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‘In part a tale of terrors, rooted in recognisable suburbia, and in part a mythical saga, romping through various layers of consciousness. You never know quite where you stand or whether at key moments you are intended to feel cosmically enlightened or just palpably spooked. It is often claimed for horror that it draws on the primal in our responses but, as moments like this show, the best stories can owe their force to something nearer the contemporary surface.’

Independent

‘A mixture of sex, Armageddon and Hollywood … ingenious and compelling.’

Daily Express

‘A social visionary. He crafts intricately designed hellscapes … a writer unbound by the traditional restrictions of the horror genre. Barker’s vision is at once startling and seductive. A finely tuned, dark allegory and a painful parody of our most cherished religious longings. Barker has initiated an exciting fictional exploration of the ramifications of our mythologies. He is at his best here … a true master at work.’

Times Picayune, New Orleans

‘This enthralling fable … the headlong progress of Randolph Jaffe from lost-letter sorter to evil master of unreality pulls the reader along in its ghost-ridden slipstream.’

Manchester Evening News

‘Trying to describe Clive Barker’s writing is like trying to nail smoke to a wall. Almost singlehandedly, he’s reshaping horror stories into something quite different – mystic fables for the modem age. An astonishing book, combining leaps of the imagination with Zen mysticism and psychology.’

Cleo, Sydney

‘The best thing he has ever written … pure narrative simplicity… what wonders are in store as he develops his themes?’

Fear

‘He has forged a singular style of “fantastical” fiction, blending bizarre eroticism and gruesome horror into wild tales of supernatural exploration … emphasizes ideas over gore with provocative and apocalyptic vision … dazzling skill.’

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

‘Acute and fluent, Barker’s novel is fantasy, or horror, or science-fantasy, or everything together.’

Observer

‘The Great and Secret Show is a fable for our times. A marvelously complex work, intricately planned: a myriad of subplots all come together in a final crescendo. There is an Everyman quality about the novel.’

Rocky Mountain News

‘Memorable characters, careening, converging plots, a precise, ironic, measured style … Barker’s a showman.’

Chicago Tribune

‘Clive Barker, polymath among goremeisters … the novel has moments of visionary nastiness, and Barker has certainly learned how to develop and maintain a coherent narrative structure over the extended length of a fantasy blockbuster.’

Q

‘Gripping, ambitious, a very imaginative work …’

Kent Evening Post

‘Barker has evolved into something more than just another horror writer … a never-ending fantasy joyride.’

Sacramento Union

‘Fantastic stuff … Barker writes extremely well.’

Evening Standard