Series
Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy · 19 novels · 3 novellas · 2 novelettes · 8 short stories · 2 collections · 2007–2026
Skulduggery Pleasant is a series of dark fantasy novels written by Irish author Derek Landy. Tom Percival is the series' illustrator. The books revolve around the adventures of fledgling detective Valkyrie Cain and her mentor Skulduggery Pleasant, along with other friends and allies. The central story concerns Valkyrie's struggle to stop evil forces threatening the world and her internal struggle to resist the darkness within.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(5 editions)
Map
Skulduggery Pleasant at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s3
- 2010s23
- 2020s8
Shape
19 novels · 3 novellas · 2 novelettes · 8 short stories · 2 collections
1 author
reads like:dark fantasycoming of ageour worldcontemporaryadventurousyoung adult
Mood
Bright and intense: 46% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book24 of 34 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Last Stand of Dead Mendarkest
- Skulduggery Pleasantbrightest
- Mortal Coilcalmest
- Midnightmost intense