The Spook's Mistake

The Spook's Mistake
The first edition cover of The Spook's Mistkae published by Bodley Head
Author	Joseph Delaney
Genre	Horror, Chiller, Children's Book, Mild Fantasy, Weird Fiction
Publishers	Bodley Head (UK Hardback Red Fox (UK Paperback) Greenwillow Books (US Edition)
Release Date	June 5th 2008
Place in the series	Book Five
Pages	480 (UK) 544 (US)
Preceded by	The Spook's Battle
Followed by	The Spook's Sacrifice

The Spook's Mistake is the fifth novel in the children's book series The Wardstone Chronicles written by English author Joseph Delaney.

Publishing Information

The novel was originally published on June 5th 2008 by Bodley Head in hardback but since then it has been released in paperback (published by Red Fox)and reprinted in a new-style cover.

The book was also released in the US as The Last Apprentice: Wrath of the Bloodeye due to 'spook' may be viewed as a racist term to some of the American population.

Book Description

As danger increases in the County, Tom is sent far north by his master to be trained by Bill Arkwright, another Spook. Arkwright lives in a haunted mill on the edge of a treacherous marsh and his training methods prove to be harsh and sometimes cruel. But he has toughened up many previous apprentices and now he must do the same for Tom and prepare him for the gravest dangers of his life. But when the Fiend sends his own daughter, the ancient powerful water witch Morwena, to destroy Tom, Arkwright makes an error of judgement and Tom finds himself facing his enemies alone. The Spook and Alice realising his danger, hasten to his aid but will even their combined strengths suffice in the face of such terrible dark power? And what is the Spook’s mistake, the consequences of which might give final victory to the dark?

Book Chapters

1. The King's Shilling
2. The Truth of Things
3. A Late Reply
4. The Mill
5. A Shrill High Scream
6. Water Lore
7. Frog-Kicks
8. The Fisherman's Wife
9. Whacks and Lumps
10. The Spook's Letter
11. The Witch's Finger
12. Morwena
13. The Hermit of Cartmel
14. A Dead Man
15. The Dancing Finger
16. The Trail of Blood
17. Pursuit
18. Two Messages
19. The Bargeman's Daughter
20. No Choice At All
21. Hobbled
22. Widdershins
23. A Witch Bottle
24. The Folly
25. Grimalkin
26. The Unthinkable
27. A Hard Bargain
28. The Fight on the Marsh
29. Where I Belong
30. The Black Barge
31. Whose Blood?

Deaths

Character	Killed By	Cause Of Death	Circumstances
Morwena	Grimalkin	Cut out her heart and fed to Claw.	The fight on the marsh.
Large number of water witches.	Tom and Grimalkin	Cut out their hearts and fed to Claw.	The fight on the marsh.
Mr Gilbert the bargeman	The Fiend	Unknown causes	Used as a vessel for The Fiend to walk the earth.

JordanLangston 06:09, July 12, 2010 (UTC)