**Born** Joseph Henry Delaney
25 July 1945
Preston, Lancashire, England, U.K.
**Alma mater** Lancaster University
**Life and career**
On first leaving school, Delaney started work as an apprentice engineer. [Source: Open Library]
Titles4
Editions11
Adaptations1
Media3
Years covered1998–2005
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"I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born." Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new danger is threatening Tom's world: the witches are rising and the three most powerful clans are uniting in order to conjure an unimaginable evil. Tom and the Spook set out to stop the witches before they unleash the demon. But when Tom finds himself on his own, he wonders if he has the courage and cunning to defeat the most powerful enemy he has ever encountered.
As winter closes in, Thomas Ward follows the Spook to his bleak winter house on Anglezarke Moor. An unexpected visitor and the secrets surrounding his master make the isolated destination more dangerous than Tom anticipated. Witches and other creatures are stirring nearby, and rumors warn that an evil being called the Golgoth may be real. Tom must face what waits on the moor while discovering how much of the Spook's past has been hidden from him.
Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son, a birth order said to give him unusual gifts. He leaves his family to apprentice with the county Spook, whose work includes confronting ghosts, witches, and boggarts. The training is isolating and dangerous, and earlier apprentices have failed. When Thomas is deceived into releasing the witch Mother Malkin, he must use lessons he has barely begun to understand. The first Wardstone Chronicles novel follows his entry into a hidden world and the consequences of his earliest mistake.
Print · Random House · 2004 · English
eBook · Random House · 2004 · English
eBook · Bodley Head Children's Books · 2004 · English
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.
Print · Random House · 2005 · English
eBook · Random House · 2005 · English
eBook · Bodley Head Children's Books · 2005 · English
When Mother Malkin, the queen of evil witches, escapes the pit she was imprisoned in by professional monster hunter Spook decades ago and kills his apprentice, he recruits young Tom, the seventh son of the seventh son, to help him.
