A botched plastic surgery leads Hollywood star Todd Pickett to find a place to hide until his injuries heal. Pickett takes refuge in a mysterious mansion in Coldheart Canyon, an area of the city so secret it doesn't exist on any map. And there, it gets lost.
Tami Lauper, president of Pickett's fan club, goes to the City of Angels to investigate his disappearance. But as she gets closer to her goal, she discovers one by one the dark secrets of the mansion: the hostess Katia Lupi, the now forgotten star of the big screen, who remains alive and untouched by time a hundred years later; the ghosts of dead stars who have an orgy nights in Coldhar Canyon; and finally, the gateway to the Devil's Land, the darkest and most inhuman corner of Hell, which leaves its indelible marks on the soul of every visitor.
And if she wants to find Todd Pickett, she'll have to cross her threshold.
"Secrets of Babylon" is a delightfully unholy novel by the multi-talented Clive Barker, which combines maturity, lyricism, magic, love and death in a mosaic of unparalleled imagination and writing skill.
"A fascinating writer, with a powerful and exquisite imagination." (JG BALLARD)
"I saw the future of horror literature and his name is Clive Barker." (STEPHEN KING)
"Clive Barker is the cartographer of the mind, a traveler in the reaches of the imagination." (The Washington Times"
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