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Abarat
Clive Barker
A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the first of a quartet.Abarat: an archipelago of amazement and wonder. A land made up of twenty-five islands, each one representing one hour of the day, each one a unique place of adventure and danger (and one mysterious place out of time), all ruled over by the evil Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, and his monstrous grandmother, Mater Motley.Candy Quackenbush, a 16-year old from Chickentown, Minnesota, crosses by accident from our world into Abarat, and discovers she has been there many, many times before. She has friends there and she has enemies. As Candy makes her journey between all the islands of the archipelago, she will discover a plot by Christopher Carrion to block out the Sun, Moon and stars to achieve a condition of Permanent Midnight. In order to prevent this disaster, Candy must find the courage to confront the Lord of Midnight; and in doing so come to know who she really is: a revelation which will transform her own understanding of her place in the epic events.The first book of Abarat is a spellbinding adventure for all ages, combining the heartstopping tension of a thriller with the powerful charm of the most enduring fable. And beneath all, it possesses the quicksilver imagination of one of the finest writers at work today. The four books of Abarat have been rightly called Clive Barker’s Narnia, his Wonderland. A sumptuous treat that will capture the imaginations of adults and children alike.
CLIVE BARKER
Abarat
Copyright (#u1555276c-0c49-5f99-89e9-b0674a8986d9)
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First published in 2002
Copyright © 2002 by Clive Barker
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PRAISE FOR CLIVE BARKER AND ABARAT (#u1555276c-0c49-5f99-89e9-b0674a8986d9)
“Above all, this is a deeply lovely catalogue of the strange. Islands carved into colossal heads, giant moths made of coloured ether, words that turn into aeroplanes, tentacled maggot-monsters: they dance past like a carnival, a true surrender to the weird.”
Guardian
“Always creating and always pushing into the farthest reaches of the human mind, [Barker] is an artist in every sense of the word. He is the great imaginer of our time.”
QUENTIN TARANTINO
“Clive Barker is a magician of the first order”
New York Daily News
“Keeps you effortlessly turning the pages”
New York Times Magazine
“A blend of Alice in Wonderland and The Lion, The Witchand the Wardrobe”
Entertainment Weekly
“Clever, but oh so creepy”
People
To Emilian David Armstrong
I dreamed a limitless book,
A book unbound,
Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance.
On every line there was a new horizon drawn,
New heavens supposed;
New states, new souls.
One of those souls,
Dozing through some imagined afternoon,
Dreamed these words.
And needing a hand to set them down,
Made mine.
C. B.
CONTENTS
Title Page (#uf42a57ca-9432-5fe7-bb08-1a8206e4717c)
Copyright (#u9ec60ada-b0f6-59df-89a6-bcfaf795e576)
Praise (#ub2431c0e-fd6b-5cbf-b553-f0e702c35b1f)
Epigraph (#u34d57521-a0c1-5eb0-92d1-249714cca484)
PROLOGUE: THE MISSION (#uba9174f5-ee95-5c8f-89da-ba8b689c992a)
