The Hollow Boy
core novel 2015 Lockwood & Co
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.38 (38,036 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 374 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781484711897 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
The Hollow Boy, the third book in Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co. series, finds the three young psychic investigators battling ghostly Visitors in an alternate London plagued by supernatural outbreaks. A severe surge of hauntings engulfs the Chelsea district, baffling Scotland Yard and sparking public unrest, yet Lockwood & Co. find themselves mysteriously excluded from the official investigation even as they chase their own chance at recognition. Tensions rise within the small agency when a new assistant, the meticulous Holly Munro, joins the team, unsettling the group's dynamic and straining Lucy's confidence in her place among them. Meanwhile the trio juggles a string of unsettling smaller cases, from a house marked by unexplained bloody footprints to a department store plagued by strange phenomena, even as Lucy grows increasingly convinced she can communicate with the dead more directly than any agent should.
Where it sits
- Universe: Lockwood & Co
- Series: Lockwood & Co core; position 3 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 3 of 5: previous The Whispering Skull (2014) · next The Creeping Shadow (2016)
Sources
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