Lockwood & Co.: Psychic Detection Agency Of Ghostbusters

The Lockwood & Co. Series of novels is a series of fantasy and paranormal novels set in alternate history London and written by popular British novelist Jonathan Stroud. The first novel in the series was the 2013 published The Screaming Staircase that went on to become a fan favorite almost overnight. Since the publication of the first novel, Stroud has been publishing one novel in the series every year. The lead character in the series of novels is Lucy Carlyle who joins a Psychic Detection Agency in London working to fight an epidemic of ghosts. The ghoulish ghosts stalking the streets of Britain have a touch that brings death to everyone they meet except for children. Lucy Carlyle new detection agency is one of the smallest of the London

series of novels is mainly concerned with the three agents of the Lockwood & Co. agency of Ghostbusters in London, England. Lucy the lead character and narrator of the novel series is a fifteen-year-old girls and newest member of the company run by Anthony Lockwood a fellow teenager. Lucy who is also known as Lucy Purser is described as a quick-tempered girl that would start a fight at any time. Her father is a stationmaster in the North of England where she was born and raised for most of her early childhood. She had been a ghost hunter in a local agency but after some of her fellow agents were involved in a fatal hunt, she is so traumatized that she decides to leave and start over in London. Lucy’s talent is great empathy and a reassuring touch. Anthony Lockwood Lucy’s boss is a dashing though reckless teenager whose talent is great eyesight. Lockwood prides himself on his thorough approach to dangerous haunted house cases. He is a very mysterious man and the much we know about him is that he has poor hearing, possesses a glass jar possessed by a ghost, and has no family. Anthony’s deputy is the portly, slovenly, and cynical George Cubbins. George prefers longer wait times between hunts, and spends most of the downtime in preparation and research. While he gets along famously with Anthony Lockwood his boss, he does not get along with

is an explosive mix. Just like Stroud’s earlier Bartimaeus series, the Lockwood & Co series is set in epoch London that gives the supernatural and magical aspects of the novel more realism. Jonathan Stroud uses real buildings and roads in the settings of the novels even as established legends and folklore form the basis for the novels. For instance, salt, iron, and silver have been deemed powerful weapons against the paranormal for millennia. However, the novels also add elements of other cultures such as the social stratifications of the spirit world, which are derived from Arabian folklore. As for the essence of the novels, they are all about an other worldly scenario where the adults are helpless and have to depend on children to protect and even die for them. The adults are in great danger from the ghosts, as they cannot see them coming. On the other hand, kids can see the ghosts coming from afar and hence they have a chance to prepare and maybe fight them off. However, even as the children are the ones with the power to see and fight the ghosts, most of the agencies are run by adults, except for Lockwood & Co, which makes its own rules. Over the course of the series, Lockwood gets on the nerves of the adult agencies being more open minded in its methods. But even with their more