The Books
Jonathan Stroud's five-book series, from the first night on Sheen Road to the last stand at the Other Side.
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Lockwood & Co.
Explore the world of London's last independent psychic investigation agency.
Welcome to the ultimate digital archive for Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co. universe. Discover the books, the Netflix adaptation, characters, cases, locations, lore, and more.
Featured Sections
Where would you like to begin?
Six ways into the case files. Every door leads somewhere deeper.
Netflix Series
Complete Fiction's adaptation, episode by episode — and how faithfully it follows the page.
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Characters
Agents, adversaries and the occasional talking skull. Everyone worth knowing in haunted London.
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Ghost Types
Lurkers, Shades, Poltergeists and worse — how to identify a Visitor before it identifies you.
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The Kit
Iron chains, silver seals, salt bombs and magnesium flares. Never leave the office without them.
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Locations
Combe Carey Hall, the Aickmere Brothers store, 35 Portland Row — the addresses that made the files.
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Discover Yourself
Find Your Place Among London's Psychic Agents
Ever wondered which member of Lockwood & Co. you're most like? Or what psychic Talent you'd possess during The Problem?
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Which Character Are You?
Twelve questions between you and an uncomfortable truth about yourself. 12 questions.
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What's Your Psychic Talent?
Sight, Listening or Touch — find out what the Problem would have woken in you. 10 questions.
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Which Agency Would Recruit You?
Fittes, Rotwell, or a certain independent outfit on Portland Row. 10 questions.
Character Spotlight
Today's featured file
Bobby Vernon
The smallest agent on the team and, inconveniently for George, the best-resourced researcher in London.
Fittes gives Vernon what Portland Row can only envy: an archive, a budget and time. He is George's opposite number in every sense, and the rivalry between them is conducted almost entirely in footnotes.
- Speciality
- Research
- Agency
- Fittes
- Unit
- Kipps's team
The spotlight rotates — a different name takes the desk each day.
Latest Additions
Newly filed in the archive
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Why the Problem Started: Every Theory, Ranked
Fifty years of hauntings and still no agreed cause. We weigh the evidence for each explanation the series puts on the table.
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Quill Kipps
A full profile for Fittes' most persistent thorn — from rival supervisor to reluctant ally.
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The Red Room, Combe Carey Hall
Sources, casualties and the full sequence of the night the Screaming Staircase earned its name.
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35 Portland Row — Illustrated Floor Plan
A reader-drawn plan of the house, from the rapier-scarred basement to the door nobody opens.
A memorable quote
Old enough and young enough.