On a mountain peak, high above the city of Everville, a door stands open: a door that lets onto the shores of the dream sea Quiddity And there’s not a soul below who’ll not be changed by that fact… With Clive Barker’s trademark mingling of wild fantasy, eroticism, and visionary horror, Everville promises to take its readers on a journey that will awe, arouse, and terrify in equal measure, opening the doors of a new reality for readers of fantasy and horror alike. Welcome to a new volume in that epic adventure. Sprawling, ambitious, triumphantly magical and satisfying, The Great and Secret Show is what the rest of life is all about.įive years ago, in his bestseller The Great and Secret Show Clive Barker mesmerized millions of readers worldwide with an extraordinary vision of human passions and possibilities. In this, the First Book of the Art, Clive Barker has created a masterpiece of the imagination that explores the uncharted territory within our secret lives and most private hearts.

The Great and Secret Show has begun on the stage of the world. Young passion blossoms, as the world withers with war. A lake that has never existed falls from the clouds over Palomo Grove, California. Armageddon begins with a murder in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha, Nebraska. ‘Succinctly put,’ says Barker, ‘it’s about Hollywood, sex, and Armageddon.’ Memory prophecy and fantasythe past, the future, and the dreaming moment betweenare all one country living one immortal day To know that is Wisdom. Fantasy horror story love fablein this one unforgettable epic Clive Barker wields the full power and sweep of his extraordinary talents.

Now, with The Great and Secret Show he rises to awesome new heights. Clive Barker’s bestseller Weaveworld astonished worldwide readers with his visionary range, firmly establishing him as the reigning master of fabulist literature.

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