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Absolute Midnight
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Abarat: Book 3

Absolute Midnight (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Clive Barker (Author) (edit contributors)

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'I know that many of you here have waited years for this Hour,' Mater Motley said, using that voice that, though it was barely conversational in volume, was somehow heard everywhere. 'The waiting is over. Tomorrow there will be no dawn. Only midnight, absolute and eternal.'

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On the early coast of Idjit, where two a.m. looked south over the darkened straits toward the Island of Gorgossium, there was a house, its facade much decorated, set high upon the cliffs.

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Prologue: What the Blind Man Saw


Part One: The Dark Hours
1. Toward Twilight
2. The Council Speak Its Minds
3. The Wisdom of the Mob
4. The Kid
5. Remnants of Wickedness
6. Under Jibarish
7. The Sorrows of the Bad Son
8. Laguna Munn


Part Two: You, or Not I
9. A New Tyranny
10. The Sorrows of the Good Son
11. Severance
12. One Becomes Two
13. Boa
14. Empty
15. Face-to-Face
16. Laguna Munn Angered
17. Snake Talk
18. An Endgame
19. The Price of Freedom


Part Three: Many Magics
20. Tomorrow, Today
21. Boa at Midnight
22. Turning Away
23. Cold Life
24. At the Preacher's House
25. No More Lies


Part Four: The Dawning of the Dark
26. The Church of the Children of Eden
27. Interrogation
28. Altarpiece
29. Midnight Has Wings
30. Draining the Ghost
31. The Flock
32. Sacrilege
33. No Stranger Now
34. Unfinished
35. Stealing Away
36. The Shadow-Shroud
37. Love and War
38. An Old Trick
39. Looking Forward, Looking Back
40. Bones and Laughter
41. Dragon Dust
42. The Fiends
43. Dark Waters
44. Pariah


Part Five: Stormwalker
45. The Business of Empire
46. Talking of Mysteries
47. Convergence
48. Smiles
49. Of Those Who Walk Behind the Stars
50. Out of the Deep
51. Father and Son
52. Atrocities


Part Six: There is no Tomorrow
53. Forgiveness
54. The Empress in Her Glory
55. Below
56. The Hand in Fire
57. A Knife for Every Heart
58. Now, Because
59. A Whisper of Infinitude
60. Abarataraba


Part Seven: Oblivion's Call
61. Missing
62. The Volcano and the Void
63. Pigs
64. No Plan B
65. Lullaby
66. Love, Too Late
67. Yat Yut Yah
68. Deliverance
69. For Every Knife, Five Hearts
70. Nothing But Stones
71. An Execution
72. Truth
73. Souls
74. The Hammer of the Nephauree
75. The End of the World
76. And Beyond

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 3 of 3 in Abarat. (standard series)

Preceded by Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War.

This book is in 2011 Locus Recommended Reading List: Young Adult. (authoritative list)

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  1. Clive Barker (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 27, 2011
ISBN: 0060291710
Page Count: 592

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

This is a young adult novel, but there are some pretty scary parts and artwork. Some violence.

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  • Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

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