{"title": "Cabal", "covers": [3658, 2156339, 11273015], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than \"I'll never leave you.\""}, "first_publish_date": "December 1988", "key": "/works/OL257788W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2621804A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than \"I'll never leave you.\""}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Horror tales", "Short stories", "English Horror tales", "Fiction, horror", "Fiction"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Cabal is a 1988 horror novella by the British author Clive Barker. It was originally published in the United States as part of a collection comprising a novel and several short stories from Barker's sixth and final volume of the Books of Blood.\r\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal_(novella)"}, "subject_places": ["Outlaws", "Canada"], "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-24T00:36:36.861649"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-20T05:00:32.590556"}}