The Books
The Spook’s Apprentice
Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins …
The Spook’s Curse
The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward have travelled to Priestown for some unfinished business. For, deep in the catacombs of the cathedral, lurks the Spook’s nemesis - The Bane. A creature he has never been able to defeat. As Thomas and his master prepare for the battle of their lives it becomes clear that The Bane isn’t their only enemy in town. The Quisitor has arrived, searching the county for those who meddle with the dark - witches, warlocks and Spooks! When the Spook is arrested and sentenced to death it’s up to Thomas, with a little help from his old friend Alice, to rescue his master.
The Spook’s Secret
As the weather gets colder and the nights draw in, the Spook suddenly receives an unwanted visitor. Tom’s not sure why the stranger’s presence has upset his master so much but the Spook soon announces that it’s time to leave Chipenden and move to his winter house at Anglezarke. The winter house is a bleak, forbidding place, close to the dark with a deep cellar full of bound witches and boggarts. As the winter months progress, Tom finds himself discovering more and more about his master’s past and the identity of the mysterious visitor, who it seems is the Spook’s sworn enemy.
Could it be that the Spook’s past is catching up with him? And how much danger will Tom be when the secrets his master has been trying to hide from the world are fully revealed?