Samuel Johnson · Book 1
The Gates
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN-13
- 9780340995792
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Gates opens John Connolly's comic-horror trilogy in 2009, introducing schoolboy Samuel Johnson, his dachshund Boswell, and the accidental tear between our world and Hell that his neighbor's basement experiments set off.
Its place in Samuel Johnson
The Gates is book 1 in the Samuel Johnson series. It is followed by The Infernals. See the full Samuel Johnson reading order.
Samuel Johnson is an ordinary boy in an ordinary English town who accidentally helps tear a hole between our world and Hell while investigating his neighbor's suspicious basement activities, setting off a comic-horror trilogy that runs in a very different register from Connolly's Charlie Parker novels. Working with his dachshund Boswell and a succession of thoroughly incompetent demons -- Nurd, the Scourge of Five Deities, chief among them -- Samuel has to stop a genuine demonic invasion using little more than…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780340995792