Kingdom of the Wicked

Author: Derek Landy
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780007480227
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 606

Book Description
Magic is a disease. Across the land, normal people are developing wild and unstable powers. Somehow infected by a rare strain of magic, they are dangerous and terrified. Th eir only hope lies with the Sanctuary, which is having problems of its own. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are needed not only to fi nd out what is causing the infection, but also to prevent the take-over of the Sanctuary by a consortium of international sorcerers. And then there's the small matter of Kitana. A normal teenage girl who, along with her normal teenage friends, becomes infected. Wielding the magic of gods, they're set to tear the city apart unless someone stands up against them. Looks like it's going to be another one of those days...

Skulduggery Pleasant – Apocalypse Kings

Author: Derek Landy
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008463921
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77

Book Description
A brand new Skulduggery Pleasant novella for World Book Day: a hilarious and thrilling standalone story in the internationally bestselling series – perfect for new readers, and essential for Skulduggery fans...

Midnight (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 11)

Author: Derek Landy
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008284596
Category : Cain, Valkyrie (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 426

Book Description
Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off - and runs.

Dark Days

Author: Derek Landy
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007325940
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11

Book Description
Skulduggery is gone. All our hopes rest with Valkyrie. The world's weight is on her shoulders, and its fate is in her hands.

Skulduggery Pleasant (10) – Resurrection

Author: Derek Landy
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008266476
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399

Book Description
The skeleton detective is coming back to life... again! It’s the tenth, triumphant novel in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, and it will rearrange your world.

Playing with Fire

Author: Derek Landy
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007257058
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
An old foe of Skulduggery's is bent on bringing back to life the horrible Grotesquery, an unkillable monster assembled from the most fearsome beasts of legend. It's up to the ingenious, fearless, and hilarious Skulduggery and his apprentice Valkyrie Cain (a.k.a. Stephanie Edgely) to stop it.

Last Stand of Dead Men

Author: Derek Landy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007489213
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description
The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe - and the follow-up to 2012's number-one bestseller, Kingdom of the Wicked...

Death Bringer

Author: Derek Landy
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008667412
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that's a Good Thing. But there's a catch--they've found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. And that's a very, very Bad Thing.

Doctor Who: The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage

Author: Derek Landy
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405913312
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord. When the TARDIS lands on a planet that looks identical to Earth, the Tenth Doctor and Martha are amazed to find it packed with fictional characters from her childhood. But who has the power to create an entire world out of books and why? The Doctor and Martha must solve the mystery before their story ends! Author Derek Landy puts his own unique spin on the Doctor's amazing adventures through time and space.

New Directions in Children's Gothic

Author: Anna Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131744423X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
Children’s literature today is dominated by the gothic mode, and it is in children’s gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children’s Gothic now when traditional monsters have become the heroes, when new monsters have come into play, when globalisation brings Harry Potter into China and yaoguai into the children’s Gothic, and when childhood itself and children’s literature as a genre can no longer be thought of as an uncontested space apart from the debates and power struggles of an adult domain. We look in detail at series such as The Mortal Instruments, Twilight, Chaos Walking, The Power of Five, Skulduggery Pleasant, and Cirque du Freak; at novels about witches and novels about changelings; at the Gothic in China, Japan and Oceania; and at authors including Celia Rees, Frances Hardinge, Alan Garner and Laini Taylor amongst many others. At a time when the energies and anxieties of children’s novels can barely be contained anymore within the genre of children’s literature, spilling over into YA and adult literature, we need to pay attention. Weird things are happening and they matter.