The Darkling Trilogy

White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings and Lud Heat gathered in a single volume. From the singular imagination of Iain Sinclair—poet, novelist, and cartographer of London’s haunted geographies—comes The London Darkling Trilogy, uniting two of his most influential works for the first time in a single North American edition. White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings excavates 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. Lud Heat 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 London Darkling Trilogy stands 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.