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- On Her Majesty's Psychic Service
series1 book2015
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- The Adventures of Dr. Caspian and Bronwen
series4 books1976
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- Shades of London
series4 books2011
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- Carnacki
universe102 books1909
Start hereCarnacki, the Ghost-Finder · Start here
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The card arrives without preamble: dinner at 472 Cheyne Walk, and afterward the tale. Thomas Carnacki explains nothing until his four friends are fed and settled by the fire — then, pipe lit, he recounts the thing he has just come back from, and at the last word turns them out into the Embankment dark with a curt "Out you go!" This is the world of the Ghost-Finder: an Edwardian London where a haunting is a case to be worked, and the man who works it trusts neither the credulous nor the smug. William Hope Hodgson raised Carnacki in a slim sheaf of stories — "The Gateway of the Monster," "The Whistling Room," "The Horse of the Invisible" and their fellows, gathered in 1913 and rounded out to nine. Each is a siege: Carnacki barricades himself inside a defended circle, half medieval and half modern — chalk, garlic, water-drawn pentacles and the glass tubes of his own Electric Pentacle humming against the dark — and consults the crumbling Sigsand Manuscript for a rite that may or may not hold. A century on, other hands keep the Chelsea rooms lit: William Meikle, the team of Chico Kidd and Rick Kennett, and editors such as John Linwood Grant, Robert M. Price and Sam Gafford send him after horrors Hodgson never named. What sets the cases apart is Carnacki's refusal to decide in advance. A whistling room may prove a swindle with a trick of plumbing behind it, or a genuine intrusion of the "ab-natural" pressing at the pentacle till the light fails — and until the last page neither he nor you can say which. Begin at the source: read Hodgson's 1913 collection in its own order, "The Gateway of the Monster" first. The later homages are a loose fraternity with no fixed sequence; take them up afterward, as the dark permits.
- Penelope Tredwell Mysteries
series3 books2012
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- The Turn of the Screw
series3 books1898
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Henry James's 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw follows a governess at an isolated English country house who becomes convinced that the two children in her care are being stalked by malevolent ghosts, narrated entirely through her own increasingly uncertain account. Its ambiguity over whether the haunting is real has made it one of the most discussed ghost stories in English literature and prompted later works built around it, including Michael Hastings's The Nightcomers, a 1971 prequel imagining events at the house before the governess's arrival. A stage adaptation of James's original text also exists.
- The Ghost Series
series12 books2003
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- The Green Eyes of Bast
Sax Rohmerstandalone novel1920
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Psychic investigator Dr. Damar Greefe encounters ancient sorcery and a cult whose leader is possessed by the murderous cat-goddess Bast!
- The Seance
John Harwoodstandalone novel2008
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The Seance is a 2008 horror novel by John Harwood. Set in late 19th century London, it follows the story of Constance Langton who in an attempt to make her mother healthy again takes her to a séance only to result in tragic consequences. The Seance won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best horror novel.
- The Wizard's Daughter
Barbara Michaelsstandalone novel1980
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WorldCat: When Marianne Ransom, a lovely orphan from the slums of Victorian London, moves to the mansion of the Duchess of Devonbrook, she finds her hidden psychic powers activated and learns their awesome power when she tries to summon her dead father's spirit.
- Vurt
series4 books1993
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In Jeff Noon's alternate Manchester, an entire subculture has formed around Vurt: a hallucinogenic, colour-coded feather that plunges users into a shared alternate reality as vivid and dangerous as real life. Vurt follows Scribble and his gang, the Stash Riders, on a search for his sister, lost somewhere inside a Vurt trip gone catastrophically wrong. The sequel Pollen continues directly from its fallout, while Noon's other novels of the period, including Automated Alice and Nymphomation, circle the same fevered, drug-soaked version of the city.
- Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroydstandalone novel1985
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Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches. Hawksmoor has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel and an example of postmodernism.
- Krewe of Hunters Offshoots
series4 books2012
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- Edinburgh Nights
series5 books2021
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T. L. Huchu's Edinburgh Nights series opens with The Library of the Dead, set in a dystopian reimagining of Edinburgh where magic and decline sit over the recognizable city. It's Huchu's third novel and the start of a run of five books following the same world further across later entries. The series stays grounded in a working-class, present-day Scotland rather than a wholly secondary fantasy world.
- The Witch of Prague
F. Marion Crawfordstandalone novel1891
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"The Witch of Prague (1891), with Byronic overtones, uses the motif of the Femme Fatale to explore powers of the mind." (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Crawford biographical entry by Mike Ashley
- The Haunted Hotel
Wilkie Collinsstandalone novel1878
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Lord Montbarry breaks off his engagement to Agnes Lockwood and marries the Countess Narona, with whom he lives in a Venetian palace. When he dies, Agnes Lockwood becomes suspicious of the circumstances, and goes to Venice with other family members to investigate. Staying in Montbarry's former residence, they experience a haunting.
- This House Is Haunted
John Boynestandalone novel2013
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This House Is Haunted is a novel written by Irish novelist John Boyne. It was first published in 2013 by Doubleday.
- Lockwood & Co.
series6 books2013
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Lockwood & Co. is a young adult supernatural thriller series by Jonathan Stroud. It follows three young operatives of a psychic detection agency as they fight ghosts in London, England.
