The Dying of the Light
core novel 2014 Skulduggery Pleasant
Record
| First published | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.58 (13,623 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 605 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780007489251 |
| Internal chronology | 9 |
Synopsis
The Dying of the Light, Derek Landy's ninth book, concluding the original story arc, picks up directly from the events of Last Stand of Dead Men. Skulduggery Pleasant, without Valkyrie Cain by his side, is forced to work alongside her Reflection, an independent copy of Valkyrie usually kept dormant and generally regarded as unstable, as they try to track down and stop Darquesse before she can bring about global destruction. The story is set five years before its sequel Resurrection, and follows Skulduggery adjusting to this unfamiliar partnership while the threat posed by Darquesse continues to loom over the world. The confrontation surrounding Valkyrie Cain's fate remains the central thread as Skulduggery and the Reflection race to locate Darquesse before it is too late.
Where it sits
- Universe: Skulduggery Pleasant
- Series: The Skulduggery Pleasant main sequence core; position 9 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 9 of 18: previous Last Stand of Dead Men (2013) · next Resurrection (2017)
Sources
- FantasticFiction: Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skulduggery_Pleasant:_The_Dying_of_the_Light
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