The Darkling Trilogy

White Chappell, Scarlet TracingsandLud Heatgathered in a single volume

From the singular imagination ofIain Sinclair-poet, novelist, and cartographer of London's haunted geographies-comesThe Darkling Trilogy, uniting two of his most influential works for the first time in a single North American edition.

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracingsexcavates the mythos of Jack the Ripper and Victorian London, interweaving true crime, literary obsession, and occult speculation into a hallucinatory investigation of violence and memory.
captures the pulse of London as a visionary landscape, charting the city's architecture, ley lines, and buried histories in a fevered mix of poetry, reportage, and esoteric speculation.

Together, these books form a darkly luminous map of a city-and a culture-in collapse and rebirth. By turns savage, satirical, and visionary,The Darkling Trilogystands as a cornerstone of Sinclair's work and a landmark in contemporary British literature. Long unavailable in North America, this volume restores two masterpieces to print for a new generation of readers seeking the feverish borderland where history, myth, and psychogeography converge.