Secret Show
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782226055880 (2226055886)
Publish date: October 1st 1991
Publisher: Albin Michel
Edition language: French
Series: Book of the Art (#1)
”Mind was in matter, always. That was the revelation of Quiddity. The sea was the crossroads, and from it all possibilities sprang. Before everything, Quiddity. Before life, the dream of life. Before the thing solid, the solid thing dreamt. And mind, dreaming or awake, knew justice, which was theref...
It's been 20+ years since I last read this, but it has moved around with me and I thought it was time to take it off the shelf again.Looks behind the secrets of a small town in America as the people there are chosen to be unwilling participants in a battle between good and evil.There's a lot of inte...
This was another great book by Clive Barker.
It took me a year to finish this book! Disturbing, long, but undeniably imaginative this is my least favourite of Barker's books I've read to date. I enjoyed aspects of this story, the plot is such that's impossible to summarize, I did try but it was getting so long I gave up. I'm still not sure wha...
To label The Great and Secret Show a horror novel would be to do it a disservice. "Arty horror" would be closer to the mark but that sounds silly and would still be inadequate. “Dark fantasy” sounds good to me though it deemphasizes the horror aspect of it a little too much, may be it is more phanta...
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