Spook's: A New Darkness

Spook's: A New Darkness
UK First Edition Cover
Author	Joseph Delaney
Illustrators	No information
Genre	Horror, Thriller
Publishers	Bodley Head Red Fox Greenwillow Book
Release Date	5th June, 2014
Place in Book Series	The Starblade Chronicles: Book One
Preceded by	The Spook's Revenge
Followed by	Spook's: The Dark Army

Spook's: A New Darkness, places itself after The Spook's Revenge, based on Tom Ward's career as a Spook, with his new apprentice Jenny, the first female Spook's apprentice.

The book is the first in the trilogy of The Starblade Chronicles, followed by Spook's: The Dark Army. It was originally released on 5th of June, 2014, in the form of hardcover. it was re-released as paperback by Red Fox in Febuary, 2015 and hardback and paperback in the US on September 1st, 2015 by Greenwillow Books.

Book Description

Girls are dying in mysterious circumstances . . .

They are found dead in their beds, covered in blood, with a look of pure horror on their faces. Worse still, their ghosts are left to walk the earth, just waiting for someone to hear the terror that has befallen them.

Thomas Ward is the local spook – it’s his job to protect the county from things that go bump in the night. But this is no ordinary haunting, and he finds himself on the path of a dangerous beast that is looking to kill again.

He soon realizes this beast is just the beginning. An army of monsters is massing in the north, and it poses a threat to all mankind.

Chapters

1. A Mysterious Death
2. The Girl with the Mousy Hair
3. Bad Things Happen
4. Where the Beaaty Lives
5. Purrai Have No Rights
6. Help Me, Please
7. The Starblade
8. John Gregory's Apprentices
9. A Neetle Patch
10. The Haunted House
11. A Rare and Special Type
12. Nicholas Brown's Glossary
13. Tom Ward's Test
14. Mother and Daughter
15. A Girl Like You
16. The Bones of Little Children
17. Practical Lessons
18. The Vartek
19. The Pursuit
20. The Fanatical Gleam
21. Grimalkin's Notes
22. Times are Changing
23. The Scream of the Boggart
24. The Journey Begins
25. The Shaiksa Assassin
26. The Sign
27. Prince Stanislaw
28. A Premonition of Death
29. The Worst Day of My Life
30. The Grief of Grimalkin
31. Washing the Body
32. A Terrible Mistake

Grimalkin's Notes

Glossary of the Kobolos World

Characters

• Thomas Jason Ward
• Jenny
• Grimalkin

Settings

• The Spook's House
• Chipenden

Gallery

French edition