Skulduggery Pleasant · Book 19
Hell Breaks Loose
- Published
- 5 April 2023
- Pages
- 307
- ISBN-13
- 9780008586027
- Type
- novel

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.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008586027