Last Stand of Dead Men
core novel 2013 Skulduggery Pleasant
Record
| First published | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.56 (16,083 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780007489206 |
| Internal chronology | 8 |
Synopsis
Last Stand of Dead Men, Derek Landy's eighth book, opens with Valkyrie Cain learning that a dark warlock named Charivari is recruiting witches ahead of an approaching war between rival Sanctuaries, while a mysterious figure with golden eyes surfaces as a further threat, apparently able to erase himself from other people's memories. Skulduggery Pleasant reforms his old group the Dead Men to meet the danger, and Valkyrie works alongside her independent Reflection, Stephanie, and her ex-boyfriend Fletcher Renn. At the center of the unfolding crisis is the Accelerator, an unstable magical device that, left unchecked, threatens an explosion of magic capable of ending humanity, and Valkyrie and her allies move to shut it down. All the while, Valkyrie's alter-ego Darquesse continues to pull at her, as hidden forces within the Sanctuary itself work against her and her allies.
Where it sits
- Universe: Skulduggery Pleasant
- Series: The Skulduggery Pleasant main sequence core; position 8 of 18 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Derek Landy
Notes
- From the series record (The Skulduggery Pleasant main sequence): The main numbered sequence concluded with A Soul Full of Shadows (2026); several companion novellas and short-story collections in the same setting exist but are not catalogued in this admission.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Skulduggery Pleasant main sequence: position 8 of 18: previous Kingdom of the Wicked (2012) · next The Dying of the Light (2014)
Sources
- FantasticFiction: Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skulduggery_Pleasant:_Last_Stand_of_Dead_Men
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