As the story begins, young Cal Mooney, an office grind with a fanciful heart, chances upon the rug and is transported into the enchanted fields and towns of ""The Fugue""-the marvelous land woven within the rug. But at the dawn of this century, modernity's onslaught forced the Seerkind to retreat within a magical fortress-a carpet.
To do so, he posits a race of magicians-the Seerkind-as always having cast spells of delight alongside humankind. Barker attempts nothing less here than the resurrection of the imagination as the prime force in human destiny. Never mind: his new dark fantasy, an epic tale of a magic carpet and the wondrous world within its weave, towers above his earlier work-and, despite some serious flaws, manages via its powerful and giddy torrent of invention to grasp the golden ring as the most ambitious and visionary horror novel of the decade. Britisher Barker, horror's Wunderkind, has dazzled in several short-story collections (The Human Condition, In the Flesh, etc.), but disappointed in his one previous novel, the unwieldy The Damnation Game (1985).
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