Armageddon Outta Here - The World of Skulduggery Pleasant

Armageddon Outta Here - The World of Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy

The ULTIMATE story collection for Skulduggery Pleasant fans. Featuring two AMAZING novellas and fourteen GRIPPING short stories - including three new stories written exclusively for this edition.We all know that doors are for people with no imagination so smash the glass, climb through the window and enter the awesome world of Skulduggery Pleasant with this ultimate story collection.For the first time, every Skulduggery Pleasant short story, plus two novellas – Get Thee Behind me, Bubba Moon and The End of the World – is collected into one magnificent volume. But that's not all…This collection includes fourteen short stories – three of which are AWESOME NEW stories written exclusively for this edition. Two of them delve into the things that our old friend Billy-Ray Sanguine gets up to between books, while the third pits Skulduggery and Valkyrie against a serial killer, a desperate ghost, and a swarm of very nasty insects.So it’s business as usual, then.Introduced by Derek, these are the hidden stories of the skeleton who saves the world… and the girl who's destined to destroy it.

Discover what happens between the books …

This collection includes every Skulduggery Pleasant short story ever written, including two awesome novellas – Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon and The End of The World, written for World Book Day.

But that’s not all.

Written specially for this collection are three new short stories. Two of them delve into the things that fan-favourite, Billy-Ray Sanguine, gets up to between books, while the third pits Skulduggery and Valkyrie against a serial killer, a desperate ghost, and a swarm of very nasty insects.

So it’s business as usual, then.

Copyright

First published in hardback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2014

The edition published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2015

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Copyright © Derek Landy 2015*

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Cover illustration © Tom Percival;

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* The Lost Art of World Domination, first published in Skulduggery Pleasant, 2012 Down-under Tour Edition; Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon, first published in Playing with Fire, 2012 Down-under Tour Edition; The Slightly Ignominious End to the Legend of Black Annis, first published in The Faceless Ones, 2012 Down-under Tour Edition; Myosotis Terra, first published in Mortal Coil, 2012 Down-under Tour Edition; The Wonderful Adventures of Geoffrey Scrutinous, first published in Mortal Coil, 2012 Down-under Tour Edition; Just Another Friday Night, first published in The End of the World, 2012 Australian Edition; The End of the World, first published in 2012; Trick or Treat and The Button, first published on www.dereklandy.blogspot.com (http://www.dereklandy.blogspot.com); Across A Dark Plain, first published in Armageddon Outta Here, 2014; The Horror Writers’ Halloween Ball, first published in Armageddon Outta Here, 2014; Friday Night Fights, first published in Armageddon Outta Here, 2014; Get Thee Behind Me, Bubba Moon, first published in Armageddon Outta Here, 2014; Death in Texas, Theatre of Shadows and Crazy Little Thing, first published in Armageddon Outta Here, 2015.

Source ISBN: 9780007559527

Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007559558

Version: 2014-12-24

This book is dedicated to my brand new nephew, Cameron.

Cameron, I’m sure you’ll grow taller as you get older, but right now you’re simply way too short. You also can’t talk or stand up, and I have yet to see you read a book. None of this is entirely your own fault, however – I blame the parents – so I hope my words don’t upset you too much.

The problem is, you’re surrounded by a formidable sister and some formidable cousins, so you’re going to have to grow up to be an exceptional person. I’ll do what I can to help, but the rest is up to you.

Contents

COVER (#u0b68c99b-11f1-5c21-ae2b-00b632d8a071)

TITLE PAGE (#u58ea2a63-973e-5957-bb68-f44339347250)

COPYRIGHT (#u77098a63-2c8b-507f-9f96-c50e3b2a8712)

DEDICATION (#uac3fda0f-35f4-5792-8386-06c2ac14c2f4)

THE TIMELINE (#u06e40786-0cb1-5d0d-ace1-71db3306eab6)

INTRODUCTION (#u412d0c4a-2c32-5356-a756-86b5464019af)

ACROSS A DARK PLAIN (#u9972a4a3-e94a-5253-9e44-00e1d7038dea)

THE HORROR WRITERS’ HALLOWEEN BALL (#u42daa8fe-8ce6-51d0-bf65-f7b675f8507f)

THE LOST ART OF WORLD DOMINATION (#u4e19bce9-e47c-5b04-b0f7-87c51d110700)

GOLD, BABIES AND THE BROTHERS MULDOON (#ucc8d03f8-bf8c-5dae-bc4d-6e75a47a1b8e)

THE SLIGHTLY IGNOMINIOUS END TO THE LEGEND OF BLACK ANNIS (#ub5bf0413-9c3c-5c8f-81cb-e0e675b7328e)

FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS (#u11f6cdd3-cd91-5667-844e-7c2138e8d47a)

DEATH AND TEXAS (#litres_trial_promo)

MYOSOTIS TERRA (#litres_trial_promo)

THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF GEOFFREY SCRUTINOUS (#litres_trial_promo)

JUST ANOTHER FRIDAY NIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)

THE END OF THE WORLD (#litres_trial_promo)

TRICK OR TREAT (#litres_trial_promo)