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[[File:Sabriel.jpg|frame|[[Improbable Weapon User|Bells have never]] [[Musical Assassin|looked so awesome.]]]]
{{quote|''"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"''
|'''The Book of the Dead'''}}
{{quote|''"Your work?" asked the man, shivering a little, though it was no longer cold.''
''"Yes," said Abhorsen. "I am a necromancer, but not of the common kind. Where others of the art raise the Dead, I lay them back to rest. And those that will not rest, I bind. Or try to. I am Abhorsen."''
|'''Terciel,''' ''from the first chapter of '''Sabriel.'''''}}
A young adult fantasy series by [[Garth Nix]] consisting of three volumes -- ''Sabriel'', ''Lirael'' and ''Abhorsen''—plus at least one novelette, "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case" (appears in ''Across The Wall'', a collection of short fiction), a sequel of sorts to the trilogy. A prequel -- ''Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen''—and a sequel are set for 2013.
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* [[Go Mad from the Revelation]]: The Book of the Dead has a mechanism built in to prevent readers from remembering some of the less pleasant parts unless they need them, since otherwise they risk this.
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: The Book of the Dead.
* [[Great Wall]]: The wall separating Ancelstierre from the Old Kingdom. While it's actually a magical artifact designed to keep all manner of undead and magical nasties inside the Old Kingdom where they can be dealt with, it's not 100% effective, so the Ancelstierre side is reinforced with bunkers and trenches and permanent military installations.
* [[Happily Married]]: Eighteen years after their escapades in the first book, which caused many a Squee, {{spoiler|Sabriel and Touchstone}} are shown to be very satisfied together, while not verging into [[Sickeningly Sweethearts|mushy territory.]]
* [[Hellish Horse]]: Hedge has one. It is [[Incendiary Exponent|on fire]].
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