Clive Barker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
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Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!
Candy Quackenbush, her allies, and her enemies are back in Abarat: Absolute Midnight, the third book in Clive Barker's New York Times bestselling Abarat series.
"The waiting is over. Tomorrow there will be no dawn. Only midnight, absolute and eternal." Mater Motley, the Old Mother of Darkness herself-following...
2) Abarat
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Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!
All things in their time . . .
Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?
Candy and her companions must solve the mystery of her past before the...
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The horror story your students have been asking you for! The only children's story by the master of horror.
Mr. Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childish whim may be satisfied.
There is a price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and beguiled by Mr. Hood's wonders, does not...
4) Sacrament
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Will Rabjohns, perhaps the most famous wildlife photographer in the world, has made his reputation chronicling the fates of endangered species. But after a terrible accident, Will is left in a coma. And in its depths, he revisits the wildernesses of his youth and relives his life with a mysterious couple who have influenced his life as an artist and a man.
When Will awakens, he sets out on a journey of self-discovery -- one where he will penetrate...
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Los sueños pueden convertirse en pesadillas.
Candy está en el archipiélago de Abarat, huyendo de isla en isla para que no la atrapen los asesinos enviados por Carrion, el Señor de la Medianoche, que conspira para que caiga sobre Abarat la oscuridad más absoluta.
Por suerte, Candy ha comenzado a desarrollar asombrosos poderes mágicos y, junto a sus compañeros, la joven emprende una aventura donde tendrá que tomar decisiones que alterarán la...
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La hora más oscura está cada vez más cerca...
Candy Quackenbush continúa su viaje por el mundo fantástico y feroz de Abarat: un archipiélago donde en cada isla es una hora distinta del día, el eterno teatro de una lucha sin tregua entre luz y oscuridad.
Antiguos presagios empujan a Candy a surcar las aguas del mar de Izabella: todo indica que se acerca una tormenta. Mater Motley está obsesionada con convertirse en la emperatriz de las Islas...
7) Abarat
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A VECES, LOS SUEÑOS NO SON COMO UNO ESPERA
Chickentown es el lugar más aburrido de Estados Unidos, y allí vive Candy Quackenbush, que se pregunta qué será de su futuro. Alberga en su corazón la esperanza de irse lejos de allí y vivir aventuras emocionantes, pero cuando su deseo se cumple no resulta como ella esperaba.
¡Bienvenidos a Abarat!, un extenso archipiélago donde en cada isla es una hora diferente. Candy debe salvar a Abarat de las...
8) It's Alive
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Bram Stoker Award-winner for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction!Nightmares come to life in this comprehensive how-to guide for new and established authors…Book two in Crystal Lake Publishing's The Dream Weaver series picks up where the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Where Nightmares Come From left off.It's Alive focuses on learning the craft in order to take your story from concept to completion.With an introduction by Richard Chizmar and cover art...
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WHERE NIGHTMARES COME FROM
THE ART OF STORYTELLING IN THE HORROR GENRE
Book one in Crystal Lake Publishing's The Dream Weaver series, Where Nightmares Come From focuses on the art of storytelling in the Horror genre, taking an idea from conception to reality--whether you prefer short stories, novels, films, or comics.
Featuring in-depth articles and interviews by Joe R. Lansdale (Hap & Leonard series), Clive Barker (Books of Blood), John Connolly...
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Nightbreed volume 1
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English
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Explore horror master Clive Barker's '90s cult-classic Nightbreed series like never before in this comprehensive hardcover archive collection. Features the adaptation of Clive Barker's original screenplay; year 1 of the original '90s Nightbreed Epic comic run; and the Hellraiser/Nightbreed crossover, all remastered and collected for the first time. First appearing in the cult classic 1990 film, the Nightbreed is a tribe of monsters and outcasts who...
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Horror master Clive Barker is a New York Times best-selling author. This is the amazing second installment in his critically acclaimed Abarat fantasy series. Ever since the Lord of Midnight dispatched his emissaries to retrieve her, Candy Quackenbush's life has grown stranger and stranger by the minute. But why does he want with her? Find out in this spellbinding tale of magic, mystery, and mischief.
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Nightbreed volume 6
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Boone must learn what it means to be a god of man and a god of beast. In Annastajia's search for beauty, a monster will be born from her imperfections. Lude, the demon of a god long past, will live a lifetime of jest in the face of an eternity of chaos. All creatures of the night must learn that life is a fickle thing. Midian calls to us all.
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Nightbreed volume 11
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Rebuilding Midian has been no easy feat for Cabal and his people. But as the world of Nightbreed grows, the world will have to either embrace the dark or snuff the very existence of the Breed once and for all.
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Nightbreed volume 4
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"A monster lies in wait in me." The faith that once kept the demon inside at bay is abandoned. Ashberry's quest for the end times will break the beast out in full form. In another time and another nightmare, Chocolat must rip her children free from the clutches of the Vatican. Though her children are made by monster, they were born by egg in the nest of priest's clothing. A holy war for the ownership of her children must be waged.
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Nightbreed volume 2
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The Nightbreed have always been with us. As Peloquin makes meat of slave owners, he will soon discover his true hatred for naturals. The only ones to trust are those made of the night. In another time, a world away, Shuna Sassi only knows a life of fear. With the death of an important senator, she is cast out from the world of prostitution and forced into the sewers. The voice of the man she has killed haunts her very soul, but will it tempt her to...
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Nightbreed volume 3
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Without a home to call their own, the Nightbreed must escape the world of the living and find a life away from humanity. As Peloquin makes meat of the naturals in the south, Shuna Sassi must discover what it means to truly be haunted. Without Midian, the night is made for monsters.
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Nightbreed volume 7
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The lives of the Nightbreed will always spiral down to the catacombs of Midian. Boone must confront his inner demons and relive the life that brought him to this place of darkness. Through the story of Otis and Clay's self-betrayal he may just find the solace he needs to become Cabal.
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Nightbreed volume 5
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A new story arc begins in the 1920s where Annastajia, a once prominent beauty of the silent film era, must fight after a botched skin graft comes to life and grows its own body out of her features. On the other side of time, Lude, the offspring of a satyr, will find that the worst tragedies are riddled in the humor of being alive. Through the histories of his people, Boone must discover what it means to live with the night.
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Nightbreed volume 1
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What's to Love: Before Fables, before Once Upon a Time, Clive Barker created a secret city of monsters that live among us. Don't worry if you've never seen the film: Clive Barker and writer Marc Andreyko (Batwoman, Manhunter), along with Piotr Kowalski's gorgeous art (Dark Tower, Sex), have crafted a story for horror fans new and old.What It Is: With Clive Barker's vision for Nightbreed finally released-Nightbreed: The Director's Cut-this series...
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Nightbreed volume 1
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WHY BOOM! LOVES IT: Comics are full of outcast characters, but this is an outcast story, Clive Barker-style. True to this modern horror master's other work, NIGHTBREED is full of horrifying creatures that captivated us in the 1990 film and live on in this new story. Plus, writer Marc Andreyko is a HUGE fan of NIGHTBREED!
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: Before FABLES, before ONCE UPON A TIME, Clive Barker created a secret town of monsters that live among us....