The Spooks Curse is the second book in Joseph Delaneys terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide! By now the dark has noticed you and will be trying to hunt you down . . . Its 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.