--- product_id: 125614410 title: "Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase" price: "25.20 DT" currency: TND in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/125614410-lockwood-and-co-the-screaming-staircase store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase **Price:** 25.20 DT **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase - **How much does it cost?** 25.20 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/125614410-lockwood-and-co-the-screaming-staircase) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Dive into the first book of this frightfully fun series and join the ghost-hunting gang as they defend our world from the most fearsome phantoms! A sinister Problem has occurred in London: all nature of ghosts, haunts, spirits, and specters are appearing throughout the city, and they aren't exactly friendly. Only young people have the psychic abilities required to see and eradicate these supernatural foes. Many different Psychic Detection Agencies have cropped up to handle the dangerous work, and they are in fierce competition for business. In The Screaming Staircase , the plucky and talented Lucy Carlyle teams up with Anthony Lockwood, the charismatic leader of Lockwood & Co, a small agency that runs independent of any adult supervision. After an assignment leads to both a grisly discovery and a disastrous end, Lucy, Anthony, and their sarcastic colleague, George, are forced to take part in the perilous investigation of Combe Carey Hall, one of the most haunted houses in England. Will Lockwood & Co. survive the Hall's legendary Screaming Staircase and Red Room to see another day? Readers who enjoyed the action, suspense, and humor in Jonathan Stroud's internationally best-selling Bartimaeus books will be delighted to find the same ingredients, combined with deliciously creepy scares, in his thrilling and chilling Lockwood & Co. series. Review: Amazing all-ages (10 & up!) ghost story with scares & twists galore - There are times when you need to sit with a book for a while after finishing it to process your feelings and reactions. Maybe the reading experience was emotionally exhausting. Maybe the subject matter was disturbing (or nightmare-inducing!). Maybe... a lot of things. After I finished Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase, I struggled to evaluate my reaction. My roommate walked in and saw me sitting on the couch, book closed on my lap, staring into space. I told her, "It was a good book, but creepy as hell." She said, "Put that in the review." Great advice. Lucy is a girl with: an exceptional ability to listen to ghosts, bad mistakes in her past, and a tendency toward obsessive preparedness. She's also an agent at London-based Lockwood & Co., a small outfit whose job it is to banish spirits. To do her work Lucy abides by three rules: 1) Get in quick, 2) Don't use electricity, and 3) Wear a watch with a luminous dial. The other (unspoken) rule is that things never go quite as expected. Increased hauntings are plaguing Britain, and only the young can detect and eliminate them. Which is how/why three teenagers came to run a business of a sinister nature. In this first in a new paranormal series, Stroud introduces three young ghost hunters: the narrator Lucy, Anthony Lockwood and George. Lucy is new and trying to prove her competence. George is abrasive and fanatical about jelly doughnuts and research. Lockwood brings them together as a clever and charismatic leader. And Stroud unites their disparate talents and abilities to tell a dark and disturbing tale for middle grade readers. Oh, it's also funny, smart and can't-put-it-down-addictive reading. If you like mystery,danger, and stories that involve escaping by the skin of your teeth, this is the book for you. Did I love it? I had a hard time knowing for the first few days. It scared the freaking daylights out of me in parts, but I couldn't stop reading. I loved Lucy and George and Lockwood, and I will be counting down the days until the next book releases and I can find out what happens next. I thought the mystery was extremely well-executed, with twists you could see coming, and others you couldn't. In some ways, I was intrigued in spite of myself, because I say I don't like scary books. And yet. I couldn't stop thinking about The Screaming Staircase. I think this is what being in love with a complex book looks like, folks. Yes, I think it must be love. Because while the story offers all the thrills and chills expected of a good ghost story, it's also about three characters who have the odds stacked against them and still rely on their ingenuity (and luck!), and let their stubborn will and intuition guide them through. That sort of pluck will win me over any day. Let me be clear: The Screaming Staircase is close to perfect. It has a well-realized fantasy world with an insidious paranormal problem, engaging characters and real danger. The story has enough twists, surprises and scares for everyone. It's also great all-ages (10 and up?) reading - I'm giving a copy to my 23 year-old brother for the holiday. Yeah, that's a pretty whole-hearted recommendation. It IS love! Recommended for: readers ages ten and up (especially those who like mysteries), fans of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, and anyone who likes a good ghost story. Review: Quite a good, modern ghost story - A little cliche to be fair, and I greatly dislike how it was Americanized. However, the characters are fun and the story is well paced and described. There are nit-picks on things, of course, especially around all the ChekHov's Guns that keep appearing throughout. I do wish, as this was clearly written to have following stories, that more had been saved for future books. But no, every one had to be used, which made the ending quite telegraphed and anti climactic. The world building is what stands out as the best part of the book. The clear rules of the Problem, but with facts that challenge them, especially the way it links so many global ghost stories yet only applies to England is quite a good mystery. This and the characters really are what are getting me to pick up the later volumes. If I can find a British edition that doesn't use cookies, flashlights, and Fahrenheit. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #12,157 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #2 in Children's Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural Books #3 in Children's Paranormal Fantasy #3 in Children's Fantasy & Supernatural Mystery Books | ## Images ![Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81gpZvokPcL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing all-ages (10 & up!) ghost story with scares & twists galore *by C***A on December 27, 2013* There are times when you need to sit with a book for a while after finishing it to process your feelings and reactions. Maybe the reading experience was emotionally exhausting. Maybe the subject matter was disturbing (or nightmare-inducing!). Maybe... a lot of things. After I finished Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase, I struggled to evaluate my reaction. My roommate walked in and saw me sitting on the couch, book closed on my lap, staring into space. I told her, "It was a good book, but creepy as hell." She said, "Put that in the review." Great advice. Lucy is a girl with: an exceptional ability to listen to ghosts, bad mistakes in her past, and a tendency toward obsessive preparedness. She's also an agent at London-based Lockwood & Co., a small outfit whose job it is to banish spirits. To do her work Lucy abides by three rules: 1) Get in quick, 2) Don't use electricity, and 3) Wear a watch with a luminous dial. The other (unspoken) rule is that things never go quite as expected. Increased hauntings are plaguing Britain, and only the young can detect and eliminate them. Which is how/why three teenagers came to run a business of a sinister nature. In this first in a new paranormal series, Stroud introduces three young ghost hunters: the narrator Lucy, Anthony Lockwood and George. Lucy is new and trying to prove her competence. George is abrasive and fanatical about jelly doughnuts and research. Lockwood brings them together as a clever and charismatic leader. And Stroud unites their disparate talents and abilities to tell a dark and disturbing tale for middle grade readers. Oh, it's also funny, smart and can't-put-it-down-addictive reading. If you like mystery,danger, and stories that involve escaping by the skin of your teeth, this is the book for you. Did I love it? I had a hard time knowing for the first few days. It scared the freaking daylights out of me in parts, but I couldn't stop reading. I loved Lucy and George and Lockwood, and I will be counting down the days until the next book releases and I can find out what happens next. I thought the mystery was extremely well-executed, with twists you could see coming, and others you couldn't. In some ways, I was intrigued in spite of myself, because I say I don't like scary books. And yet. I couldn't stop thinking about The Screaming Staircase. I think this is what being in love with a complex book looks like, folks. Yes, I think it must be love. Because while the story offers all the thrills and chills expected of a good ghost story, it's also about three characters who have the odds stacked against them and still rely on their ingenuity (and luck!), and let their stubborn will and intuition guide them through. That sort of pluck will win me over any day. Let me be clear: The Screaming Staircase is close to perfect. It has a well-realized fantasy world with an insidious paranormal problem, engaging characters and real danger. The story has enough twists, surprises and scares for everyone. It's also great all-ages (10 and up?) reading - I'm giving a copy to my 23 year-old brother for the holiday. Yeah, that's a pretty whole-hearted recommendation. It IS love! Recommended for: readers ages ten and up (especially those who like mysteries), fans of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, and anyone who likes a good ghost story. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Quite a good, modern ghost story *by K***R on May 7, 2024* A little cliche to be fair, and I greatly dislike how it was Americanized. However, the characters are fun and the story is well paced and described. There are nit-picks on things, of course, especially around all the ChekHov's Guns that keep appearing throughout. I do wish, as this was clearly written to have following stories, that more had been saved for future books. But no, every one had to be used, which made the ending quite telegraphed and anti climactic. The world building is what stands out as the best part of the book. The clear rules of the Problem, but with facts that challenge them, especially the way it links so many global ghost stories yet only applies to England is quite a good mystery. This and the characters really are what are getting me to pick up the later volumes. If I can find a British edition that doesn't use cookies, flashlights, and Fahrenheit. