Title: The Great and Secret Show

Title: The Great and Secret Show Title Record # 1843
Author: Clive Barker
Date: 1989-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Book of the Art
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: Was adapted into graphic novel format by IDW with art by Gabriel Rodriguez (who did Joe Hill's Locke and Key series) in March 2006-May 2007. 12 issues, compiled originally in 2 TPBs, then into one titled THE COMPLETE Clive Barker's Great and Secret Show in Winter 2008.

Synopsis: A struggle between two practitioners of The Art breaks into the existence of their descendants; as the barriers between our surface reality and the planes which exist parallel to ours begin to break down, alliances shift and reform in a desperate effort to stave off the end of our universe.

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Other Titles

Translations

Year	Language	Title
1990^ⓘTranslated by Ineke Wieberdink-Westerweel	Dutch	De Grote Geheime Show
1990^ⓘTranslated by Joachim Körber.	German	Jenseits des Bösen^?Jenseits des Boesen
1991^ⓘTranslated by Jean-Daniel Brèque.	French	Secret show
1993^ⓘ Translated by Mirjana Živković	Serbian	Velika i tajna predstava [as by Klajv Barker]

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
3	1990 Locus	Best Horror Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Great and Secret Show	1989-08-00	Clive Barker	Collins	0-00-223453-X	£12.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	698	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Manuel San Julian
De Grote Geheime Show	1990-00-00	Clive Barker	Luitingh-Sijthoff	90-245-1780-X		591	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Manuel San Julian
Jenseits des Bösen	1990-00-00	Clive Barker	Heyne (Heyne Jumbo #22)	3-453-04231-X	DM 28.00^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	596	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Great and Secret Show	1990-00-00	Clive Barker	Fontana	0-00-617908-8	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	698	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Great and Secret Show	1990-02-00	Clive Barker	Harper & Row	0-06-016276-7	$19.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	550	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Kirk Reinert
The Great and Secret Show	1990-02-00	Clive Barker	Harper & Row	0-06-016276-7	$19.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	550	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Kirk Reinert
The Great and Secret Show	1990-05-00	Clive Barker	Fontana	0-00-617695-X	£7.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	698	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Sanjulian
The Great and Secret Show	1990-07-00	Clive Barker	Harper & Row / BOMC	10-1939	$17.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	550	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Great and Secret Show	1990-09-00	Clive Barker	Harper & Row / QPBC		$9.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	550	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Great and Secret Show	1990-11-00	Clive Barker	HarperPaperbacks	0-06-109901-5	$5.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	688	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Kirk Reinert
Secret show	1991-11-00	Clive Barker	Albin Michel (Romans étrangers)	2-226-05588-6	F150.00^?F: French frank. ISO code: FRF in 1960-1999	638	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Secret show	1991-11-00	Clive Barker	Le Grand Livre du Mois	2-226-05588-6		638	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Jenseits des Bösen^?Jenseits des Boesen	1993-00-00	Clive Barker	Heyne (Heyne Allgemeine Reihe #8794)	3-453-06435-6	DM 12.90^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	714	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Great and Secret Show	1993-00-00	Clive Barker	HarperCollins (UK)	0-00-617908-8	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	698	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Great and Secret Show	1993-00-00	Clive Barker	HarperCollins (UK)	0-00-617908-8	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	698	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Velika i tajna predstava	1993-00-00	Klajv Barker	Polaris Beograd (Serija epske fantastike Rune)			419	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Sanjulian
Secret show	1993-04-00	Clive Barker	Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Terreur #9089)	2-266-05476-7		756	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Pierre-Olivier Templier
The Great and Secret Show	1995-06-00	Clive Barker	HarperPaperbacks	0-06-109901-5	$6.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	688	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
The Great and Secret Show	1999-12-00	Clive Barker	Harper Perennial	0-06-093316-X	$16.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	658	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	William Blake
The Great and Secret Show	2007-00-00	Clive Barker	Harper Perennial	978-0-06-093316-6	$18.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	658	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	William Blake
The Great and Secret Show	2009-03-17	Clive Barker	HarperCollins e-books	978-0-06-176029-7	$13.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Great and Secret Show	2011-11-24	Clive Barker	Harper Voyager (UK)	978-0-00-738295-8	£6.49^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Secret show	2016-05-00	Clive Barker	Bragelonne (L'ombre)	979-10-281-0071-1	€25.00^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	597	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bastien Lecouffe Deharme
The Great and Secret Show	date unknown	Clive Barker	HarperCollins (UK)	0-00-772461-6	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	698	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel

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Reviews

Review by John Gilbert (1989) in Fear, August 1989
Review by Jim England (1989) in Vector 152
Review by Faren Miller (1989) in Locus, #346 November 1989
Review by Edward Bryant (1989) in Locus, #346 November 1989
Review by James C. Harper (1990) in Science Fiction Eye, #6, February 1990
Review by Paul J. McAuley (1990) in Interzone, March-April 1990
Review by Rick Kleffel (1990) in Midnight Graffiti, Spring 1990
Review by Algis Budrys (1990) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1990
Review by Stanley Wiater (1990) in Fangoria, June 1990
Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1990) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, July-August 1990
Review by Edward Bryant (1990) in Iniquities, Autumn 1990
Review by Stephen Jones (1990) in The British Fantasy Newsletter, Winter 1989-1990
Review by Richard E. Geis (1990) in Quantum, Summer 1990
Review [French] by
André-François Ruaud^?Andre-Francois Ruaud
(1992) in Yellow Submarine, #90