The Great and Secret Show

The complete 12-issue series adaptation of Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show is collected in this deluxe oversized hardcover by writer Chris Ryall and artist Gabriel Rodriguez. From inside a Nebraska dead letter office, Randolph Jaffe’s quest to possess the Art sets into motion a battle between forces light and dark. This lushly detailed tale is equal parts horror, fantasy, and love by one of the masters of the genre. Also included is the one issue adaptation of the short story “Seduth.”

Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with the bestselling Books of Blood, which established him as an icon of the horror genre. His other books include Imajica, The Great and Secret Show, The Thief of Always, Abarat, and Galilee, among others. He's also worked in film as a writer, director, and producer, on such movies as Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Candyman, and The Midnight Meat Train, to name a few. He lives is Los Angeles.

Chris Ryall is the Chief Creative Officer at IDW Publishing and the co-creator of Zombies vs Robots with Ashley Wood. Ryall has also co-created and written Groom Lake, The Colonized, The Hollows, and Onyx, and has also written adaptations of stories by Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Richard Matheson. He is also the co-author of a prose book about comics, Comic Books 101, and has written comics based on the Transformers, the band Kiss, Mars Attacks, Weekly World News, and, currently, Hasbro’s Rom. Ryall and ZvR co-creator Ashley Wood were nominated for the 2006 Eisner Award for “Best Short Story.”