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Abarat: Absolute Midnight
Clive Barker
Johnny 2.0 Raymond
Mark Miller
Robbie Humphreys
There’ll be no sun tomorrow morning.
There’ll be no moon to bless the night.
The stars will perish without warning.
These lines proclaim the death of light.
Contents
Cover
Epigraph
Prologue: What the Blind Man Saw
Part One: The Dark Hours
Chapter 1. Toward Twilight
Chapter 2. The Council Speaks its Minds
Chapter 3. The Wisdom of the Mob
Chapter 4. The Kid
Chapter 5. Remnants of Wickedness
Chapter 6. Under Jibarish
Chapter 7. The Sorrows of the Bad Son
Chapter 8. Laguna Munn
Part Two: You, or Not I
Chapter 9. A New Tyranny
Chapter 10. The Sorrows of the Good Son
Chapter 11. Severance
Chapter 12. One Becomes Two
Chapter 13. Boa
Chapter 14. Empty
Chapter 15. Face-to-Face
Chapter 16. Laguna Munn Angered
Chapter 17. Snake Talk
Chapter 18. An EndGame
Chapter 19. The Price of Freedom
Part Three: Many Magics
Chapter 20. Tomorrow, Today
Chapter 21. Boa at Midnight
Chapter 22. Turning Away
Chapter 23. Cold Life
Chapter 24. At the Preacher’s House
Chapter 25. No More Lies
Part Four: The Dawning of the Dark
Chapter 26. The Church of the Children of Eden
Chapter 27. Interrogation
Chapter 28. Altarpiece
Chapter 29. Midnight has Wings
Chapter 30. Draining the Ghost
Chapter 31. The Flock
Chapter 32. Sacrilege
Chapter 33. No Stranger Now
Chapter 34. Unfinished
Chapter 35. Stealing Away
Chapter 36. The Shadow-Shroud
Chapter 37. Love and War
Chapter 38. An Old Trick
Chapter 39. Looking Forward, Looking Back
Chapter 40. Bones and Laughter
Chapter 41. Dragon Dust
Chapter 42. The Fiends
Chapter 43. Dark Waters
Chapter 44. Pariah
Part Five: Stormwalker
Chapter 45. The Business of Empire
Chapter 46. Talking of Mysteries
Chapter 47. Convergence
Chapter 48. Smiles
Chapter 49. Of Those Who Walk Behind the Stars
Chapter 50. Out of the Deep
Chapter 51. Father and Son
Chapter 52. Atrocities
Part Six: There is No Tomorrow
Chapter 53. Forgiveness
Chapter 54. The Empress in her Glory
Chapter 55. Below
Chapter 56. The Hand in Fire
Chapter 57. A Knife for Every Heart
Chapter 58. Now, Because
Chapter 59. A Whisper of Infinitude
Chapter 60. Abarataraba
Part Seven: Oblivion’s Call
Chapter 61. Missing
Chapter 62. The Volcano and the Void
Chapter 63. Pigs
Chapter 64. No Plan B
Chapter 65. Lullaby
Chapter 66. Love, Too Late
Chapter 67. Yat Yut Yah
Chapter 68. Deliverance
Chapter 69. For Every Knife, Five Hearts
Chapter 70. Nothing But Stones
Chapter 71. An Execution
Chapter 72. Truth
Chapter 73. Souls
Chapter 74. The Hammer of the Nephauree
Chapter 75. The End of the World
Chapter 76. And Beyond
Copyright
Prologue What the Blind Man Saw
Dream!
Forge yourself and rise
Out of your mind and into others.
Men, be women.