Ladies and Gentlemen, we've made it to the last story in Clive Barker's Books of Blood short story collection. Today we will be looking at the epilogue story, On Jerusalem Street.
The epilogue is only a few pages long and tells of the last moments of McNeal, the young man from the first story whose body the ghost carved with stories into. He's been tracked down by a man by the name of Wyburd, who plans on flaying McNeal and turning his skin into an actual book.
Wyburd kills and skins McNeal, but before he can reap his award, the ghost return and seek their revenge on him.
In the afterlife, McNeal and Wyburd walk side by side down the highway of the dead. A fitting ending to this collection of stories.
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This concludes my look at Clive Barker's Books of Blood. I've learned a lot from this series, and it has inspired me to write my own, small collection of short stories. I look forward to what other things Clive Barker can teach me as I continue to work through his canon.
The next work of Clive Barker's we will be looking at will be his first novel, The Damnation Game.
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