A failed plastic surgery leads Hollywood star Todd Pickett to search for a place to hide until his wounds heal. Pickett finds refuge in a mysterious mansion in Coldheart Canyon, an area of the city so secret that it does not exist on any map. And there, he disappears.
Tammy Looper, president of Pickett's fan club, goes to the City of Angels to investigate his disappearance. However, as she gets closer to her goal, she discovers one by one the dark secrets of the mansion: the hostess Katia Loopy, the long-forgotten leading lady of the big screen, who remains alive and untouched by time a hundred years later; the ghosts of dead stars who spend orgiastic nights in Coldheart Canyon; and finally, the gateway to the Devil's Country, the most gloomy and inhumane corner of Hell, which leaves indelible marks on the soul of every visitor.
And if she wants to find Todd Pickett, she will have to cross its threshold.
"The Secrets of Babylon" is a delightfully dark novel by the multi-talented Clive Barker, combining rawness, lyricism, magic, love, and death in a mosaic of unparalleled imagination and literary brilliance.