The first volume - called simply Abarat - was published in October 2002 and the second volume - Abarat : Days of Magic, Nights of War - followed in September 2004, with both volumes spreading across the world in foreign language editions. Abarat: Absolute Midnight was published in September 2011.

The paperback edition of Absolute Midnight was released in the UK on 11 October 2012

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Clive is still painting and the canvases for Books Four and Five are currently filling up his house.

The revised edition of Beneath the Surface includes new material from the latest volume of Clive Barker’s Abarat – Absolute Midnight. Featuring Clive’s work-in-progress illustrations for all three volumes, this full-colour edition also looks at Clive's writing and painting styles and features an extended, in-depth interview with Clive done by a classroom of young Abarat readers. This edition also now includes an updated glossary and hints of what is yet to come in the final books of Abarat...

Available on the iBookstore from 1 March 2012 at £5.99 / $8.99

Watch the Abarat Absolute Midnight trailer here now!

More detail on Books Four and Five of the Abarat series can be found by clicking on the image below.



Abarat has now been published in over 40 countries - click the globe to see how different it can look...