title: Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night
author:  Sukhdev Sandhu 
description: Some of the most ambitious and memorable work of the last decade.<i>Time Out</i><br /><br />Artangel is truly on the side of the angels.<i>Independent</i>
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  # The Golden Scorpion
  
  
  ## Sax Rohmer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PART I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  The Cowled Man
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. THE SHADOW OF A COWL
  
  
    
  
  
  KEPPEL STUART, M.D., F.R.S., awoke with a start and discovered himself
  
  
  to be bathed in cold perspiration. The moonlight shone in at his window,
  
  
  but did not touch the bed, therefore his awakening could not be due to
  
  
  this cause. He lay for some time listening for any unfamiliar noise
  
  
  which might account for the sudden disturbance of his usually sound
  
  
  slumbers. In the house below nothing stirred. His windows were widely
  
  
  open and he could detect that vague drumming which is characteristic of
  
  
  midnight London; sometimes, too, the clashing of buffers upon some
  
  
  siding of the Brighton railway where shunting was in progress and
  
  
  occasional siren notes from the Thames. Otherwise--nothing.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  He glanced at the luminous disk of his watch. The hour was half-past
  
  
  two. Dawn