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Skulduggery Pleasant · Book 19

Hell Breaks Loose

by Derek Landy
Published
5 April 2023
Pages
307
ISBN-13
9780008586027
Type
novel
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Cover of Hell Breaks Loose

About this book

Hell Breaks Loose (April 2023), 307 pages, is one of the series' standalone spinoffs, slotting into the timeline right after Phase II closes with Until the End -- an optional side-story rather than essential reading for the main plot.

Key facts about Hell Breaks Loose

Derek Landy wrote Hell Breaks Loose, a novel on our list. It has been out since 5 April 2023. The book has 307 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780008586027 to find the main one.

Hell Breaks Loose is book 19 of 25 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. The series has 25 published books. However, the series starts with Skulduggery Pleasant (2007). A Soul Full of Shadows is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 26 March 2026.

Additionally, Derek Landy writes Demon Road as a separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and horror shelves. Meanwhile, A Soul Full of Shadows is the latest published Derek Landy book on file, from 26 March 2026.

About Derek Landy

Derek Landy is an Irish author and screenwriter, born in 1974 in Lusk, County Dublin, who worked on his family's vegetable farm and studied animation before breaking into film: he wrote the IFTA-winning Dead Bodies and the IFTA-nominated Boy Eats Girl, starring Samantha Mumba. See every Derek Landy book in order.

Its place in Skulduggery Pleasant

Hell Breaks Loose is book 19 in the Skulduggery Pleasant series. It follows Until the End. It is followed by Bad Magic: A Skulduggery Pleasant Graphic Novel. 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…

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