Everville

Everville

Five years ago, in his bestseller <I>The Great and Secret Show</I> Clive Barker mesmerized millions of readers worldwide with an extraordinary vision of human passions and possibilities. <P> Welcome to a new volume in that epic adventure. Welcome to Everville. <P> <P>With Clive Barker's trademark mingling of wild fantasy, eroticism, and visionary horror, <I>Everville</I> promises to take its readers on a journey that will awe, arouse, and terrify in equal measure, opening the doors of a new reality for readers of fantasy and horror alike. <P> <P>On a mountain peak, high above the city of Everville, a door stands open: a door that lets onto the shores of the dream-sea Quiddity And there's not a soul below who'll not be changed by that fact... <P> <P><I>Phoebe Cobb,</I> once a doctor's receptionist, is about to forget her old life and go looking for her lost lover, Joe Flicker, in the world on the other side of that door, a strange, sensual wonderland the likes of which only Barker could make real. <P><P><I>Tesla Bombeck,</I> who knows what horrors lurk on the far side of Quiddity, must solve the mysteries of the city's past if she is to keep those horrors from crossing the threshold. <P> <P><I>Harry D'Amour,</I> who has tracked the ultimate evil across America, will find it conjuring atrocities in the sunlit streets of Everville. <P> <P>These are but a few of the hugely entertaining characters whose destinies Barker has charted in this book. Enthralling, chilling, and charged with an unbridled eroticism, Everville is above all a novel about the deepest yearnings of the human heart. For love. For hope. For understanding. <P><P>And of course Ws about the forces that threaten those dreams. The monsters that are never more terrible than when they wear human faces... <P> <P>Step onto Everville's streets and enter a world like no other in fiction, created by a man whom the Washington Post called "a mapmaker of the mind, charting the furthest reaches of the imagination."