Abarat
Cover of Abarat | | Author | Clive Barker | | Illustrator | Clive Barker | | Cover artist | Clive Barker | | Country | U.S.A. | | Language | English | | Series | The Books of Abarat | | Subject(s) | I. Title. II. Series | | Genre(s) | Fantasy | | Publisher | Harper-Collins | | Publication date | September 1, 2002 | | Pages | 388 pgs | | ISBN | 0-06-028092-1 | | Followed by | Days of Magic, Nights of War | Abarat is a fantasy book both written and illustrated by Clive Barker aimed primarily at young adults. The title refers to the land of the Abarat, which is where the majority of the story so far is set. There are three planned sequels to Abarat. Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War; Absolute Midnight; The Eternal; and an as of yet unnamed fifth book, making it a five part series. He believes this necessary to introduce all of the plot elements needed for a climactic ending. Cover of the Book Abarat, taken from the Library of Congress Section of the San Diego On-Line Catalog (see link for details)[1] This image is a book cover. ...
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Absolute Midnight is the not-yet-published third book in Clive Barkers Abarat series. ...
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Introduction The book Abarat is centred on the land of the Abarat, a strange world which has twenty-five islands, called Hours, on each of which it is always the same time. For example, on the island of Pyon, it is always 3:00 in the morning. The only exception is the mysterious, magnificent, 25th Hour which is sometimes feared by the people of the Abarat. The arrival of Candy Quackenbush from Chickentown, Minnesota sparks a series of remarkable events around the Abarat as Candy journeys about the islands of the land, seemingly on random after a spur of the moment decision to enter Abarat. A fictional character created by Clive Barker, Candy Quackenbush is a teenaged girl who is the main character and heroine of the Abarat Quintet. ...
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Islands of the Abarat The Islands of Abarat are each based around a time of day (except for the 25th hour). - 1:00 a.m. The Pyramids of Xuxux
- 2:00 a.m. Idjit
- 3:00 a.m. Pyon
- 4:00 a.m. Isle of the Black Egg
- 5:00 a.m. Speckle Frew
- 6:00 a.m. Efreet
- 7:00 a.m. Autland
- 8:00 a.m. Obadiah
- 9:00 a.m. Qualm Hah
- 10:00 a.m. Spake
- 11:00 a.m. Nully
12:00 p.m. Yzil The island of Yzil is a lush and temperate forest. Legend has it that the Princess Breath makes her home on the island; it is here where she is said to breathe out powerful, magical breezes that flow to other islands and create new life and vegetation.
1:00 p.m. Hobarookus Hobarookus is a small, rocky and swampy island that swarms with pirates and buccaneers. The food there is astounding. Kalukwa birds, a curious species of bird which hatches downy human babies every ninth year are common throughout the swampy areas, called the Sinks. These babies are commonly taken and raised by the pirates.
2:00 p.m. Orlando's Cap Orlando's Cap is a small, ill-favored island. It is here that an insane asylum is located, because the founder believed that the 2:00 hour promotes healing in the soul. Patients are apparently allowed the run of the islands, and have been given permission to follow artistic methods of healing, which means that there are many weird and wonderful sculptures and objects created the by patients.
3:00 p.m. The Nonce The Nonce is a beautiful, drowsy island. Most people who visit fall asleep quickly, and do not have ordinary dreams. They dream of creation- specifically, The Creation or the beginning of the world. It is here that John Mischief and his brothers are taken to dig and look for Finnegan Hob. This is also the place where they find Finnegan Hob
4:00 p.m. Gnomon This island is riddled with the ruins of temples and Oracles. On many parts of the island, the air is filled with thousands of whispering voices, all sounding at once. It is believed that these are the voices of the ghosts of the inhabitants of Gnomon. There are many roads on the island that lead to nowhere, thus leading to the theory that Gnomon was once part of the island of Soma Plume.
5:00 p.m. Soma Plume Soma Plume is a large island, twice the size of Gnomon. It houses the Great Noahic Ziggurat, a place that has been used for burial since the beginning of time.
