Recounts the frightening adventures of Thomas Ward, who is Spook's apprentice, covering details about Alice's dark past, how Grimalkin the witch assassin became so fearsome, and other details of the county's various villains.
As sixty-year-old John Gregory reflects on the past, he reveals how the world of ghosts, ghasts, witches, and boggarts was exposed to him and he later became the Spook, even though his first intention had been to join the priesthood.
