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Armageddon Outta Here – The World of Skulduggery Pleasant

By Derek Landy
Series: Skulduggery Pleasant
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The ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans, now updated to include Apocalypse Kings and six more new stories for this edition – 22 stories in all! ENTER A WORLD OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY Enter a world where Apocalypse Kings and ancient monsters stalk beside the... Read More
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The ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans, now updated to include Apocalypse Kings AND six more new stories for this edition – 22 stories in all!

Fully revised edition with seven new stories from the bestselling author

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The ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans, now updated to include Apocalypse Kings and six more new stories for this edition – 22 stories in all!

ENTER A WORLD OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY

Enter a world where Apocalypse Kings and ancient monsters stalk beside the killers, the misfits, the oddballs, and the weirdos.

Enter the world of Skulduggery Pleasant.

This definitive story collection has been updated with seven new twisted tales of darkness and light, of heroes and villains, and everything in-between. It will drag you, screaming, further than you have ever dared venture.

YOU ARE NOT READY

Series: Skulduggery Pleasant

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    Third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the bestselling series that puts the “funny” back in… um… funny bestselling series. That didn’t really work, did it? If you've read the previous Skulduggery books, then you know what the Faceless Ones are. And if you know what the Faceless Ones are, then you can probably take a wild guess that things in this...
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  • Playing With Fire
    Just when you think you’ve saved the world… "You will kill her?" the Torment asked. Skulduggery sagged. "Yes." He hesitated, then took his gun from his jacket. "I'm sorry, Valkyrie," he said softly. "Don't talk to me," Valkyrie said. "Just do what you have to do." "Please forgive me," Skulduggery said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled...
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    Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course). Oh yeah. And dead. Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's… well, she's a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out… “So you won't keep anything from me again?”...
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  • A Heart Full of Hatred
    A Heart Full of Hatred by Derek Landy is a gripping new tale that transports readers into a world on the brink of chaos. In this enthralling narrative, secrets unravel, alliances form and fall apart, and battles rage both within and outside the characters’ minds. The story explores the intricate nature of hatred, examining how it can destroy lives and...
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  • Armageddon Outta Here – The World of Skulduggery Pleasant
    The ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans, now updated to include Apocalypse Kings and six more new stories for this edition – 22 stories in all! ENTER A WORLD OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY Enter a world where Apocalypse Kings and ancient monsters stalk beside the killers, the misfits, the oddballs, and the weirdos. Enter the world of Skulduggery Pleasant....
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  • Dead or Alive
    Skulduggery, Valkyrie and Omen return in the 14th and penultimate novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series – and their most epic test yet… In a matter of days, the world will change. Billions of lives will be wiped away in a final, desperate search for the Child of the Faceless Ones — she who is destined to bring...
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  • The Maleficent Seven (From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant)
    A brilliant, hilarious one-off novel in the Skulduggery Pleasant universe, from number-one-bestselling author Derek Landy – now in paperback. This time, the bad guys take the stage. Tanith Low, now possessed by a remnant, recruits a gang of villains – many of whom will be familiar from previous Skulduggery adventures – in order to track down and steal the four...
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  • Seasons of War
    The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, Seasons of War, will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before… War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here...
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  • Until the End
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  • Bad Magic
    Experience Skulduggery Pleasant as never before – in this fully original graphic novel brought vibrantly to life in full colour. ‘A real cracker. Fun, thrilling, smartly scripted and powerfully making a stand for diversity and inclusion in the face of intimidation and ignorance. Even if this is your first encounter with the worlds of Skulduggery Pleasant, it’s one you will...
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  • Hell Breaks Loose
    Discover the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in this prequel to the bestselling series. So many enemies, so little time... Italy, 1703. As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a walled 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...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008585778

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 June 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HarperCollins

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 40.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 528

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Derek Landy Series: Skulduggery Pleasant Young Adult

About the Author

Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead." www.skulduggerypleasant.com

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  • The Faceless Ones
    Third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the bestselling series that puts the “funny” back in… um… funny bestselling series. That didn’t really work, did it? If you've read the previous Skulduggery books, then you know what the Faceless Ones are. And if you know what the Faceless Ones are, then you can probably take a wild guess that things in this...
    By Derek Landy
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    $1700
    Elsewhere:
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  • Playing With Fire
    Just when you think you’ve saved the world… "You will kill her?" the Torment asked. Skulduggery sagged. "Yes." He hesitated, then took his gun from his jacket. "I'm sorry, Valkyrie," he said softly. "Don't talk to me," Valkyrie said. "Just do what you have to do." "Please forgive me," Skulduggery said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled...
    By Derek Landy
    Paperback
    $1700
    Elsewhere:
    $1999
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    Ships in 4-6 weeks
  • Skulduggery Pleasant
    Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course). Oh yeah. And dead. Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's… well, she's a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out… “So you won't keep anything from me again?”...
    By Derek Landy
    Paperback
    $1700
    Elsewhere:
    $1999
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    Ships in 4-6 weeks
  • A Heart Full of Hatred
    A Heart Full of Hatred by Derek Landy is a gripping new tale that transports readers into a world on the brink of chaos. In this enthralling narrative, secrets unravel, alliances form and fall apart, and battles rage both within and outside the characters’ minds. The story explores the intricate nature of hatred, examining how it can destroy lives and...
    By Derek Landy
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    $1800
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  • Last Stand of Dead Men
    The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe – and the follow-up to the number-one bestseller, Kingdom of the Wicked… War has finally come. But it's not a war between good and evil, or light and dark – it's a war between Sanctuaries. For too long, the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink...
    By Derek Landy
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    $1999
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    By Derek Landy
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    $1999
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    By Derek Landy
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    $1999
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    $1999
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