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Skulduggery Pleasant: End Of The World.

End Of The World is an exclusive Skulduggery Pleasant book that was released on World Book siku 2012. Its not a proper book in the series but a short story of 111 pages and a note from Derek Landy.

The blurb reads:

Ryan is an ordinary boy living in an ordinary world.
Or so he thought.
Pursued kwa a gang of insane sorcerers who want to destroy the planet, Ryans only chance for survival rests with skeleton-detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his teenage partner Valkyrie Cain. They have one siku to save Ryan. One siku to save the world. And the clock is ticking......

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came, and went and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live kwa watchfires - and the thrones,
The palaces of crowned kings, the huts,
The habitations of all things which dwell,
Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed,
And men were gathered round...