The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dark. Together they rid the county of witches, ghosts and boggarts. In this third and terrifying instalment in the Wardstone Chronicles, the nights are drawing in and it's time for Tom and his master to move to Anglezarke, the Spook's winter house. Tom has heard it will be a sinister and menacing place but nothing could fully prepare him for what he finds there. For this house, and indeed the whole of Anglezarke moor, is full of secrets about the Spook's past. Secrets that are about to come to the surface and could wreak havoc on the whole County . . .
I remember being totally outraged when I first read this manuscript and discovered the Spook’s secrets – especially the one about Morgan!
? I thought! But by the end of the book I really felt that like Tom, I was beginning to understand Mr Gregory more, and I now know why he doesn’t trust girls in pointy shoes. I love so much about this book – the herb tea, the deep cellar. And I must confess that when we worked on the last scene with Mam I cried. Oh, and I cried a bit in the final scene with Meg and the Spook too, even after I’d read it eight times in eight different drafts.