Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is a prolific British author whose fiction blurs history, biography, and Gothic fiction in a uniquely English way. Hawksmoor is a masterpiece of Gothic literary fiction, linking 18th-century London murders with present-day killings. His novels are saturated with London's history and its uncanny layering of time.
Works
- HawksmoorArchitect Nicholas Hawksmoor haunts present-day London in parallel narratives
- The Great Fire of LondonPlaywright's art and life blur while investigating London history and obsession
- ChattertonPoet's ghost shadows modern playwright investigating literary and historical mysteries
- The House of Doctor DeeAlchemist's shadow haunts modern scholar investigating occult London history
- Dan Leno and the Limehouse GolemVictorian crime and modern obsession converge in East End serial killer narrative