The Gates (The Samuel Johnson Series)
John Connolly
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 144242933X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween, which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe, a gap through which a pair of enormous gates is visible. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out.... Can one small boy defeat evil? Can he harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know it?
Bursting with imagination and impossible to put down, The Gates is about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy and the courage of a boy who is barely old enough to trick or treat on his own. This novel makes anything seem possible.
breakfast. I have a lot to do today. If you want to, you can help me with the shopping later. Otherwise you can just stay here, but no television and no video games. I want you to read a book, or do something useful with your time. It’s all those cartoons and monster-killing games that have given you these ideas. Honestly, dear, you live in a world of your own sometimes.” And then she did something completely unexpected. Having spent the last five minutes complaining about him, and not believing
always liked the sound of that word, which fit in with his theories of the universe. Anyway, since they still didn’t know for certain what it was, he could call it anything he liked. “So you’ve found out what it is?” “No, not exactly.” “Do you know if it’s ongoing?” “We’re not sure.” “Have you even found out if that’s actually what opened?” “Oh, we know it opened,” said Professor Hilbert. “That part’s easy.” “So you’ve proved that it exists.” Professor Stefan liked things to be proved
to Arrive, and Nurd Discovers the Joys of Motoring NURD FELT HIS FINGERTIPS begin to tingle again, but this time he was ready. He was wearing an assortment of rusty armor, some of the few possessions he had been permitted to retain in exile, to protect himself from any unseen eventualities. As he was about to be torn out of one world and hurled into another, this meant just about every possible eventuality was unseen. Only his head remained uncovered because the helmet no longer fit correctly.
women ascended into the night sky, off to seek easier prey. “Great,” said Constable Wayne. “The sarge will never believe us now . . .” • • • Sergeant Rowan had just hit the lights, and Constable Peel was about to put his foot on the accelerator, when Nurd tapped on the sheet of toughened plastic that partially separated him from the men in the front seats. He had heard the exchange over the radio, and he had also noticed some things that the policemen had not. The first were the little
intelligent. It’s harder to quote trigonometry, or quadratic equations, and not half as romantic. 18. Adults say lots of things that they don’t quite mean, usually just to be polite, which is no bad thing. They also say things that are exactly the opposite of what they appear to mean, such as: 1. “To be perfectly honest . . . ,” which means, “I am lying through my teeth.” 2. “I hear what you’re saying . . . ,” which means, “I hear it, but I’m not really listening, and I don’t agree with