The Screaming Staircase
- 419
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Screaming Staircase” opens “Lockwood & Co.” with a ghost story that manages to be frightening and funny at once. It is well paced and cleanly written, and hauntings, detective work and friendship each get their share. Some readers who scare easily report a racing heart even though the book is aimed at a young audience. A good first step into Jonathan Stroud’s work.
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About the book
The Screaming Staircase is a young adult, supernatural thriller novel by Jonathan Stroud. It is the first book in the series Lockwood & Co., and was published on 29 August 2013 by Random House in the United Kingdom, and by Disney-Hyperion in the United States on 17 September 2013.
Reading order · Lockwood & Co.
Full order & progress →- The Screaming StaircaseThis book
8.28.2 / 10 - The Whispering Skull
8.28.2 / 10 - The Hollow Boy
–Not ranked yet - The Creeping Shadow
–Not ranked yet - The Empty Grave
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 223 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 60% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.1 | 24 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 199 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Screaming Staircase?
It has 419 pages — shorter than 70% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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