The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror

The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror is going on tour with Rachel's Random Resources, if you wish to participate please contact me on rachel@rachelsrandomresources.com with your name, blog name, preferred post type and availability.

The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror by Stephen Cox

Genre: Spooky Victorian Mystery

Tour Dates: 14th - 21st September 2026

Publication Date: 14th September 2026

Estimated Page Count: 370

Standalone Second Book in The Crooked Medium series

Formats available: Epub and Limited UK Paperbacks

Types of post available: Reviews, very limited guests posts, extract, Q&As (author and blogger supplied)

Author Content Warning: Murders and violent deaths occur neither overplayed nor underplayed. Discussion of historic crimes in guarded language. A clergyman makes some young women feel uncomfortable.

True terror is a murderer you can’t stop.

London 1882. A carpenter is killed by a train - an eerie, brutal crime. Flamboyant medium Mrs Ashton and her sapphic partner Braddie seek justice for the widow.

A charismatic new medium takes London by storm. Dock-lass Maisie sees her frightening prophesy of vengeance. A noble family is devastated, but worse is to come.

Outgunned and bewildered, the three confront a deadly conspiracy. They risk losing everything.

A reckoning from beyond the grave.

About Stephen Cox

My grandmother told me I read too much. I remember walking in the garden when I was small, telling myself stories. It was over thirty years of wanting to be a novelist before I tried… and succeeded.

The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder arose because I wanted to write about Britishness and specifically about Englishness; about our complex relationship with the past; I wanted leads who were morally grayer but still capable of kindness. It was time for a novel with queer leads. And in quite desperate times, I needed to write something with some uplift. It’s the first book intended to start a series.

My first books, Our Child of the Stars and Our Child of Two Worlds are set in the 1960s USA. It’s about Gene and Molly, a childless couple, and Cory, the little boy from the stars that they adopt, under such challenging circumstances. The books got lovely reviews and are available on both sides of the Atlantic.

I spent nearly all my childhood in Bristol, and I’m now an adoptive Londoner. I live with my partner, and it’s the best thing our two adult children come back from time to time. Our garden rages wild.

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