Abarat 2: Days of Magic, Nights of War. Clive Barker

       I dreamed I spoke in another’s language,

       I dreamed I lived in another’s skin,

       I dreamed I was my own beloved,

       I dreamed I was a tiger’s kin.

       I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,

       And when I breathed a garden came,

       I dreamed I knew all of Creation,

       I dreamed I knew the Creator’s name.

       I dreamed—and this dream was the finest—

       That all I dreamed was real and true,

       And we would live in joy forever,

       You in me, and me in you.

      C.B.

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

PROLOGUE HUNGER

PART ONE FREAKS, FOOLS AND FUGITIVES

1 PORTRAIT OF GIRL AND GESHRAT

2 WHAT THERE IS TO SEE

3 ON THE PARROTO PARROTO

4 THE SCAVENGERS

5 THE SPEAKING OF A WORD

6 TWO CONVERSATIONS

7 SOMETHING OF BABILONIUM

8 A LIFE IN THE THEATRE

9 AGAIN, THE CRISS-CROSS MAN

10 “THE FREAKS ARE OUT! THE FREAKS ARE OUT!”

PART TWO THINGS NEGLECTED, THINGS FORGOTTEN

11 TRAVELING NORTH

12 DARKNESS AND ANTICIPATION

13 THE SACBROOD

14 LAMENT (THE MUNKEE’S TALE)

15 THE PURSUER

       16 THE WUNDERKAMMEN

       17 THE STAR-STRIKER

       18 DEPARTURE

       19 LIFE AND DEATH IN CHICKENTOWN

       20 MALINGO ALONE

       21 NIGHT CONVERSATIONS

       22 A DEATH SENTENCE

       23 DREAMER TO DREAMER

       24 HUSBAND AND WIFE

       25 FATES

       26 KASPAR IS VISITED

       27 ABDUCTION

       28 A SUMMONING

       PART THREE A TIME OF MONSTERS

       29 THE CAPTAIN CONVERSES

       30 THE BEASTS OF EFREET

       31 NEWS IN NONCE

       32 EVENTS AT THE THRESHOLD

       33 A VISIT TO MARAPOZSA STREET

       34 SECRETS AND MEAT LOAF

       35 TWO IN NINETEEN

       36 THE BRIDEGROOM UNEARTHED

       37 THE OWNER OF THE DEAD MAN’S HOUSE

       38 MIDNIGHT’S HEART

       39 DRAGON BONES

       40 A TALE OF ENDLESS PARTINGS

       41 AN AMBITIOUS CONJURATION