For years; the local Spook has been keeping the County safe from evil. Now his time is coming to an end; but who will take over? Many apprentices have tried. Some floundered; some fled; some failed to stay alive. Just one boy is left. Thomas Ward. He is the last hope. But does he stand a chance against Mother Malkin; the most dangerous witch in the County? Grimalkin: the Malkin witch assassin who formed an alliance with Tom and the Spook to destroy the Fiend, who killed their son. The Ghost Prison - The book occupies the same world as The Wardstone Chronicles, but with different characters and story lines (2013)

Slither: a skilled and powerful Kobalos mage forced by circumstance into taking up arms against his kind.

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Of course, Mam is a lot darker than you think – far darker and more dangerous than a witch assassin like Grimalkin. Before she met Tom’s dad she lured young men into the forest and killed them and drank their blood. As Tom’s mam she fought the dark but that was just a small part of her age-long existence. Audiobook versions of the series (unabridged) have been released in both the UK and the U.S.. The UK audiobooks were produced by Random House Audio. Jamie Glover read Book 1 and Will Thorp read Book 2. Thomas Judd read Books 3 through 8 and Book 10. Gabrielle Glaister read Book 9, Toby Longworth and Kate Harbour jointly read Book 11, and Annie Hemingway read Book 12. Random House Audio also produced an abridged version of The Spook's Apprentice which is read by Daniel Weyman.

it would be good to ressurect jnny in this book I would really love it but I love it how alice would react. Wish tom would ditch alice

Delve into the books of Joseph Delaney

The series is known by many different names: The Spook's Books, The Spook's Series, Spook's, The Spook's Apprentice Series, The Wardstone Chronicles and finally, the US editions, The Last Apprentice due to potentially American racial slang. The first book in the series, The Spook's Apprentice, was released as a movie adaption in 2015: The Seventh Son. ALSC's 2006 Notable Videos/DVDs, Recordings, Software, and Subscription Services for Children". School Library Journal . Retrieved 4 October 2012. The U.S. audiobooks were produced by Harper Audio. Christopher Evan Welch read Books 1 through 10, and he was joined by Angela Goethals in reading Book 11. Welch also read the short story collection The Spook's Tale And Other Horrors. Welch died of lung cancer in 2013. Angela Goethals read Book 12 and Alexander Cendese read Book 13.

The Spook's Bestiary - A guidebook to the creatures found in The Wardstone Chronicles universe. (2010)Thomas Jason Ward: apprentice to John Gregory and the seventh son of a seventh son, also the son of the ancient and powerful sorceress Lamia; from his father he has inherited the gifts of a spook and from his mother the ability to speed up, slow down, and halt time, the ability to locate his prey supernaturally, the ability to heal from otherwise-fatal wounds like a Lamia witch, and a "Lamia form" that increases his strength, speed, durability, and healing but also anger and bloodlust.

YALSA Fabulous Films & Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults". School Library Journal . Retrieved 4 October 2012. The Spook's Bestiary - A guidebook to the creatures found in The Wardstone Chronicles universe. Published in the U.S. as The Last Apprentice - The Spook's Bestiary: The Guide to Creatures of the Dark. (2010) From 2015 to 2017, Delaney published the science fiction Arena 13 trilogy. [10] He published the dark fantasy Aberrations series from 2018 to 2019. [11]The Starblade Chronicles are a trilogy following the continued adventures of Tom Ward, who has finished his apprenticeship and is now a Spook in his own right dedicated to fighting an unparalleled evil threatening the County, and the world. However, unlike past Spooks, Tom is only seventeen, and he is met with doubt and distrust by many in the County owing to his age. Complicating matters is his interactions with Jenny; the sixteen-year-old girl who seeks to be his apprentice, notwithstanding that women have never been Spooks before. Agnes Sowerbutts: Alice's aunt and Lizzie's sister, a benign witch, healer, and midwife who helps Alice and a young Grimalkin. She is killed for helping Alice by pro-Fiend witches, "living" on as a dead witch. He leaves behind his second wife (his first wife Marie died in 2007), two sons and a daughter, and his grandchildren.