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.
Key facts about The Gates
John Connolly wrote The Gates, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2009. The book has 272 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780340995792 to find the main one.
The Gates is book 1 of 3 in the Samuel Johnson series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, John Connolly writes Charlie Parker, The Book of Lost Things and Chronicles of the Invaders as separate series. Those series sit on our supernatural crime, fantasy and young adult shelves. Meanwhile, A River Red with Blood is the latest published John Connolly book on file, from 7 May 2026.
About John Connolly
John Connolly is an Irish novelist best known for the Charlie Parker series, which follows a former NYPD detective turned private investigator in Maine and blends hardboiled crime plotting with supernatural horror -- ghosts, ancient evils, and a recurring sense that Parker's cases are connected to something larger and darker than ordinary crime. See every John Connolly book in order.
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