We hope that his books will inspire children and adults to create stories and live dreams of their own. That would have made him happy.

The Last Apprentice: A Coven of Witches - The U.S. edition of the book The Spook's Stories: Witches, without the story about Grima since it was already included in the previous collection book. (2009)

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The first series, titled The Wardstone Chronicles, concluded in 2013, and was followed by The Starblade Chronicles in 2014, 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. We would like to thank Penguin Random House as well as all the wonderful people who helped him on his adventure and especially everyone who has read his books. Alice Deane: a witch who becomes Tom's closest friend. She is the daughter of Bony Lizzie and the Fiend (the Devil) and an immensely powerful witch who walks the line between good and evil. The Spook's Seventh Apprentice - A novella featuring the Spook's seventh apprentice, a boy named Will Johnson (2015) Gregory kills Tusk in battle by stabbing him through the forehead. Tom manages to "kill" Malkin at one point through a combination of his rowan wood staff, the staff's silver-alloy blade, and a furious river. Rowan wood, silver, and running water are all extremely dangerous to witches. However, as an extremely powerful witch, Malkin is able to live on as a dead witch, oozing into people's heads to control them. The Spook advises Tom that a witch can only be truly killed and sent to the Dark (an afterlife for creatures of the Dark and malicious humans roughly analogous to Hell) in one of two ways: either one must eat the witch's heart, or one must burn the witch's body.

Half-Minute Horrors (contributing author of "All Fingers and Thumbs" to this short story anthology) – 2009 Delaney married Marie Smith in 1968; they had three children and nine grandchildren. She died of cancer in 2007. In 2014, he married Rani Kuncher Vannithamby. [1] It's the job of the Spook and his apprentice; Thomas Ward; to protect the County from the dark. But deep in the catacombs beneath Priestown lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat âeuro;' the Bane. As they prepare to battle it; yet another deadly enemy emerges to threaten Tom and his master. He travelled widely to promote his books, spending lots of the winter in New Zealand and Singapore, as he hated the cold, but most of his time was spent in his home county Lancashire – a place embedded in all of his writing. The Last Apprentice: The Spook's Tale And Other Horrors – A collection of four short stories [ The Spook's Tale; Alice's Tale; Grimalkin's Tale; A Gallery of Villains]; this is a USA-released compilation incorporating the earlier published The Spook's Tale. – 2009

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I really like the Spook’s books and they are my new favorite but I have a few questions regrading witches. John Gregory, the main spook for the County who mentors Thomas. He previously was a priest. He is also a seventh of the seventh son.