Joseph Delaney

For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil....

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dark....

Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts....

Thomas Ward has spent two years as the Spook's apprentice. He's faced unimaginable peril, and survived. But a new danger has emerged: an ancient water witch, Bloodeye....

It's going to be a long, hard, cruel winter. And there couldn't be a worse place to spend it than up on Anglezarke....

Something is terrorizing the villages of the county. People are dying - covered in blood, their faces frozen in fear. But with not a wound on their bodies....

Crafty halted, his heart lurching with fear, his mouth dry. There were bare footprints in the white snow, and each one was smeared with red, as if the owner of those clawed feet had stepped in a puddle of blood.... 

An assassin lurks in the darkness between earth and oblivion - but who are they, and what is their mission?

Thomas Ward was working as the new County Spook, fighting the Dark with his own apprentice....

As the Spook's apprentice, Thomas Ward's first duty is to protect the County from ghosts, boggarts, and other dangerous creatures....