It was originally published in the United States as part of a collection comprising a novel and several short stories from Barker's sixth and final volume of the Books of Blood.

After a suicide attempt, Boone is taken to a clinic and told by a fellow patient named Narcisse that he knows the location of Midian, a semi-mythical city that welcomes monsters.

Lori narrowly escapes Decker and returns to Midian, where a revived Boone saves her against Lylesburg's wishes.

Decker convinces the bigoted police chief, Eigerman, to go to Midian and capture or kill everyone living there.

Eigerman and Decker organize a lynch mob to attack Midian, including a priest named Ashbery.

Boone, Lori, and Narcisse find that Eigerman's men have overrun Midian and that many of the Night Breed have been killed, forcing them out from the underground by setting the city aflame.

The hand-numbered books were limited to a run of 300 and contained a collection of essays from Barker-centric contributors such as Peter H. Gilmore and Nicholas Vince, as well as artwork by Barker himself and a sizable appendix of scholarly footnotes by horror philosopher Eugene Thacker.