![]() ![]() As the series progresses, they investigate and solve hauntings and find deeper truths behind the ghosts and the Problem.Ī sinister Problem has occurred in London: all nature of ghosts, haunts, and spectres are appearing throughout the city, and they are not exactly friendly. The agency is led by Anthony Lockwood and has one other member prior to Lucy's joining, George Cubbins. The story follows Lucy Carlyle and Lockwood & Co., the only supernatural agency in London run by children. The agencies are run by those who have passed the ghost-sensitive age, and the agents are the youth with the talents necessary to solve the hauntings, which puts them in danger in the process. ![]() ![]() However, only certain children and teenagers have the "talent" to sense the ghosts, which they gradually lose as they reach their twenties. Agencies have been created to fend off the ghosts and protect the public for a fee. The story is set in a version of modern-day London experiencing an event called "the Problem," ghosts which appear throughout the city at nighttime and attack the living. It is the first book in the series Lockwood & Co., and was released on 29 August 2013 by Random House in the United Kingdom, and by Disney-Hyperion in the United States on 17 September 2013. The Screaming Staircase is a young adult, supernatural thriller novel by Jonathan Stroud. ![]()
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