Bedlam

Bedlam
Derek Landy

The 12th explosive novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, BEDLAM will blow your mind – and change everything… On a desperate journey to recover her sister's lost soul, Valkyrie Cain goes up against the High Sanctuary itself, and there's nothing Skulduggery Pleasant can do to stop her.  With Abyssinia's grand plan about to kick off in a night of magic, terror, and bloodshed, it falls to Omen Darkly to save the lives of thousands of innocent people.   And as the madness unfolds around him, as hidden enemies step into the light, and as Valkyrie is sucked into a desperate, lawless quest of her own, he has no choice but to become the hero he never really wanted to be — or die in the attempt.

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2019

Published in this ebook edition in 2019

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Source ISBN: 9780008293666

Ebook Edition © May 2019 ISBN: 9780008295660

Version: 2019-04-25

This book is dedicated to Laura J.

Because apparently having a book dedicated to you doesn’t count unless it’s a Skulduggery book. Hey, I get it. I do. But does that mean I can never stop writing these? Because that’s going to be pretty difficult, seeing as how everyone dies at the end of this one.

Aw, mannn … now look what you’ve made me do. I’ve ruined the ending for all the nice people.

Don’t worry, everyone, this book has a happy ending! Super-happy, with rainbows!

(Do you think they bought it? Yeah, me, too. Phew. That was a close one.)

(It’s a good thing you’re cute, it really is …)

And from the everything came the universe, which grew and spread and took its place beside the others.

And life grew, and spread.

Contents

Cover (#u0d3e2355-1596-5a39-8469-80b8921bf5d4)

Title Page (#ub9c944e4-f572-5c75-931c-4451c14f1af0)

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Dedication (#ue4b04729-22c4-535b-9961-3fc83bf7e3be)

Epigraph (#u8a94638c-3230-57f6-928c-98a3a60c4cfb)

Chapter 1 (#u48df17a2-c580-5f02-ada8-3115476e6f28)

Chapter 2 (#u90760d6e-1faf-5501-8528-a4acc330d779)

Chapter 3 (#u6c540681-6d88-590f-ab48-3c7e2a07d984)

Chapter 4 (#u7454ffea-a17a-57c0-a1c6-257d41a79343)

Chapter 5 (#ua79f5b08-e29d-5cc8-8ebe-f7315e144995)

Chapter 6 (#u31d9045d-4115-5776-ac63-43ffc08e62f0)

Chapter 7 (#ub72d7634-e5c3-5068-998d-fbee473f6d43)

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Chapter 9 (#ud1607a75-81d8-5603-b327-99ead4452fe1)

Chapter 10 (#u1ed3f04f-a28d-515b-8831-399db8061df3)

Chapter 11 (#ua16cd0af-5bda-5deb-b26d-b54077db2191)

Chapter 12 (#ueec9a2c6-1578-5654-840c-f856a0453115)

Chapter 13 (#u8b3761d3-768c-5509-a5e5-d279f0c5fe0d)

Chapter 14 (#u9d29e99b-595d-5172-97dc-1865b48f8e71)

Chapter 15 (#u21fec018-91d6-5b56-9643-acb34ff1b912)