The Great and Secret Show, Clive Barker (BCA Hardback) 1989

THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW by Clive Barker.

Armageddon begins quietly.

It is 1971. In the small Californian town of Polomo 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 drwam-lifeof the species, on the other side of which lies a force that plaes every human evil into insignificance....

To finall possess it, the two men intend to fight through their children. Until their children fall in love.

Then all hell breaks loose, as an innocent passion between two young lovers escalates the war between their fathers to new ferocity.

This time, they will fight to the death, gathering their armies from the souls of Palomo gRove. Nightmares will walk the streets. Dreams will be made real. At last, the Grove will see the Great and Secret Show.

It will never be the same again.

Nor will the world.

A hardback published in 1989 (this is a BCA edition)