Lockwood & Co. is a British supernatural detective thriller series developed by Joe Cornish for Netflix, based on the book series by Jonathan Stroud. The TV series, which consists of eight episodes, premiered on January 27, 2023, and follows the plots of the first two books, "The Screaming Staircase" and "The Whispering Skull." It is set in an alternate present-day Britain plagued by deadly ghosts, where children and teenagers run licensed ghost-hunting agencies to deal with the spectral threats. The series was cancelled after one season in May 2023. The original book series by Jonathan Stroud is a young adult supernatural thriller consisting of five books: "The Screaming Staircase," "The Whispering Skull," "The Hollow Boy," "The Creeping Shadow," and "The Empty Grave," published from 2013 to 2017. It follows three young operatives—Anthony Lockwood, Lucy Carlyle, and George Cubbins—of a psychic detection agency fighting ghosts in London. The story revolves around their ghost-hunting adventures, uncovering mysteries, and battling supernatural occurrences in a ghost-ridden London.
