The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker - Book Review

The theme here is duality. We start off with a bored mailman working in the mail sorting room in Nebraska. This man’s name is Jaffe. By sorting through the dead letters of America, he stumbles upon something referred to as “The Art”. 

After he leaves the mailroom, he goes out into the desert and meets a mystical hermit who tells him about “Quiddity”, which is a super form of existence in a dream state. It is a confusing concept. Jaffee then hires a scientist to make a serum that will allow him to reach Quiddity, but the scientist fears Jaffee’s evilness and, instead, destroys his lab. 

In the end, Jaffee and the scientist are exposed to the substance and turn into spirits, flying around in the sky battling each other for a year, before falling into a lake in California.  

They then meet some girls and decide to rape them, eventually giving birth to their babies. Eighteen years later when the kids are grown, the two spirits of good and evil are still fighting.