Samuel Johnson · Book 1

The Gates

by John Connolly

Published
1 January 2009
Pages
272
ISBN-13
9780340995792
Type
novel

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Cover of The Gates

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…

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