N O V E L S T H E     G A T E S (UK) Now Available! THE GATES OF HELL ARE ABOUT TO OPEN. MIND THE GAP. 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 hole in the universe, a hole through which can be glimpsed a pair of enormous gates. (Irish, Children's Edition) The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out... Read chapter one. Read Reviews. Support an independent bookstore, or buy online from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Published in the US & Canada by Atria Books, October 2009. Published in the UK, Ireland, Australia, etc. by Hodder & Stoughton, October 2009.