place to start that his brilliant collection of short stories – the Books of Blood series. There are few authors that can get under my skin with their stories and nightmare imagery.
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