Author:  Delaney, Joseph 
Interest age: from c 12 years
Published on 2 January 2014 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Red Fox) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Wardstone Chronicles' series.

Paperback | 448 pages
198 x 131 x 28 | 312g
The Spook's Curse is the second book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles – over 3 million copies sold worldwide!‘By now the dark has noticed you and will be trying to hunt you down . . .’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 – the Bane. As they prepare to battle it, yet another deadly enemy emerges to threaten Tom and his master.