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      CLIVE BARKER

      Abarat

       Copyright

      HarperVoyager An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in 2002

      Copyright © 2002 by Clive Barker

      Clive Barker asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780006513704

      Ebook Edition © JANUARY 2009 ISBN: 9780007301690

      Version: 2017-11-02

       PRAISE FOR CLIVE BARKER AND ABARAT

      “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 Witch and 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

       Copyright

       Praise

       Epigraph

       PROLOGUE: THE MISSION

       PART ONE: MORNINGTIDE

       1. Room Nineteen;

       2. What Henry Murkitt Left Behind;

       3. Doodle;

       4. “Street Ends”

       5. A Shore Without a Sea

       6. The Lady Ascends

       7. Light and Water

       8. A Moment with Melissa

       9. Events on the Jetty

       PART TWO: TWILIGHT AND BEYOND

       10. The Waters 97

       11. The Card Players

       12. A Talk on the Tide

       13. In The Great Head

       14. Carrion

       PART THREE: WHERE IS WHEN?

       15. Bug 153

       16. The Universal Eye

       17. Almenak

       18. The Tale of Hark’s Harbor

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