6:00 p.m. Babilonium This is an island of fun and pleasure. It is really one big carnival-- a place of rides, comedic plays, freak shows, and all other manners of entertainment imaginable.
7:00 p.m. Scoriae -
Scoriae is the meeting place of night and day, also know as The Island of Lengthening Shadows. It has on it a volcano known as Galigali and the Twilight Palace, once belonging to King Claus of Day. Galigali has destroyed 3 great cities in its time: Gosh, Divinium, and Mycassius. Not one person survived the eruption. However, stark ruins of the cities still remain. Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...
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8:00 p.m. Yebba Dim Day This island, also known as The Great Head, is a sort of informal capital for the islands. It is, in fact, fashioned in the shape of a giant head, in the likeness of its old owner Gorki Doodat. It is a labyrinth of tunnels on the inside, and the outside is mostly covered by shabby dwellings, save for the half-dozen high towers on top of Gorki's skull. Some of these towers are said to contain individuals of immeasurable age. This is Candy's first destination in the Abarat. A Roman mosaic picturing Theseus and the Minotaur. ...
9:00 p.m. Huffaker Huffaker is a large island, peppered with huge rock formations resembling natural caverns and cathedrals, the largest of which being Hap's Vault. Lydia Hap- after whom a particular cavern was named- claims that the vault (which she refers to as the Chamber of the Skein) is in fact the origin of the so-called Abaratic Skein. Hap has described this phenomenon as a thread of light which connects literally everything in every world to everything else. Alternate meanings: Cave (disambiguation) The outside world viewed from a cave A cave is a natural underground void. ...
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10:00 p.m. Ninnyhammer This island has almost no noteworthy characteristics, save for a small town known as High Sladder, which has been taken over by the tribe of Jimothi Tarrie and his feral tarrie-cats. On the northeast side of the island is the wizard Kasper Wolfswinkel's house, which some have mistaken for a giant eye because of the glass observatory in the roof. A human eye Eyes are organs of vision that detect light. ...
11:00 p.m. Jibarish Though most of this Island is bare rock, if one looks away from the rock for but a moment, the rock will have changed and flowed to resemble some other shape. Here the rock is fluid, fire is cold, water is iron, and the air is a power in its own right- transforming any spoken word into complete gibberish, hence the name. Jibarish is a place of paradoxes and confusion. The island is occupied by a tribe of unfriendly-at-best women. Men are definitely not welcome here. This balancing rock, Steamboat Rock stands in Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs, CO The rocky side of a mountain creek near OrosÃ, Costa Rica. ...
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12:00 a.m. (Midnight) Gorgossium The island of Midnight is a dark mountain cloaked in red mists. On top is the fortress Iniquisit, a palace of thirteen towers (though only one is still standing). The Carrion clan has occupied this Hour long before the emergence of any written record. Rumored features on the island include a forest of gallows and a garden of flesh-eating plants. This island is also home to the infamous Prince of darkness, a.k.a. Christopher Carrion and his grandmother. He is generally known as the cruelest and most evil person in all of the islands of the Abarat, though in reality his cruelty is probably surpassed by that of his grandmother, Mater Motley. Inquisit is a Castle in the fictional land of Abarat. ...
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A fictional character created by Clive Barker, Christopher Carrion is the main antagonist in the Abarat series by Clive Barker. ...
The 25th Hour or Odom's Spire The Twenty-Fifth Hour, commonly referred to as the Time Out of Time, also goes by the name of Odom's Spire. Odom's Spire is the home of Diamanda, Joephi, and Mespa: the three sisters of the Fantomaya. The island is also home to Abraham-- keeper of Odom's Spire-- as well as his assistants brother Tempus and brother Julius, referred to as the Fugit Brothers.
Though there are other small landmasses amongst the larger Islands of the archipelago, few of them are large enough to be considered "islands." Few of these landmasses have names, however there are some of note.
