I also have hardback, first edition copies of the other two books, Abarat and Days of Magic, Nights of War. The novel is the third volume in Barker’s Abarat series. A decent living could be made from interpreting the way the cards fell. Kithit might find the past murmuring, the present in doubt, and the future barely opening its eyes. He only ever used the Abaratian tarot deck, wherein a reader as expert as Mr. The cards he read were not designed for games of chance. Kithit, and several others besides, but none of the names were truly his. looked south over the darkened straits toward the island of Gorgossium, there was a house, its facade much decorated, set high upon the cliffs. ON THE EARLY COAST of Idjit, where two a.m. And Candy is going to need to make some choices that will change her life forever… 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.Ī final war is about to begin. 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. 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? Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to capture her. In this, the third volume in Clive Barker’s extraordinary fantasy for both adults and children, Candy’s adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting stranger by the Hour. 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.Ĭandy 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… Harper Voyager, 2011, First Edition (Hardback)Ī dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the third part of a quintet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. ©2002 Clive Barker (P)2002 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.Abarat (Absolute Midnight) by Clive Barker Forces older than Time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered. Where? To the Abarat: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from The Great Head that sits in the mysterious twilight waters of Eight in the Evening, to the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of Gorgossium, the island of Midnight, ruled over by the Prince of Midnight himself, Christopher Carrion.Ĭandy has a place in this extraordinary world: she is here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart. Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live on the horns on his head), leaps into the surging waters and is carried away. When the answer comes, it's not one she expects. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A.
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