PART ONE: MORNINGTIDE (#u90b4950a-de47-548c-85ec-409cc63245eb)
1. Room Nineteen; (#u1d1e6cd9-69b0-5733-8669-0ea7563e3820)
2. What Henry Murkitt Left Behind; (#ueb114316-7c60-572a-8a0d-10f40cca8579)
3. Doodle; (#ub2572227-ac26-5923-a818-6afc4d0e454f)
4. “Street Ends” (#ua7eb9a73-b9e8-550e-9c76-e1c3b71a6b67)
5. A Shore Without a Sea (#udb5135c7-f094-5cc2-ae9e-ecf3af9b8e82)
6. The Lady Ascends (#ucbbd55a4-3df5-50ec-a3a5-52f086eb8dff)
7. Light and Water (#u8ff997ec-098d-5f2a-b35a-95c6713a5b56)
8. A Moment with Melissa (#ue2b23932-dbfe-50e9-871f-fdf164365041)
9. Events on the Jetty (#u0a3cb385-0251-5b44-96c5-ab8716a926dc)
PART TWO: TWILIGHT AND BEYOND (#ua83587c1-4436-5f8d-be46-79fa263063b9)
10. The Waters 97 (#u1b04d854-8bb3-52ca-be82-c43660ced659)
11. The Card Players (#ub20c09ee-cbd3-57e3-a49f-045295cf1e11)
12. A Talk on the Tide (#u06489e70-c958-5b3c-99ea-bbc3856e3ea1)
13. In The Great Head (#ua5d79372-a476-52e5-afe9-0498c74aa5ee)
14. Carrion (#u38a19737-553d-59fd-abda-83fe4ee0aff6)
PART THREE: WHERE IS WHEN? (#u45752d89-9cbc-5281-9f15-4a74fcef2752)
15. Bug 153 (#ub5bd4f3a-d499-54d6-a3f6-9dd197a90ca5)
16. The Universal Eye (#u4a605f56-1dad-541a-adc9-20909f588c9a)
17. Almenak (#u5785ecea-8366-537d-be1a-feb13ad139d9)
18. The Tale of Hark’s Harbor (#ubacb5779-08d3-5f89-bb82-fbd0a9561da9)
19. On Vesper’s Rock (#ud40ef347-b2d5-5c0e-b9b4-94d1f7027074)
20. The World Through Borrowed Eyes (#u0f05e4a2-6cd9-59f1-bd7a-72c79d8b3430)
21. The Hunt (#ubd7abbd7-cabf-514c-8104-b48b0474a5a9)
PART FOUR: WICKED STRANGE (#u8723abb2-fa80-5aef-88e1-321f12444feb)
22. In Gallows Forest (#ue03212d4-3752-5e7f-bb70-11e701b04809)
23. The Man Who Made the Kid (#u792bd66f-e372-50a2-a142-3eea525b94b5)
24. Digger and Dragons (#u0ad0554b-5e51-56a3-b081-bb53b673c13e)
25. Mischief Undone (#u23139e21-b08a-5cf2-8153-d3c484ded9dc)
26. The House of Lies (#u0040d190-a575-5674-af5f-51b716fc7c5c)
27. Words with the Criss-Cross Man (#u53680bc3-3f7b-5bc0-b7e5-c7ad7be113ba)
28. A Slave’s Soul (#u0e273a9c-cba5-5431-a28d-d425cfe09fa7)
29. Cat’s Eyes (#ub34522e5-34d3-5771-98cc-b9709252ae15)
30. “Come Thou Glyph to Me” (#u06ad83a0-ad07-5493-8388-14da0ed2a6f2)
31. The Twenty-Fifth Hour (#u0c7148b3-8220-5472-90d2-80d1cc04b635)
32. Monsoon (#u579d64b8-0ea1-529b-a8fe-1424dcc38673)
33. All Things in Time (#u72069e94-e1f3-5c5f-854f-a821d2b78d37)
34. Different Destinies (#u5ce51df7-49f5-5c24-9b27-f455f5baee0b)
Keep Reading (#u3fe0f1a7-fd61-5c11-9e3c-dc6bcf73373b)
Appendix: Some Excerpts From Klepp’s Almenak (#u16c85ba3-8858-5468-a8e0-25dff78aed60)
Excerpt (#u858ec193-9eae-5ffb-a630-c2ec280f1c5c)
Prologue (#ua60dd9e2-c8de-5dc2-a360-471dce292259)
PART ONE: Freaks, Fools And Fujitives (#u03f1d0e1-ebfa-54c8-8cbf-dc7aeb901240)
Chapter One: Portriat Of Girl And Geshrat (#u91fe8091-810a-5c97-9b87-b6a33641ed7b)
About the Author (#u03bd2b40-e514-5799-86c1-21d1b35d89fd)
Also By Clive Barker (#uc3db5069-902f-544b-ae28-90812498f2c7)
About the Publisher (#u1430e3dd-f8fa-5a4f-8552-1b78766fb54f)
PROLOGUE (#u1555276c-0c49-5f99-89e9-b0674a8986d9)
THE MISSION (#u1555276c-0c49-5f99-89e9-b0674a8986d9)
Three is the number of those who do holy work;Two is the number of those who do lover’s work;One is the number of those who do perfect evilOr perfect good.
—From the notes of a monk
of the Order of St. Oco;
