# The Gates

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- Book: [The Gates](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-connolly/the-gates) ([The Gates.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-connolly/the-gates.md))
- Authors: [John Connolly](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-connolly)
- Publisher: hodder_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-14-4470-674-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-04-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out . . . Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it?