Abarat: Absolute Midnight (41 page)

Authors: Clive Barker

BOOK: Abarat: Absolute Midnight

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Hopelessness is reasonable.
But nothing of worth
in my life
came of reason.
Not my love,
not my art,
not my heaven.
So I am hopeful.
—Zephario Carrion

So Ends
The Third Book of Abarat

Abarat: Absolute Midnight

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Barker, Clive.

Absolute midnight / Clive Barker. — 1st ed.

p.cm. — (Abarat ; [bk. 3])

Summary: Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, is the only person who can stop the evil Mater Motley who, now that the hour of midnight has come, is prepared to unleash the end of the world.

ISBN 978-0-06-029171-6

[1. Space and time—Fiction. 2. Fantasy.] I. Title.

PZ7.B25046Ac 2011

[Fic]—dc22

2010042665

CIP

EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062029669

11 12 13 14 15 SCP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

First Edition

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