Maximillian Bacchus is
the ringmaster, ruler, guide and owner of what he considers the greatest
 show in the world. Traveling with a Crocodile named Malachi, a trapeze
girl named Ophelia, a strong man they call Hero, which is short for
Hieronymus a clown named Domingo de Ybarrondo, who paints in a wagon
pulled by a giant Ibis bird, the troupe wanders from adventure to
adventure with mythic aplomb. From the first story, in which
Indigo Murphy, the best bird handler in the world leaves the show to
join in matrimony with the Duke Lorenzo de Medici, to the fabled court
of Kubla Khan, the magic never stops. You will meet a young apple thief
named Angelo with magic eyes, and an orang-outang named Bathsheba, and a
 host of other amazing characters with names and personas cut like a
patchwork quilt from the mythologies and dreams of the world. Though
 written forty years ago, these pages are littered with the same magical
 side steps that have always been woven into Clive Barkers fiction.
Worlds not quit our own, and yet so real they ring with truth and leave
you wishing you could step from your mundane life into that other place
into those caves of ice if only long enough to catch Maximillian's show.

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