This is the second in a series of books of the art written by the great British author Clive Barker and released in 1994. Set in an American town Everville it is a fantasy/horror epic. The town seems like any other mid Western town but it has been created on a crossroads and the towns history holds dark secrets. On a mountain peak that looks down over the town there lies a portal into a fantasy land with a great sea full of creatures. We meet the occupants of the town as well as Harry D'Amour who has been tracking an ancient and forboding prescence across America. Pheobe Cobb is the woman desperatly seeking her lover Joe who stumbles upon ...  Read the complete review

Clive Barker does it again in this superb sequel to the equally fantastic Great and Secret Show. This time the strory is set around the city of Everville where a series of bizarre and interesting characters continue a quest for the art (the greatest power known to mankind) and the dream-seas of Quiddity a mystical place that a person visits three times in their life, once when they are born, once when they fall in love and once when they die. The plot is unbelievable making you wonder where the hell Barker gets these mind bending ideas from. There is a wide variety of excellent characters ranging from the bizzare to the sick and twisted. A favourite of ...  Read the complete review