Skulduggery Pleasant · Book 24
A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe
- Published
- 23 October 2025
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN-13
- 9780008776671
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe (October 23, 2025, 240 pages, HarperCollins) is a standalone Skulduggery Pleasant spinoff -- the book version of the series' second podcast -- following three sorcerers who converged in 1962 to battle in a hidden chamber near a disused London Underground platform, with a prophecy that the victor would hold the fate of humanity in their hands, and nothing since -- until now. It sits between A Heart Full of Hatred (March 2025) and A Soul Full of Shadows (March 2026) in publication order.
Its place in Skulduggery Pleasant
A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe is book 24 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It follows A Heart Full of Hatred. It is followed by A Soul Full of Shadows. See the full Skulduggery Pleasant reading order.
Twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgley inherits a strange house from her recently deceased uncle and finds herself teamed up with its previous tenant's oldest friend: a wisecracking, magic-wielding, reanimated skeleton detective named Skulduggery Pleasant. Together they investigate a hidden magical Ireland full of sorcerers, monsters, and ancient evils, and Stephanie - who takes the name Valkyrie Cain - trains up from tag-along to genuine magical powerhouse across a saga that keeps escalating in scale and body count as…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008776671
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008788568
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008776688