Peter Ackroyd

The House of Doctor Dee

Alchemist's shadow haunts modern scholar investigating occult London history

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Peter Ackroyd
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.

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