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Abarat 2: Days of Magic, Nights of War
Clive Barker
A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the second part of a quartet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Film rights sold to Disney for $8 million on the paintings alone.The Abarat; a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands – one for each hour of the day, plus an island out of time.Candy Quackenbush, escaping her dull, dull life from the most boring place in our world, Chickentown, USA, finds that in the Abarat she has another existence entirely, one which links her to marvels and mysteries–and even to murder…In this, the second volume in Clive Barker's extraordinary fantasy for both adults and children, Candy's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the Hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't even remember learning?There is a mystery here. And Carrion, along with his fiendish grandmother, Mater Motley, suspects that whatever Candy is, she could spoil his plans to take control of the Abarat.Now Candy's companions must race against time to save her from the clutches of Carrion, and she must solve the mystery of her past before the forces of Night and Day clash and Absolute Midnight descends upon the islands.A final war is about to begin. And Candy is going to need to make some choices that will change her life forever…
Abarat 2
Days of Magic, Nights of War
Clive Barker
For my mother,Joan
I dreamed I spoke in another’s language,
I dreamed I lived in another’s skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger’s kin.
I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator’s name.
I dreamed—and this dream was the finest—
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you.
C.B.
Table of Contents
Cover Page (#u620df851-f7a4-51f4-a213-472f7aebfe69)
Title Page (#ubde5f20a-c640-5e14-91e2-9bc092a2bff1)
Dedication (#ua67bbd83-65e8-5952-b78a-3d12cdeda1d0)
Epigraph (#u0c50751e-b2c2-5c38-9b30-039e84f90306)
PROLOGUE HUNGER (#u6d4d2c1c-96ba-58e8-b5be-081658b2ab05)
PART ONE FREAKS, FOOLS AND FUGITIVES (#ua259b459-4678-53e8-89d1-36124c73c483)
1 PORTRAIT OF GIRL AND GESHRAT (#ub997d7e9-523f-52de-b4cd-32232d1a7049)
2 WHAT THERE IS TO SEE (#u908eb8d5-0286-580c-aefd-109ebba1e078)
3 ON THE PARROTO PARROTO (#ub2b565b4-8235-5350-9f8a-efdbb5e39877)
4 THE SCAVENGERS (#ucdcefaf2-c2cb-5f6e-9815-8c1f0ee77947)
5 THE SPEAKING OF A WORD (#u91c79472-a621-517b-ab98-8e50c9839149)
6 TWO CONVERSATIONS (#u0bf549a2-2cbd-57cd-a307-729b12b3d903)
7 SOMETHING OF BABILONIUM (#u7002c97b-8933-5405-8810-f47e7f843577)
8 A LIFE IN THE THEATRE (#u351938ad-3bb5-51f5-8d6d-7577fe003241)
9 AGAIN, THE CRISS-CROSS MAN (#uf3d431ec-791b-5a92-aaea-0b7e19a95c90)
10 “THE FREAKS ARE OUT! THE FREAKS ARE OUT!” (#u571c43b5-cddc-50e2-97b6-811bd0f385b6)
PART TWO THINGS NEGLECTED, THINGS FORGOTTEN (#u72bd3318-772e-5657-8c37-6a53d58a81a0)
11 TRAVELING NORTH (#ue4e76f93-376c-5f54-98f9-f66a15243cbe)
12 DARKNESS AND ANTICIPATION (#u5818b2d6-b0ef-53b0-9935-46c4ee2ffc45)
13 THE SACBROOD (#ubae3be49-4b4f-5dce-b0ee-9663d1edf3e8)
14 LAMENT (THE MUNKEE’S TALE) (#u12f31d37-2b77-5a84-94c6-8bd6b6557907)
15 THE PURSUER (#u299545db-7dd4-5b17-9265-485ec7ea8d2c)
16 THE WUNDERKAMMEN (#u75478b66-3e42-5cba-bcb3-82301075c2d6)
17 THE STAR-STRIKER (#ude5f23c6-9d36-5bc4-a036-03347d250651)
