The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dark. Together they rid the county of witches, ghosts and boggarts. But now they have unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. 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 and destroy the curse of Priestown
was written I went to visit Joe and his wife and had a guided tour of lots of the places featured in this book. I’ve been to the graves at Hersham and Priestown (Preston) and seen the cathedral (actually it’s St Walburge’s church). It was amazing to see that these places really existed.
In the first draft of this manuscript the Bane didn’t speak. I thought that was a shame and said we needed to hear his voice. Joe wasn’t sure about this but a few nights later he had a very strange dream and started calling out in his sleep. His wife wrote down what he said and showed it to him in the morning. He’d been shouting ‘I’m got. I’m bound.’ Joe then knew it was the voice he’d been looking for and these are the first lines the Bane now says in