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.

Author Biography

Iain Sinclair is the award-winning writer of numerous critically acclaimed books on London, including The Last London, Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital and London Overground. He won the Encore Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Downriver.