The Devil You Know
core novel 2006 Felix Castor
Record
| First published | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.81 (17,360 ratings, collected 2026-10-18) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316511766 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stomping ground. It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle, but there is a risk: sooner or later he is going to take on a spirit that is too strong for him. When Castor accepts a seemingly simple ghost-hunting case at a museum in the shadowy heart of London, what should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism rapidly turns into the Who Can Kill Castor First Show, with demons and ghosts all keen to claim the big prize. But that is business as usual: Castor knows how to deal with the dead; it is the living who annoy him. The first Felix Castor novel, by the writer of the Lucifer and Hellblazer comics.
Where it sits
- Universe: Felix Castor
- Series: Felix Castor core; position 1 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: M.R. Carey
Notes
- ISBN recorded is the Orbit edition of the 2018 reissue.
- From the series record (Felix Castor): Mike Carey's five Felix Castor novels about a freelance exorcist in a London where the dead have risen.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Felix Castor: position 1 of 6: next Vicious Circle (2006)
- Internal chronology, within Felix Castor: position 1 of 5: next Vicious Circle (2006)
Sources
- Risingshadow (series listing)
- Civilian Reader (Orbit reissue announcement and publisher synopsis)
- AbeBooks (Orbit edition record)
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