Hell Breaks Loose
by Derek Landy (Author)
Travel back to 1703 with Skulduggery Pleasant in this standalone story featuring all your favorite characters. So many enemies, so little time . . .
'Derek Landy, a master juggler of scary and funny, has done it again with a twisty mini-masterpiece' The Times
Italy, 1703. As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a town in the Tuscan hills—not to assassinate the Lord of the Dark Sorcerers, but to save him. A rift has opened to a hellish dimension, and only Mevolent is strong enough to seal it and save the world.
A simple mission, then, which turns ever-so-slightly trickier when Skulduggery is presented with the opportunity to finally get revenge on Nefarian Serpine, the man who murdered him and killed his family thirteen years earlier.
Return to the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in a short novel set hundreds of years before Valkyrie Cain is even born, and follow Skulduggery, Ghastly, Shudder, Ravel, Saracen, Dexter and Hopeless as they argue, bicker and battle their way through an army of their most hated enemies in order to save their oldest enemy so they can stop another, brand new, enemy…
And that's when things get complicated.
'Derek Landy, a master juggler of scary and funny, has done it again with a twisty mini-masterpiece' The Times
Italy, 1703. As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a town in the Tuscan hills—not to assassinate the Lord of the Dark Sorcerers, but to save him. A rift has opened to a hellish dimension, and only Mevolent is strong enough to seal it and save the world.
A simple mission, then, which turns ever-so-slightly trickier when Skulduggery is presented with the opportunity to finally get revenge on Nefarian Serpine, the man who murdered him and killed his family thirteen years earlier.
Return to the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in a short novel set hundreds of years before Valkyrie Cain is even born, and follow Skulduggery, Ghastly, Shudder, Ravel, Saracen, Dexter and Hopeless as they argue, bicker and battle their way through an army of their most hated enemies in order to save their oldest enemy so they can stop another, brand new, enemy…
And that's when things get complicated.
Skulduggery Pleasant Series—Summary and Book Order
Series: Skulduggery PleasantReading level: 10+
Books in series: 24
Read in order? Yes
Website: skulduggerypleasant.com
Tags: fantasy mystery adventure crime magic
Print series book list
Books in series order
1. Skulduggery Pleasant (Scepter of the Ancients) (2007)2. Playing with Fire (2008)
3. The Faceless Ones (2009)
4. Dark Days (2010)
5. Mortal Coil (2010)
6. Death Bringer (2011)
7. Kingdom of the Wicked (2012)
8. Last Stand of Dead Men (2013)
9. The Dying of the Light (2014)
10. Resurrection (2017)
11. Midnight (2018)
12. Bedlam (2019)
13. Seasons of War (2020)
14. Dead or Alive (2021)
15. Until the End (2022)
16. A Mind Full of Murder (2024)
17. A Heart Full of Hatred (2025)
+ Apocalypse Kings (2021)
+ Hell Breaks Loose (2023)
+ Armageddon Outta Here (2014)
+ Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon (2008)
+ The Lost Art of World Domination (2007)
+ Tanith Low in the Maleficent Seven (2013)
+ The End of the World (2012)