Due to the close proximity to Quiddity, Raul's spirit departs Tesla's body. Tesla and Phoebe split up as Phoebe heads through the neirica into Quiddity. By threatening one of the creatures, and due to the timely arrival of D'Amour, they are able to escape. Tesla and Phoebe head to the mountains of Everville where they find some creatures from Quiddity and the bodies of Lucien and his colleagues, who have been crucified. D'Amour finds an old abode of Kissoon's and pursues him across the country, eventually being led to Everville. With support from Ted and his psychic friend Norma, D'Amour infiltrates a ceremony of beings from Quiddity, but Kissoon arrives in a new body, killing them and sealing the neirica. In New York, Harry D'Amour meets with his friend Ted, who has made a painting of Wyckoff Street, where years earlier D'Amour encountered a demon he calls Lazy Susan who killed a friend of his. In a dream Phoebe is able to interact with Joe, but he is left for dead in the water by the enslaved beings on the ship he is traveling on. Due to the arrival of Erwin and other spirits, as well as Kissoon's weakened state, Tesla and Phoebe are able to escape. Tesla and Phoebe return to Erwin's house where they encounter Kissoon. Buddenbaum has brought spirits he calls avatars with him and is looking for what he calls the crossroads. Erwin's spirit is able to lead Tesla to his home where she meets and befriends Phoebe.īuddenbaum returns to Everville and starts a relationship with local teenager Seth Lundy. He introduces Joe to a squid-like creature called Zehraphushu ("Shu") which is believed to be a god-like being possessing a hive mind. Noah convinces Joe to bring him through into Quiddity and promises him power. Joe, fleeing to the hills near Everville, comes across Noah and the still present neirica to Quiddity. Erwin's spirit remains and sees him creating Lix, revealing that Fletcher is in fact Kissoon. Fletcher drains the life out of Erwin, killing him. Tesla meets up with and makes love to Lucien but the two argue and split up, spurned primarily by Raul. His research leads him to the remains of the family's home where he finds Fletcher. An attorney named Erwin Toothaker comes across a 30-year-old confession about the lynching of a strange family of three. He reaches out to Howard and Jo-Beth, who are now married with a baby daughter, Amy. Meanwhile, Grillo, who has been collecting strange stories from around the world in a database he calls "The Reef" comes across a report that makes him believe Tommy Ray is still alive.
Tesla Bombeck, whose head is also occupied by Raul, returns to Palomo Grove where she meets a young man named Lucien and his colleagues, who believe Fletcher has returned. When caught by Phoebe's husband, a struggle ensues and her husband is accidentally killed, forcing Joe, who has a prior criminal record, to go on the run. A doctor's receptionist named Phoebe Cobb carried on an affair with a black painter named Joe Flicker. The narrative then shifts to the present day, where Everville is about to hold its popular annual festival. Only one of the beings from Quiddity remains, a creature named Noah. As the neirica closes, Coker severs his wings to stay with Maeve. Coker and Maeve are about to head through a portal, called a neirica, which brought such beings to Earth from Quiddity, but the arrival of Buddenbaum disrupts things. Disobeying his orders to not follow him, Maeve ends up disrupting a wedding ceremony of two warring families from Quiddity, leading to a large conflict and the death of most of the families. Maeve's father is scapegoated and murdered by the fanatics in the group but Maeve is saved by a winged creature named Coker. Her father seeks to found the town of Everville, being inspired by a mysterious man named Buddenbaum and having been given a medallion similar to the one possessed by Jaffe in the Great and Secret Show. In 1848, an Irish immigrant named Maeve O'Connell is traveling west with her father and a group of others. Detective Harry D'Amour appears, as do the 'Shu (small, squid-like beings described as "pieces of God"), Phoebe Cobb, a resident of the town who passionately loves Joe, a dark-skinned painter, and Seth, a gay teenager who can hear angels knocking from the other side of Heaven. The story tells of the creation and transformation of the small town of Everville, including several characters from Quiddity, the vast universe or afterlife hinted previously in the series. The second in the Books of the Art series, it follows the 1989 novel The Great and Secret Show. Everville is a 1994 fantasy novel by British author Clive Barker.
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