Days of Magic, Nights of War
core novel 2004 Abarat
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.23 (15,654 ratings, collected 2026-10-08) |
| Page count | 512 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780060291709 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Candy's adventures in the Abarat grow stranger by the hour. Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, and his fiendish grandmother Mater Motley, who is building an army of stitched-together soldiers on the island of Gorgossium, want her captured, and Carrion prepares for war against the islands of the Day; Candy and Malingo flee from hour to hour across the archipelago, from the Twenty-Fifth Hour's keepers to the carnival island of Babilonium and the dark waters where a giant fish swallows a whole crew. All the while Candy wonders why the Abarat feels familiar to her, and why she can speak words of magic she never learned, until the answer arrives: the spirit of Princess Boa, Carrion's murdered bride, has lived inside her since birth. The second book, which won the Bram Stoker Award for young readers, ends with Candy carried back to Chickentown, and the Abarat following.
Where it sits
- Universe: Abarat
- Series: The Books of Abarat core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Clive Barker
Awards (verified)
- Bram Stoker Award (Best Work for Young Readers), 2004: won; Tied with Steve Burt's Oddest Yet.
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 2 of 3: previous Abarat (2002) · next Absolute Midnight (2011)
Sources
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