Characters of the Abarat Series
Candy Quackenbush -
Candy, the heroine of the series, is a young misfit (notably with heterochromia; her left eye is brown, while the right is blue) from Chickentown. Around 14 years old, her teachers and peers mock her, and her verbally and physically abusive father doesn't understand her. After walking out on school after a particularly harsh chastising by her teacher Miss Schwartz, Candy soon finds herself in a field of grass on the edge of town. Amongst other things, Candy discovers a large, dilapitated tower. Her encounter with John Mischief and his brothers begins the series of events which eventually leads her to the Islands of the Abarat. Her many adventures slowly begin to reveal Candy as something more than a simple school girl. It is believed that she has been to the Abarat before. A fictional character created by Clive Barker, Candy Quackenbush is a teenaged girl who is the main character and heroine of the Abarat Quintet. ...
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John Mischief John Mischief and his seven brothers share a single body: that of John Mischief, who has antlers on his head. From these antlers sprout seven smaller heads, each of them a particular brother with his own unique personality. Their names are John Fillet, John Sallow, John Moot, John Drowze, John Pluckitt, John Serpent, and John Slop. Together, they are master thieves, and as such are wanted for grand larceny on several Hours. They are the first Arabatians Candy meets. Later on they volunteer for a digging job on the Nonce, searching for a man called Finnegan Hob in a bid to escape the island of Yebba Dim Day. Theft (also known as stealing) is, in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ...
The Fantomaya The Fantomaya are three old women who appear to be the good witches and dwell on Odom's Spire, or the 25th Hour. They are Diamanda, an old wise-woman, Joephi, who appears feral and wild, and Mespa, who is dark-skinned with eyes the color of the night sky. They are very mysterious, and little is known about them, other than the implication that they have the power and will to aid Candy in her inadvertent quest to save the Abarat from Christopher Carrion and his grandmother. This article is part of the Witchcraft series. ...
Christopher Carrion -
Also known as the Prince of Midnight, Christopher Carrion is described as being "As evil as evil comes." His grandmother, Thant Yeyla Carrion,once sewed his lips shut for saying the word "love". Although he once believed he could love and be good, he was crushed by the only woman he wanted to be with, Princess Boa, whom he is suspected to have had assassinated. His nightmares take physical shape as creatures residing in a fishbowl-like tank which forms a collar around his neck and the lower half of his face. Tubes attached to the back of his skull allow the nightmares free passage from the depths of his head to the bluish fluid which fills this nightmarish collar. These nightmares are used to punish and toture, and seem to respond to his commands as though they have intelligence. He seems to have taken an unexplained interest in Candy, and seems intent on taking her alive when he could have had her killed. A fictional character created by Clive Barker, Christopher Carrion is the main antagonist in the Abarat series by Clive Barker. ...
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Thant Yeyla Carrion Commonly known as Mater Motley or merely The Hag, Thant is Christopher Carrion's grandmother. It is hinted that she has been alive for an extraordinarily long amount of time. She spends all of her time sewing stitchlings, animated beings made out of leather, cloth, and mud, to help with her and Christopher's plan to lay siege on the Islands of Day. She and Christopher were the only members of the Carrion clan to have survived the fire that destroyed their mansion (it killed Carrion's 27 siblings as well as his parents). She says that she chose to save Christopher and she wants to have extreme control over him.
Malingo -
Malingo is a geshrat, an orange-skinned creature with four small horns on the top of his head, yellow eyes, and fan-shaped ears coming out of the sides of his head. He is a good climber and knows a certain amount of magic. He was a slave to Kaspar Wolfswinkel-who beat him daily- before Candy arrived on Ninnyhammer and freed him. They fled from Wolfswinkel together, becoming very close friends and companions, and set off for freedom and adventures which are chronicled in the following books. Malingo is a gehsrat, a fictional character is the Abarat series by Clive Barker. ...
References Barker, Clive- Appendix (or "Klepp's Almanac") found in the back of Abarat, HarperCollins publishers, 2002
Barker, Clive- Abarat, HarperCollins publishers, 2002
The Official Clive Barker Resource
The Official HarperCollins Abarat site
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