

Meanwhile, the Lord of Midnight – Christopher Carrion, has set forth his despicable plans to create a permanent midnight across the Abarat. Only a few weeks have passed and now Candy Quackenbush, together with her new travelling companion Malingo the Geshrat, have continued their island hopping escapades in the hope of evading the grasp of the notorious master bounty hunter - Otto Houlihan. The book tied with Steve Burt’s short story collection ‘Oddest Yet’ (2004) for the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers.

Where is when? Can you remember which island is at which hour.First published back in October of 2004, ‘Abarat: Days Of Magic, Nights Of War’ formed the second instalment into Clive Barker’s ‘Books of Abarat’ series. Worry not and click on the words below, for the Abaratian Lexicon holds the answers! Your Juffet Bird? Can you remember Candy's middle name? Or what Prince Quiffin or Legitimate Eddie look like? More detail on Books Four and Five of the Abarat series can be found by clicking on the image below.Ībarat has now been published in over 40 countries - click the globe to see how different it can look.Ĭlive has invented an entire world in writing Abarat - and everything needs a name! Watch the Abarat Absolute Midnight trailer here now! This edition also now includes an updated glossary and hints of what is yet to come in the final books of Abarat.Īvailable on the iBookstore from 1 March 2012 at £5.99 / $8.99 Featuring Clive’s work-in-progress illustrations for all three volumes, this full-colour edition also looks at Clive's writing and painting styles and features an extended, in-depth interview with Clive done by a classroom of young Abarat readers. The revised edition of Beneath the Surface includes new material from the latest volume of Clive Barker’s Abarat – Absolute Midnight. The paperback edition of Absolute Midnight was released in the UK on 11 October 2012Ĭlick on the images below to find out more!Ĭlive is still painting and the canvases for Books Four and Five are currently filling up his house. Abarat: Absolute Midnight was published in September 2011. War - followed in September 2004, with both volumes spreading across the world in foreign language editions. The first volume - called simply Abarat - was published in October 2002 and the second volume - Abarat : Days of Magic, Nights of The Book Of Hours became a whole world - The Abarat - and as the paintings kept coming, so the story grew and grew into a series of

The illustrations for a collection of 25 tales a 'Book of Hours' which would describe all the emotions of a day, hour by hour (with an In 1995 Clive began painting huge dream-images which were wholly unlike his previous paintings.
