For Tom Ward, the Spook's apprentice, the pressure is now on. Having bound the Fiend's spirit temporarily he now has to come up with a permanent solution - and quickly. But the forces of the dark are now throwing everything they have at Tom, and with the Spook ailing he is having to face more and more alone ...This is the tenth installment in the chilling "Wardstone Chronicles". Warning: Joseph Delaney's Spook's tales are not to be read after dark...