
Book guide
The Screaming Staircase
London is haunted, and its smallest ghost-hunting agency has one night to survive the house that could destroy them.
Genre and trope pairingsHorrorHaunted houseHorrorGhostsHorrorSurvival horrorParanormalGhostsParanormalHaunted houseParanormalPsychic abilitiesParanormalSupernatural investigatorMysteryAmateur sleuth
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About The Screaming Staircase
For more than fifty years, Britain has suffered a terrifying ghost epidemic. Talented young agent Lucy Carlyle arrives in London and joins the ramshackle agency Lockwood & Co. After a disastrous case, the team’s last chance of redemption means spending the night in one of England’s most haunted houses.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Fast
Series
Lockwood & Co. · Book 1 of 5
Content warnings
- fatmisia
- body shaming
- child abuse
- domestic abuse
- suicide
- attempted suicide
- blood
- gore
- dead bodies
- physical injuries
- hospitalisation
- death of parent
- murder
- explosion
- fire
- drowning
- torture
- child death
- gun violence



