Everville: The Second Book of the Art Barker, Clive

From the Back Cover With Clive Barker's trademark mingling of wild fantasy, eroticism, and visionary horror, Everville promises a journey that will awe, arouse, and terrify in equal measure, opening the doors of a new reality--a strange and sensual wonderland of magical possibility. Enthralling and chilling, this is a novel about the deepest yearnings of the human heart. And about monsters that are never more terrible than when they wear human faces. Step onto Everville's streets and enter a world like no other in fiction. A world only Clive Barker could create. Product Description From New York Times bestselling author Clive Barker comes the spectacular sequel to his masterpiece of dark fantasy The Great and Secret Show that reveals once again the age-old battle between good and evil. On the borderland between this world and the world of Quiddity, the sea of our dreams, sits Everville. For years it has lived in ignorance of the gleaming shore on which it lies. But its ignorance is not bliss. Opening the door between worlds, Clive Barker delivers his characters into the heart of the human mystery; into a place of revelation, where the forces which have shaped our past—and are ready to destroy our future—are at work. It's back to the shores of Quiddity, the undulant dream sea that separates worldly Cosm from the trippy Metacosm, for a restaging of the epic struggle for the Art, major magic that was last coveted by the infinitely wicked Kissoon, who sponsored the previous battle to control this transcendental force. Itinerant biker chick Tesla Bombeck leads the way to Everville, a sleepy small town in Oregon about to be savaged by the passage of the Iad Uroboros—a mindless, evil juggernaut bent to Kissoon's will—through a rip in the veil between Cosm and Metacosm. Determined to thwart Kissoon, Bombeck enlists the aid of several cronies, among them Catholic gumshoe Harry D'Amour, a tattooed student of necromancy; computer archivist Nathan Grillo, guardian of the novel's paranormal Internet; and Phoebe Cobb, an Everville resident whose lover, Joe Flicker, has fled to Quiddity Review "A spectacular sequel to his masterpiece of dark fantasy, The Great and Secret Show. For all his facility at apocalyptic wonders, Barker's greatest strength remains his grasp on the yearnings of the heart and spirit. At times profound, this novel confirms the author's position...as one of modern fictions premier metaphysicians." — Publishers Weekly "Barker's most ambitious work to date...Rapturously full of emotions." — L.A. Life "Our most accomplished contemporary purveyor of horror fiction strikes again in Everville, a tale of worlds in conflict in which...Hieronymus Bosch paints before and after pictures of our town...One spectacularly visionary climax after another...Exhilarating. [Barker's] extravagantly unconventional inventions are ingenious refractions of our common quest to experience and understand the mysterious world around us and the mysteries within ourselves." — New York Times Book Review "Both camp fantasy and majestic invention...the characters really live, even when dead." — Mail on Sunday "Confirms the author's position...as one of modern fiction's premier metaphysicians." — Publishers Weekly "Mesmerizing invention." — Publishers Weekly "Mr. Barker is much more than a genre writer, and his extravagantly unconventional inventions are ingenious refractions of our common quest to experience and understand the mysterious world around us and the mysteries within ourselves." — The New York Times Book Review "Spellbinding." — Atlanta Journal "With Everville Clive Barker once again proves he is one of the most imaginative writers working today." — The Virginian Pilot and The Ledger State "[A] dazzling metaphysical epic-adventure...an astonishing feat of imagination...Barker's best yet." — Kirkus Reviews About the Author Clive Barker is the bestselling author of twenty-two books, including the New York Times bestsellers Abarat; Abarat