Reg convinces Mary to take a sample of the walls and send it in for analysis. When they stop and look at her, they are all ghosts.Īll three of them hear and witness strange phenomena, including Simon being locked in his room and attacked by ghosts, as well as writing scrawled on walls that bursts into flame. Early on, Mary hallucinates six girls dancing in a circle, playing ring-around-the-rosy. Simon reluctantly signs on to assist, and the three of them move in. Mary encounters Simon McNeal, a seemingly clairvoyant young man to whom she develops an attraction. Several months later, paranormal professor Mary Florescu ( Sophie Ward) and her partner Reg Fuller ( Paul Blair) investigate the house to unlock its mysteriously murderous past. An unseen force rips her face off, killing her. Opting for a clean death, Simon reveals his story.Ī teen girl is violently raped and beaten in her bed while her parents stand outside screaming her name. Wyburd offers him a choice: a slow death, or a quick and clean death by telling the story of the Book of Blood, a series of scars and inscriptions carved on Simon from head to toe. Wyburd convinces Simon to join him in his truck, where Simon passes out and awakens strapped to a table. The stranger is Wyburd ( Clive Russell), who has been stalking the young man, Simon ( Jonas Armstrong). It is based on the framing stories 'The Book of Blood' and 'On Jerusalem Street (A Postscript)' from Clive Barker's Books of Blood.Ī hooded, disfigured young man is eating at a diner, being watched by a stranger. Whether vampire legends, medieval medical practices, and Mayan sacrificial rites fascinate or terrify, this comprehensive (and sometimes horrific) investigation into blood's past and present will surely enthrall.Book of Blood is a 2009 British erotic horror film directed by John Harrison and starring Jonas Armstrong, Sophie Ward, and Doug Bradley. But back before people understood what blood really was, they had to weave their own explanations. Scientists only recently began to understand this fascinating fluid: how its microscopic components nourish the entire body, why simple transfusions don't always work, and that bloodletting likely killed people who otherwise would have lived. Doctors up through the nineteenth century attempted to cure mysterious illnesses by draining their patients' blood.

Ancient civilizations couldn't perform religious rituals without the revered liquid. It spills out at both birth and death-its bright red color like a warning sign-indicating events of the utmost significance. People have always feared and respected blood.

Though common among living beings, this substance is anything but ordinary. 'HP Newquist's thrilling volume explores the dark and often gruesome tales about blood.

The Book of Blood by H.P. Newquist