sentences:  After Mr. Flay duels with and eventually overcomes his nemesis Abiatha Swelter, Sepulchrave appears, ghost-like and claims the gigantic corpse in the name of the owls to whom he intends to offer it.He drags the body to the Tower of Flints, where it and he are torn apart and devoured.He thus characterizes his suicide as a form of dark catharsis or transformation.