Samuel Johnson · Book 2

The Infernals

Published
1 January 2011
Pages
311
ISBN-13
9781451643084
Type
novel
Cover of The Infernals

About this book

The Infernals (2011), published in the UK as Hell's Bells, runs 311 pages and pushes into Hell's own internal politics and a botched invasion attempt -- the same novel under two different titles depending on the edition.

Key facts about The Infernals

The Infernals is a novel by John Connolly. Readers have had it since 2011. It runs to 311 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of The Infernals. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781451643084 to find the main one.

The Infernals is book 2 of 3 in the Samuel Johnson series. The series has 3 published books. However, the series starts with The Gates (2009).

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 Infernals is book 2 in the Samuel Johnson series. It follows The Gates. It is followed by The Creeps. 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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