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The Screaming Staircase

Stroud, Jonathan. Book - 2013 Y Fiction / Stroud, Jonathan, Kids Book / Fiction / Spooky / Stroud, Jonathan 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.

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Chilling alternative London submitted by LibraryMaven on July 6, 2014, 11:34am In a world suddenly taken over by ghosts that only some Talented children can see, many Psychic Detection Agencies (essentially, who you gonna call ...Ghost Busters agencies) spring up to help with the problem. Most of these agencies are run by adults that use child operatives but the Lockwood agency is run by three children. Suddenly they get an offer they can't refuse to solve a haunting...but it turns out to involve far more than they anticipated.

The Screaming Staircase was a wonderful mashup of horror and mystery with a little humor thrown in- I enjoyed it thoroughly and can't wait to see more of the series!

Good Book submitted by Satvika on August 4, 2019, 6:00pm Not amazing, but it's a good book.

The Screaming Staircase submitted by delaflynn on August 14, 2021, 5:34pm Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co series is excellent! The Screaming Staircase is a great introduction to the team. Cleverly written and extremely entertaining.

good book submitted by JessicaIJ on June 9, 2023, 1:31pm usually not a fan of slow moving books but i enjoyed this book because even while the climax was slow to get started interesting things were still happening

Fun read submitted by Emily Jennings on June 19, 2023, 10:13pm I watched the Netflix series first and then sought out the books. The show follows the plot of this first book fairly closely and I enjoyed both!

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Lockwood & Co.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Disney-Hyperion Books, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 390 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781423164913
9781423186922

SUBJECTS
Ghosts -- Fiction.
Supernatural -- Fiction.
Haunted houses -- Fiction.
Psychic ability -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.