In this volume:  The Book Of Blood: A fake medium is possessed by their dead and is turned into a 'diary'. The Midnight Meat Train: A struggling photographer becomes obsessed with a brutal subway serial killer , only to discover the murders aren't random but part of an ancient, subterranean society. The Yattering And Jack: A minor demon, the Yattering, sent by Beelzebub to torment Jack Polo, a cheerful gherkin importer, to claim his soul due to an ancestral pact; but the demon may have met his match! Pig Blood Blues: An ex-cop works at a grim juvenile detention center, where a troubled teen claims a ghost haunts the grounds - specifically, the soul of a missing boy which now inhabits a giant sow in the farm sty. Sex, Death And Starshine:  A failing London theatre   becomes a literal stage for the dead, blurring lines between acting and reality, as ghostly, spectral lovers rise from the theatre's past to embrace the living. In The Hills, The Cities:  A pair of English tourists in Yugoslavia discover two ancient, isolated cities that periodically merge their entire populations into massive, walking human giants for ritualistic, genocidal warfare. Dread:  Two college students create a project to interview people about their deepest fears, only for one of them, a sadistic psychopath, to use this knowledge to psychologically torture their subjects.  Hell's Event:  Satan sends a demon in disguise to win London's annual marathon; if the demon wins, Hell takes Earth, but a runner named Joel discovers the plot! Jacqueline Ess - Her Will and Testament: Jacqueline Ess, a housewife struggling with depression, attempts suicide and is found by her husband. She recovers only to find that she has an ability to manipulate people's flesh and bodies.  The Skins Of The Fathers: A stranded motorist witnesses a group of ancient, monumental creatures emerge from the Arizona desert,  to reclaim a child born from a union between their kind and a human woman. New Murders in the Rue Morgue: Lewis Fox, Detective Dupin's, is called to Paris to clear his friend Phillipe, who is accused of murdering his mistress. Son Of Celluloid: An escaped convict hides in an old movie theater, where his   cancerous tumor develops psychic powers from the cinema's emotional energy. Rawhead Rex: A family man vacationing in Ireland unearths a monstrous, ancient pagan entity -  Rawhead - from within  a stone altar. Confessions Of A (Pornographer's) Shroud: Ronnie, a rule-abiding Catholic, is falsely implicated by the Mafia to be the leader of a pornography cartel.  Scape Goats: A yacht is stranded on the beach of a deserted island where converging undersea currents bring all the human bodies of sailors drowned at sea. The hundreds of bodies littering the ocean floor, unfortunately for the stranded crew, are not as dead as they should be. Human Remains: Gavin, a young male prostitute, encounters a lifelike Roman statue in an archaeologist's bathroom, leading to a very haunting and alarming doppelgänger experience.