Jack Polo is a gherkin importer who's haunted by a minor demon called the Yattering. The movie, for the most part, seems to follow the storyline of Barker's original design, minus the fact that the creatures themselves are described as having existed 'Before the birth of any human, or longer' and it is the train conductor who tells him that he is now their new butcher. Kaufman finds he now has lifetime employment.Ī movie of the same name was released on August 1, 2008. The police have always covered up for the creatures. It is also revealed that the creatures have also been the secret rulers of New York City for centuries.

They tell Kaufman that Mahogany was getting old and could not do the job any longer, and that Kaufman now has a new career. The creatures eat the dead passengers, then force Kaufman to serve them as their new butcher, cutting out his tongue to ensure his silence. Kaufman fights Mahogany and kills him in self-defense, but then the train doors open and strange malformed creatures board the train.

Mahogany remarks that he will be forced to kill Kaufman to guard his secrets. Kaufman encounters a man named Mahogany, who has killed and butchered several people and hung their bodies up on the train. They attack him and carve words in his flesh, and these words, claims the narrator, form the rest of the stories, stories written on a literal, living Book of Blood.Ī down-and-out man, Leon Kaufman, falls asleep on a New York subway train, only to wake up at a secret station beyond the end of the line. Alone in an upstairs room, McNeal at first fakes visions, but then the ghosts really do come for him. A psychic researcher, Mary Florescu, has employed a quack medium named Simon McNeal to investigate a haunted house. This is the frame story for the entire Books of Blood series.

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