The Feaster From The Stars - EN - Alan K. Baker - Paperback

Blackwood and Harrington book 2 of 3 completed trilogy

London, 1899 something strange is happening on the underground. 

The ghosts which haunt the platforms and tunnels are being seen much more frequently than usual. There is something on the network of which even the dead are afraid, and the train drivers and staff are becoming increasingly reluctant to work there. Queen Victoria instructs her Bureau of Clandestine Affairs to investigate. 

Enter Thomas Blackwood, Special Investigator, and Lady Sophia Harrington, Secretary of the Society for Psychical Research. Along with Detective Gerhard de Chardin of the Metropolitan Templar Police and the famous occultist Simon Castaigne, Blackwood and Sophia plunge into a terrifying adventure which takes them from the dank tunnels of the London Underground to the depths of interstellar space and a dying planet known as Carcosa, where a horrific being from beyond the ordered universe has set its sights on Earth. The being is know as the King in Yellow, or the Feaster from the Stars, and unless Blackwood and Sophia can prevail, it will descend upon the Earth and consume every living thing upon it!