Christopher Carrion

Christopher Carrion
Artwork by Clive Barker
Titles	Lord of Midnight Midnight Prince The Nightmare Man
Species	Human
Age	Unknown
Gender	Male
Books	Abarat Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War Abarat: Absolute Midnight

Christopher Carrion is one of the main characters in the Abarat series, and functions as the primary antagonist of its first two installments Abarat and Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War.

Appearance and Character

Carrion is one of the main characters and antagonists in the Abarat series, first appearing in Abarat. He is the Lord of Midnight on the Island of Gorgossium where he is shown to take an interest in the adventures of the human girl Candy Quackenbush, who has inadvertently entered the world of the Islands of Abarat.

Carrion is soon revealed to have been raised by his grandmother, Mater Motley, after his mother and siblings were killed in a raging fire. Mater Motley raised Carrion strictly and brought him up to share her belief in the goal of Absolute Midnight, a state where all the islands of the Abarat would eternally be plunged into darkness. Loathing anything verging on sentiment, Mater Motley sewed up Christopher's mouth once when he uttered the word 'love'.

Enraged by her refusal of him, Carrion sent a dragon to kill the Princess on her wedding day to Finnegan Hob. Carrion was grief-strucken and intensely guilt after the death of Princess Boa, and fell even deeper into self-loathing.

Although various initial attempts failed, Carrion's efforts eventually paid off and Candy was brought to the island of Efreet where he confronted her.

In Abarat

Chirstopher Carrion makes his first appearence in Abarat during a meeting where Mendelson Shape tells him a girl from the Hereafter now has the Key. Though enraged at Shape, he is amused at the prospect of a meeting the girl. His lieutenant Otto Houlihan escorts a man from Commexo City to Gorgossium to review surveillance footage from all across the Abarat. After Shape searches through the images, they find Candy in the Yebba Dim Day. When seeing her image for the first time Carrion was drawn to Candy without realizing why, and orders Shape to capture her and bring her into his presence.In a later chapter it is revealed that Carrion was deeply in love with Princess Boa. Although she treated him with kindness and respect, Princess Boa did not love Carrion and rejected his offer of marriage. He was very scarred emotionally from the fallout and sees Candy as a possible new chance after Boa's death.

Abilities

Carrion uses nightmares found in his liquid collar to send nightmares to his prisoners. These nightmares are monsters that swim from inside Carrions brain into his collar made of flesh. They give off a eerie light. These nightmares instile fear inside Carrions enemies and his prisoners often do not survive. Many people know of these nightmares and fear them greatly for they make your greates nightmares come true. Carrion's collar later breakes in a fight with Mater Motley and his nightmares multiply rapidly in hopes of protecting their master.