The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
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 ... "