Joseph Delaney Books in Order

Wulf serves as Pan’s chosen warrior in a County gripped by unnatural winter, while a demon calling himself Loki schemes to rule the Dark. Searching for allies like Grimalkin and Jenny, Wulf faces battles that twist time and force impossible sacrifices.

Years after Wulf and Tilda vanish from the County, Tom and Alice reach across time for help against a rising age of darkness. Wulf finds himself battling the Fiend at the height of his power and must harness new abilities or lose everything.

Now apprenticed to Spook Johnson, Wulf spends most days acting as bait for the Dark. Captured by the giant Hrothgar, who can shape deadly tulpas, he is drawn into a rescue mission for Tom and Alice that tests his strange new powers.

Novice monk Brother Beowulf is sent to spy on Spook Johnson, a coarse, unreliable fighter of the Dark. When real monsters attack the village, Wulf teams up with Tom Ward and discovers unsettling talents of his own that the Dark is eager to claim.

Now a trained gate grub, Crafty and his friends face ever stranger aberrations around the Castle and creeping betrayal within its walls. As bloody footprints in the snow and old enemies return, Crafty realises the real threat may come from inside their own ranks.

Crafty has spent months hiding from the deadly mist called the Shole, which covers most of Britain and breeds warped monsters known as aberrations. Taken to a fortress Castle as a trainee gate grub, he must brave portals into the Shole to survive.

In the final Arena 13 book, Leif journeys beyond the barrier imprisoning humanity while Kwin becomes the arena’s first female star. Each fights in different ways to topple Hob and the other superhuman monsters ruling their world, even if the cost is freedom itself.

As war with the Kobalos escalates, an unknown assassin moves between worlds, striking from the shadows. With the County facing an enemy powered by a god, Tom and his allies must uncover the killer’s identity and decide whether they are friend or foe.

After his first year as an arena fighter, Leif seeks answers from his late father’s people about the demon Hob. Returning to Midgard, he juggles deadly training, forbidden feelings for Kwin and a role in his master’s dangerous plan for revenge.

Tom Ward, now the Spook, is drawn north to lead human forces against the Kobalos, creatures preparing to plunge the world into endless winter. After a disastrous battle and an eerie resurrection, Tom must decide who he can trust in a shifting war.

In the brutal city of Midgard, orphan Leif dreams of becoming a champion in Arena 13, where fighters duel with living constructs and blades while the demon Hob watches. Training as a combatant, Leif hides a secret mission of revenge against the monster.

Will Johnson, a lazy seventh son of a seventh son, is on the verge of being dismissed as the Spook’s apprentice. Left alone with clear orders to avoid trouble, he ignores them when a desperate boy begs for help against a witch.

Years after Tom Ward becomes the County Spook, girls begin dying in unexplained attacks and their ghosts cannot rest. With a new apprentice, Jenny, he uncovers a terrifying northern enemy, the Kobalos, and realises his battles with the Dark are only beginning.

Fifteen-year-old Billy Calder starts his first night shift at a crumbling, haunted prison with forbidden cells and a legendary Witch Well. When illness sidelines the senior guard, Billy must face the terrifying prisoner no one else dares approach.

Alice Deane, witch and Tom Ward’s closest friend, narrates her journey into the Dark itself. To secure the final weapon needed to destroy the Fiend, she must walk through the worst memories of her past and decide what she is willing to sacrifice.

In the final Last Apprentice volume, Tom confronts the Fiend in a last battle for the County’s soul. Allies like Alice, Grimalkin and a powerful boggart stand beside him, but victory will demand heartbreaking sacrifices and may cost Tom everything he loves.

Far from the Spook’s County, the bloodthirsty creature Slither feeds on humans in a lawless borderland. After striking a bargain with a dying farmer, he escorts two young sisters toward safety, only to be drawn into a brutal war among the Dark’s servants.

With the Fiend bound at last, Tom returns to the County and discovers a village terrorised by blood drinking creatures from beyond its borders. When the Spook is captured and a tragic love story unfolds, Tom must face a new godlike enemy almost alone.

Driven across the sea, Tom, the Spook and Alice travel to Ireland, where goat mages plan to raise the ancient god Pan. Amid strange landscapes and new allies, Tom discovers the Destiny Blade, a weapon that offers power at a terrible cost.

This short tale follows Grimalkin before she became the Malkin clan’s feared assassin. Through battles, hard choices and the loss that fuels her hatred of the Fiend, it shows how she forged the ruthless code she lives by in the main Spook’s books.

Told from Grimalkin’s viewpoint, this story follows the fearsome witch assassin as she carries the Fiend’s severed head across hostile territory. Hunted by monstrous enemies created solely to kill her, she must rely on wits, blades and a fragile alliance with Tom.

In this darkly comic story, young Alice Deane is taken to be trained as a witch by her terrifying aunt and the aunt’s brain eating familiar, Spig. Their vicious rivalry spirals toward a grisly showdown that will shape Alice’s future.

Presented as the Spook John Gregory’s own notebook, this illustrated bestiary describes boggarts, Old Gods, witches and other denizens of the Dark, along with the tricks and rituals used to contain them. It is a field guide for would-be apprentices.

Returning from war, Tom and the Spook find their home destroyed and their enemies freed. Fleeing to the island of Mona with Alice, they face an old foe reborn and a creeping horror beneath the ground that threatens to swallow the island.

This collection of linked tales dives into the lives of the County’s witches, from child eaters and lamia assassins to Alice Deane herself. Each story reveals how dangerous, tragic and strangely human the women who serve the Dark can be.

This companion volume collects four stories from the Spook’s world, including John Gregory’s early days, Alice’s childhood and Grimalkin’s rise as an assassin. Short, chilling episodes flesh out key characters and showcase the County’s worst villains between the main novels.

To face a rising water witch called Bloodeye, Tom is sent north to train under the hard drinking, haunted Spook Bill Arkwright. Brutal lessons, a cursed marsh and the Fiend’s growing interest in Tom push the apprentice to his limits.

Tom’s mother returns from her distant homeland to raise an army against Ordeen, an ancient witch goddess poised to break into the world. Joining forces with Pendle witches and Grimalkin, Tom must choose between his duty to the Spook and his blood family.

Sent to the Spook’s bleak winter house on Anglezarke Moor, Tom finds restless spirits, a vengeful necromancer and a monstrous entity known as the Golgoth. Secrets from his master’s past surface, forcing Tom to decide how far he will go for loyalty.

Rumors of witch clans uniting in Pendle draw Tom, the Spook and Alice into a deadly conspiracy. To save his family and the County, Tom must navigate rival covens, betrayals and the first whispers of an enemy far worse than any witch.

Tom and the Spook travel to Priestown to confront the Bane, a powerful demon trapped beneath the cathedral. As an Inquisition hunts anyone linked to the Dark, Tom must protect his friend Alice and face a creature that can invade minds.

Young farm boy Tom Ward, seventh son of a seventh son, is apprenticed to the local Spook, Old Gregory. When Tom ignores a warning about a dangerous witch imprisoned on the moor, he unleashes an ancient evil that he alone must contain.

In a decadent temple where gambling and sadistic combat rule, warriors risk their lives in ritual duels of chain, hook and blade. As a legendary horseman named Mercer challenges the demonic guardian Kum, a mysterious woman becomes the key to light or darkness.