Clive Barker Offers New Details on ‘Books of Blood’ TV Series

Many of author Clive Barker‘s stories have been adapted into films to varying degrees of success. The author recently offered an update on a TV series adaptation of his Books of Blood series, confirming it is an “absolute joy” to develop the project.

“The television adaptation of The Books of Blood, a series I’m working on with Brannon Braga, is going forth, speedily, and working with Brannon is an absolute joy,” Barker shared on the official Clive Barker website. “I should add I think, because this is tasty, the series has been expanded from the stories in the Books of Blood with stories that have been developed by me along the style of the Books of Blood stories – because it’s 30 years since I wrote the Books of Blood and my mind has certainly not remained empty of those kind of ideas. So there are, I think, about thirty narratives which I have developed which you could call ‘Books of Blood stories’, as narrative outlines, but I haven’t yet turned them into stories. We will probably turn at least some of those into episodes for the television series.”

Thanks to stories like Hellraiser, Candyman, and Nightbreed, Barker has pushed the boundaries of what can be done in the world of horror. The author elaborated about how he aims to continue that tradition with the new series.

“What I’m trying to do is at very least match, and in some cases surpass, the intensity of the original Books of Blood,” Barker detailed. “Some of those stories have a nod and a wink to another kind of narrative – I mean New Murders in the Rue Morgue, is an example, obviously a nod to Poe, but then there’s Rawhead Rex which is a straight-off monster story, and I want to revisit those kinds of stories. I want to do a new monster story for instance, something that is fresh and for a modern audience.”

He added, “I am hoping that in the Books of Blood series we will not only go to the most chilling and intense of the books but I will add to that sum of stories new tales that perhaps wouldn’t even have occurred to me thirty years ago. The world has changed. The world has become a darker, scarier place since then, unbelievably but it’s true.”

Stay tuned for details on the future of the Books of Blood TV series.

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