The Ghost in Bone
novella 2023 Felix Castor
Record
| First published | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novella |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781645241331 |
Synopsis
London's exorcists! I have a reward for all of you, a job for one of you, reads the newspaper advertisement summoning them to Brierley House. The ad is a baited hook, but it is a grand in hand just for turning up, and Felix Castor, short of work since the police stopped hiring him, goes in alongside the curdled cream of his dubious profession; once he is in, it is hard to get out again. Brierley House is the home of the Russian oligarch Gavril Ustinov, now missing, his driven daughter Ksenia and their staff of taciturn, sinister domestics, and it hosts an invisible force, seemingly centuries old, that attacks exorcists and negates their abilities. Ksenia wants Castor to find her father, alive or dead; Castor wants to know who set a trap for exorcists back in the late Middle Ages. A long novella, Castor's first appearance in fifteen years.
Where it sits
- Universe: Felix Castor
- Series: Felix Castor core; position 6 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: M.R. Carey
Notes
- A long novella published by Subterranean Press in a limited edition of 1,000 signed, numbered hardcover copies; Felix Castor's first appearance since The Naming of the Beasts (2009).
- 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 6 of 6: previous The Naming of the Beasts (2009)
Sources
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