The Creeping Shadow
core novel 2016 Lockwood & Co
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.52 (33,174 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 445 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781484709672 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
The Creeping Shadow is the fourth book in Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co. series. Having left the agency to work as a freelance psychic investigator, Lucy Carlyle earns a living taking on jobs that other London agencies find too risky or distasteful, keeping her distance from her former colleagues. When a client's stolen ghost-jar containing a powerful trapped spirit draws her back into contact with Anthony Lockwood, the two are pulled into their most dangerous assignment yet: tracing a black market trade in dangerous supernatural Sources that stretches through London's criminal underworld and far beyond ordinary case work. As Lucy and Lockwood dig deeper into the network of buyers and thieves supplying it, they begin to sense a scheme so unsettling that even hardened agents like themselves can scarcely credit what they are uncovering, one that threatens rival agencies and everything Lockwood & Co. has built.
Where it sits
- Universe: Lockwood & Co
- Series: Lockwood & Co core; position 4 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jonathan Stroud
Notes
- From the series record (Lockwood & Co): A completed 5-book YA supernatural-fantasy sequence, separate from Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Sequence, following a small London ghost-hunting agency during a decades-long haunting epidemic.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Lockwood & Co: position 4 of 5: previous The Hollow Boy (2015) · next The Empty Grave (2017)
Sources
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