The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

The Great and Secret Show

The First Book of the Art

by Clive Barker

Collins, 1989 [First Edition], ISBN 000223453, illustrated end-papers, large hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dust-jacket shows minor edge and shelf wear (see photographs)

"It is 1971.  In the small Californian town of Palomo Grove four girls go swimming in a mysterious and haunted lake.  Nine months later several children are born.  Two are the offspring of the Jaff, a man-spirit obsessed with darkness and depravity.  The other is the son of Fletcher, a force for light who has fought the Jaff across America.
Their prize is the Art, the greatest power known to mankind.  A doorway to the dream-life of the species, on the other side of which lies a force that pales every human evil into insignificance ... "