Skullduggery Pleasant Books in Order

When twelve year old Stephanie Edgley inherits her uncle's fortune and eerie old house, she soon gains something stranger: a walking, talking skeleton detective. Drawn into a hidden magical Ireland, she and Skulduggery race to stop the sorcerer Serpine from unleashing an ancient weapon and the Faceless Ones.

A year after meeting Skulduggery, Valkyrie is helping hunt criminals when Baron Vengeous escapes prison with the razor wielding Billy Ray Sanguine. Armed with Lord Vile's armour and the stitched together Grotesquery, the Baron plans to summon the Faceless Ones back into the world.

The fanatical cult known as the Diablerie is close to opening a portal for the Faceless Ones using the Grotesquery's remains and the last teleporter. Skulduggery and Valkyrie chase them across Dublin and beyond, risking everything to stop a god level invasion.

After a year of searching, Valkyrie recovers Skulduggery's stolen skull and drags him back from the realm of the Faceless Ones. While a vengeful group of villains forms the Revengers' Club and plots mass murder, she learns necromancy and glimpses the True Name that could end the world.

Remnant spirits escape their prison and begin possessing sorcerers, turning friends and foes into rampaging killers. Desperate to avoid the prophecy that she will become Darquesse, Valkyrie submits to the unsettling Dr Nye, even as the last loose Remnant chooses Tanith Low as its new home.

The necromancers believe Valkyrie is destined to become the Death Bringer, a messiah who will transform life and death. When rival disciple Melancholia St Clair is unleashed and a plan emerges to sacrifice half the world, Valkyrie must face both her fate and Skulduggery's past as Lord Vile.

Across Ireland, ordinary people suddenly manifest wild magical powers and start tearing the world apart, all linked to an imprisoned sorcerer called Argeddion. As Valkyrie and Skulduggery chase dimensional killers and power drunk teens, they are drawn into a warped parallel realm ruled by Mevolent.

Written for World Book Day, this novella follows runaway teen Ryan after a strange burn mark appears on his hand and a gang tries to abduct him. Skulduggery and Valkyrie drag him into a race to stop a Doomsday Machine and force him to question who he really is.

Magical politics collapse into open war when the Sanctuaries turn on one another and a device called the Accelerator threatens the entire human race. Skulduggery reforms the Dead Men as Valkyrie faces conspiracies, family fallout and the terrifying future hinted by Darquesse.

This spin off gives Tanith Low, possessed and delighted by it, her own starring role as leader of a villain crew. She gathers killers and monsters to steal the four God Killer weapons before anyone can use them on Darquesse, all while planning a few betrayals of her own.

This collection gathers Skulduggery Pleasant short stories and novellas, plus new material, charting adventures from the Dead Men on the frontier to Valkyrie facing down vampires. It fills in hidden corners of the timeline for readers who want more chaos between the main novels.

The first Skulduggery Pleasant saga reaches its breaking point as Valkyrie's dark alter ego Darquesse moves closer to wiping out the world. Skulduggery and a battered cast of allies attempt one last, impossible gambit to save both Valkyrie and everything she loves.

Five years after the first saga ends, Valkyrie is back in Ireland, traumatised and trying to stay away from magic. When agent Temper Fray vanishes while spying on a group who want war with mortals, Skulduggery pulls her and schoolboy Omen Darkly into a new conspiracy.

When sadistic killer Cadaverous Gant kidnaps Valkyrie's little sister, he gives her until midnight to complete a chain of twisted tasks. Skulduggery and Omen race to catch up as Valkyrie fights cannibals, cursed magic and a lethal hotel built to break her.

Valkyrie defies the High Sanctuary to hunt down her sister's stolen soul, throwing herself into a lawless quest that tears at old loyalties. While Abyssinia prepares a night of horror and bloodshed, Omen Darkly is pushed into becoming the hero he never wanted to be.

War is looming and Skulduggery, Valkyrie and the last of the Dead Men are sent on a secret mission into a forsaken, terrifying land of magic. Surrounded by monsters and old enemies, Valkyrie must fight not just to survive but to master her own self destructive impulses.

This World Book Day novella sends Skulduggery and Valkyrie undercover in a Dublin school after three imprisoned gods break loose. Disguised as teacher and pupil, they must act perfectly normal while quietly preventing the end of the world.

Billions of lives will be lost if the Child of the Faceless Ones is found and used to bring the gods back. To stop that future, Skulduggery and Valkyrie consider assassinating fanatic Damocles Creed as Roarhaven tips toward protest, riots and open rebellion.

Part companion and part story, this lavish grimoire recaps the Skulduggery Pleasant saga, profiles the huge cast and maps the magic. It also hides new scenes and a dark thread of narrative, making it a treasure chest for long time fans.

In the climax of the second Skulduggery Pleasant cycle, the Faceless Ones are back and the bad guys finally seem to have the upper hand. With Valkyrie sidelined, Skulduggery and reluctant hero Omen Darkly face a last desperate fight to stop the apocalypse.