The Darkling Trilogy

By Iain Sinclair

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 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 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644284952
• ISBN13: 9781644284957
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Rare Bird Books
• Length: 350 Pages