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Doing Things By The Book

Of the 30 stories in the six volumes of Books Of Blood, eight had already been adapted for film or TV.

BACK WHEN WRITER/filmmaker Brannon Braga (Star Trek, Threshold, The Orville) was in his early twenties, he read all six volumes of Clive Barker’s Books Of Blood, and his creative world was rocked.

“Clive’s work was groundbreaking in its originality and its transgressive subject matter,” Braga tells Red Alert, recalling Barker’s

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