The End of the World
Hey, punks! Skulduggery and Valkyrie are about to make your day...
15-year-old Ryan is running away from home, looking for escape and adventure. But unfortunately, sometimes people DO get what they wish for. Ryan hasn't gone far before he is set upon by a bunch of scary, nihilistic punk-sorcerers who need him to set off a doomsday device that will destroy the planet and everyone on it. Fun!
Riding to the rescue, however, is a certain skeleton detective and his teenage partner/combat accessory. Now Skulduggery and Valkyrie only have a few hours to figure out what's going on, while saving Ryan and – incidentally – the whole world. And all that time, the punk-sorcerors are closing in...
This novelette was written to celebrate World Book Day in the Year of Reading! The story takes place just after the events of 'Death Bringer,' so technically this is book number 6.5 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, though it bears no effect on the series as a whole.
About the Skulduggery Pleasant Series
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)
- +Armageddon Outta Here(2014)
- +Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon(2008)
- +Hell Breaks Loose(2023)
- +Tanith Low in the Maleficent Seven(2013)
- +The End of the World(2012)
- +The Lost Art of World Domination(2007)
Reading age: 10+ years
This series should be read in order.
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant:
Ace Detective
Snappy Dresser
Razor-tongued Wit
Crackerjack Sorcerer
and Walking, Talking,
Fire-throwing Skeleton.
He also happens to be the ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old girl.
These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil. The end of the world? Over his dead body.