Lockwood & Co #1: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud (author)

Ghostly terror in a city of spectres. It’s hip to be scared. Forget Ghostbusters, folks. When a plague of spirits haunts London and the dead attack the living, who you gonna call? Lockwood & Co. (Tiny and ramshackle, but they know their stuff.) These ghost-bursting agents are basically the supernatural Rentokil. First-line defence against the ghostly epidemic that’s terrorized Britain for the past fifty years…

• First in a chilling series about a ghostbusting agency

• By the bestselling author of The Bartimaeus Sequence

• Set in a timeless world at once Victorian and modern

• ‘Exceptional… Inventive and funny’ – Sunday Telegraph

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