18 DEPARTURE (#u35d8133a-3476-5308-8f6f-448c696e7544)
19 LIFE AND DEATH IN CHICKENTOWN (#u6f278899-5bad-52a2-9d68-ecadc8d38d68)
20 MALINGO ALONE (#u8a3f8444-854a-59f7-bf7a-3e0919e5265f)
21 NIGHT CONVERSATIONS (#ubf083534-3582-5798-9053-c0e2e85c1888)
22 A DEATH SENTENCE (#u79446373-d0d3-5db6-9b8b-f80e32df45a7)
23 DREAMER TO DREAMER (#ue69c23b9-bc34-58b9-bebb-292b2d07464f)
24 HUSBAND AND WIFE (#u299b5db0-f3d7-5649-98db-3a4ab4f967ef)
25 FATES (#ub2d25d48-b1af-5e67-90fb-b960c1a6043e)
26 KASPAR IS VISITED (#u78a9ec12-7290-53d1-b954-70c81245f21f)
27 ABDUCTION (#udbea34a7-7637-584b-954b-8072713d592b)
28 A SUMMONING (#u4c586c0f-5e35-5998-a06e-d6e975894d12)
PART THREE A TIME OF MONSTERS (#u2c1afbf5-eaf1-57a6-9cdc-1a36076bea4c)
29 THE CAPTAIN CONVERSES (#u4dae5c1a-bc73-5670-a584-d82a93df8091)
30 THE BEASTS OF EFREET (#uc3b65fee-3f68-555c-bb26-546f7fd75d16)
31 NEWS IN NONCE (#u0de93ca5-3f0a-526e-b238-dd96c8c0543c)
32 EVENTS AT THE THRESHOLD (#u0eaaa9ae-b190-5426-9892-87b366edfc62)
33 A VISIT TO MARAPOZSA STREET (#u082c1bab-b3a8-5f7b-b023-5d95a5de1d4c)
34 SECRETS AND MEAT LOAF (#u7857a033-d740-5c54-90f0-dd2fc044b15b)
35 TWO IN NINETEEN (#u0ba97ff0-1df2-5bce-9437-9e9091a4e149)
36 THE BRIDEGROOM UNEARTHED (#u248db695-2c7f-5b67-b7a5-147fac4ac6be)
37 THE OWNER OF THE DEAD MAN’S HOUSE (#ue5c57767-5cc8-56d7-98a0-b88630f40e9f)
38 MIDNIGHT’S HEART (#u9fd9c3e1-f73e-561e-8cf4-35295686baf7)
39 DRAGON BONES (#u8101a73e-47bf-5b0d-8204-8956afbdba76)
40 A TALE OF ENDLESS PARTINGS (#u15230149-c96d-5628-8107-c40069d4e9e6)
41 AN AMBITIOUS CONJURATION (#u27846dd9-8aca-5e8e-84ea-a1140b85b68c)
42 THE HIGH MAZE (#u2f74ecd3-eec2-519a-835b-415983650f1f)
43 THE DARK DENIED (#u4618681e-1b72-56c9-b534-7b2b92e38f79)
44 THE PRINCE AND THE BEAST-BOY (#ud15f1cee-64ae-50cc-820b-df4510a0bb0e)
45 A DECISION (#uf44e0e65-503f-5c58-a418-a274f994a6ef)
PART FOUR THE SEA COMES TO CHICKENTOWN (#uba6b17f6-fdf5-5d49-86ce-b21689382253)
46 DEPARTURES (#ua1490695-c632-59b3-adc4-4d0940255664)
47 SOMETHING IN THE WIND (#u721a64a1-5d7c-598e-82a9-ca7836206fbf)
48 STIRRING THE WATERS (#u21196a4a-ab2d-52d8-aa28-1ac83f35f2ba)
49 INTO THE HEREAFTER (#u54219acd-3ec4-5f1d-9d64-0e90bf492240)
50 FATHER AND DAUGHTER (#u5c9632a3-2111-5cdc-b8ee-17fc679771f9)
51 INTO THE WORMWOOD (#uc369e5c3-f754-5c2b-a30b-d36e8abbe0b0)
52 THE SECRET OF SECRETS (#u42e9f286-c73b-5c6d-b065-6e5f54222988)
53 THE WARSHIP UNMADE (#udc688d44-b8fa-5af5-8876-6a4d533ea8d8)
54 THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (#ueb7445e2-4016-5572-86dc-5491200cfc3d)
55 THE BEGINNING OF THE END (#ub143ef9a-1953-56d4-b81e-b215fa736014)
56 DOWN AND DOWN (#u5d4d64ad-00b2-5864-98ea-9907caeb551f)
57 “NEVER FEAR…” (#ub886bf50-a557-5da8-9a65-7d881ff0c24c)
58 THE RETURN OF THE SEA (#ufb90c3a3-dcb6-55f9-a2e3-63b8a0513f97)
About The Author (#ue6580bb5-f36b-511a-9378-c151aa9047a2)
ALSO BY CLIVE BARKER (#uf6db03e3-d89a-5a17-96e6-60575b29bd03)
PRAISE FOR CLIVE BARKER AND Abarat (#u5c48220b-da32-5508-91f1-93967e886850)
Copyright (#uce6e96f9-9f6f-545e-9821-9cef75e1d744)
About the Publisher (#u38ea225d-5d2b-5583-8203-6878ec022a20)
PROLOGUE HUNGER (#ulink_d1857a12-5247-5794-ba1d-0f0466d3d81d)
Here is a list of fearful things:
The jaws of sharks, a vulture’s wings,
The rabid bite of the dogs of war,
The voice of one who went before.
But most of all the mirror’s gaze,
Which counts us out our numbered days.
—Righteous Bandy, the nomad Poet of Abarat
