Clive Barker Abarat PROLOGUE: the mission PART ONE: morningtide 1. ROOM NINETEEN 2. WHAT HENRY MURKITT LEFT BEHIND 3. DOODLE 4. "STREET ENDS" 5. A SHORE WITHOUT A SEA 6. THE LADY ASCENDS 7. LIGHT AND WATER 8. A MOMENT WITH MELISSA 9. EVENTS ON THE JETTY PART TWO: twilight and beyond 10. THE WATERS 11. THE CARD PLAYERS 12. A TALK ON THE TIDE 13. IN THE GREAT HEAD 14. CARRION PART THREE: where is when? 15. BUG 16. THE UNIVERSAL EYE 17. ALMENAK 18. THE TALE OF HARK'S HARBOR 19. ON VESPER'S ROCK 20. THE WORLD THROUGH BORROWED EYES 21. THE HUNT PART FOUR: wicked strange 22. IN GALLOWS FOREST 23. THE MAN WHO MADE THE KID 24. DIGGER AND DRAGONS 25. MISCHIEF UNDONE 26. THE HOUSE OF LIES 27. WORDS WITH THE CRISS-CROSS MAN 28. A SLAVE'S SOUL 29. CAT'S EYES 30. "COME THOU GLYPH TO ME" 31. THE TWENTY-FIFTH HOUR 32. MONSOON 33. ALL THINGS IN TIME 34. DIFFERENT DESTINIES Appendix: some excerpts from Klepp's Almenak
PART ONE: morningtide Life is short, And pleasures few, And holed the ship, And drowned the crew, But o! But o! How very blue The sea is! —The last poem written by Righteous Bandy, the nomad Poet of Abarat