Blood And Sulphur

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Tales of Blood and Sulphur is a collection of short stories centered on the theme of the supernatural and human corruption. It opens with two men interrogating a Middle Eastern man whose name is Null. At the interrogation, Null offers to tell stories as he claims to be a story teller. One of the men, decided to take up on his offer. Then Null begins to tell stories, which later known as the tales of blood and sulphur. This is actually the premise that kind of ties up the stories in this book.
Although these short stories are not directly connected to each other, I noticed that there are names from one short story mentioned in another. This fact makes me assume that the short stories

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