When the dead, not finding peace, deprive the living, in their way stands "Lockwood and company" . More than half a century, as the country was flooded with hordes of ghosts Extrasensory agencies are opened to deal with dangerous ghosts. Lucy Carlisle, a young, talented agent, came to London in the hope of making an outstanding career. Instead, she joins the smallest, nondescript agency in town, run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood. When one of their cases suffers a huge fiasco, Lockwood & Company has one last chance to fix the situation. Unfortunately, this means spending the night in a castle where there are more bloodthirsty ghosts than in all of England, and even screaming stairs, and you still need to get out of there alive. This is the first book in a new chilling blood series, full of tension, humor and truly creepy ghosts. You don’t have to sleep well at night. Jonathan Stroud's translation of the book: