Absolute Midnight
core novel 2011 Abarat
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.12 (6,234 ratings, collected 2026-10-08) |
| Page count | 592 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780060291716 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
After the events of Days of Magic, Nights of War, Candy Quackenbush goes to the enchantress Laguna Munn to have the soul of Princess Boa separated from her own, and discovers that the princess, once free, is not the gentle spirit the Abarat remembers. Meanwhile Mater Motley, Carrion's grandmother, has her own design for the islands: Absolute Midnight, an endless dark that will swallow every hour of the Abarat under a sky of sacbrood, blotting out the sun and the moon alike, and the war she unleashes with her army of stitchlings and the Hour of Midnight's monsters sweeps across the archipelago. Candy, Malingo and the friends gathered over the first two books are scattered across the darkened islands, Carrion returns from the dead, and the book ends with the Abarat in ruin and its story unfinished. The third book, published seven years after the second.
Where it sits
- Universe: Abarat
- Series: The Books of Abarat core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Clive Barker
Notes
- From the series record (The Books of Abarat): Clive Barker's illustrated young-adult fantasy of Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, and the Abarat, an archipelago of twenty-five islands, one for each hour of the day plus one out of time. Planned as five books, painted before they were written; three published, the fourth (Kry Rising) long announced.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Books of Abarat: position 3 of 3: previous Days of Magic, Nights of War (2004)
Sources
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