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Yet Another of Stroud's Vision of London Slightly Askew *by C***S on October 9, 2013* One of my favourite children and young adult writers working today is Jonathan Stroud who gave life to what is possibly the funniest djinni ever birthed in fiction (sorry, Robin Williams). This is not the first time I have heaped love onto the Bartimaeus sequence of books and if you haven't read them - well, what are you waiting for? While the titular indentured djinni is certainly the most memorable element of the Bartimaeus books, what really sold the original trilogy is Stroud's vision of a dystopian London run by scheming magician-politicians who enslave spirits and tyrannises non-magic commoners. Bartimaeus' London is simultaneously familiar yet coloured in every way imaginable by its magocratic upper class. There were high end shops in Piccadilly that supply sorcerous artifacts to London's elites. The British Museum contains magical antiques (stolen from foreign cultures, much like the real British Museum) and the mummified remains of Bartimaeus' former employers. Tombs of Britain's most famous sons and daughters in Westminster Abbey are cursed and guarded by powerful spirits to discourage looters. Stroud's immense talent at world-building - or world-tweaking, really - also permeates every pen-stroke in The Screaming Staircase where he introduces us to yet another vision of London slightly askew. Lockwood & Co. is one of Britain's many enterprising agencies that had sprung up in the wake of the Problem - which is a typically English way of understating an epidemic of ghosts and hauntings spreading all across the British Isles. Suddenly, the spirits of the dead refuse to stay dead, and some categories of these spooks can hurt or even kill the living, either directly or otherwise. Employing children and teenagers with the psychic ability to sense ghosts, these agencies provide the increasingly valuable service of dealing with hauntings to the public. Stroud then layered this basic premise with commonsensical extensions of the concept by also introducing us to the corporate rivalry between these agencies, governmental offices which regulate them and perform research into psychic phenomena, and the economical microverse that revolves around ghostbusting like the iron and silver industries, lavender horticulturists and purveyors of good tea bags (preferentially by the Pitkin Brothers of Bond Street). If anything, Stroud had gotten much better at reimagining London since Bartimaeus. The Screaming Staircase is narrated by Lucy Carlyle, a young agent of exceptional talent who joined Lockwood & Co., an agency operating completely without adult supervision. Anthony Lockwood runs it, in Sherlockian fashion, from his residence at Number 35, Portland Street and through the course of The Screaming Staircase, proved to be an able understudy of the Baker Street sleuth. Anthony Lockwood intends to elevate Lockwood & Co. to be the number one agency in London and isn't above endangering his associates to achieve it. His deputy, George Cubbins, provides most of the comic relief in the book and is best described as the overweight, flatulent, male slob equivalent of Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter books and much like her, he approaches every problem by reading and researching the hell out of it. Reminiscent of the taxonomy of summonable spirits in the Bartimaeus books, Lockwood & Co. categorises ghosts into Type Ones to Threes, in an order of increasing intelligence, autonomy and malevolence. Within those Types are various species of spirits ranging from Cold Maidens to Poltergeists to Phantasms, and they are grouped according to their behaviour and abilities. Unlike the ghosts in Potterverse, the Visitors (as they are euphemistically called) imagined by Stroud are of the horror film variety: creepy, mindless and often violently murderous. Stroud clearly intends to scare his readers with them. Like the Bartimaeus Sequence, The Screaming Staircase is a breezy read - I finished it in a day and found myself hungering for the sequel. I could tell that Stroud already had the mytharc of the series down pat, and the grand architecture of it loomed ominously over the events of the first book. What is the Problem and what is causing it? I NEED TO KNOW! I guess I'll just have to wait for next year for the provisionally titled second book, The Whispering Skull. to be published. If George R. R. Martin manages to deliver The Winds of Winter next year as well, it would make 2014 a really good year indeed. I recommend The Screaming Staircase to just about anyone at all. It doesn't matter who you are, how old you are or that you don't even necessarily enjoy reading for leisure at all. 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