Spook’s Stories Books in Order

Spook’s Stories gathers the side tales, novellas and companion books that orbit the main Spook’s novels. Instead of following Tom Ward step by step, these pieces zoom in on other characters, past events and corners of the County that Tom only hears about.

Some entries read like classic campfire stories from John Gregory’s own casebook. In The Spook’s Tale he remembers his early training and the grim mistakes that shaped his rules. Witches / A Coven of Witches strings together accounts of infamous witches such as Meg Skelton and Dirty Dora, showing how ordinary people can slide into horror.

The Spook’s Bestiary pretends to be Gregory’s handwritten notebook, complete with sketches and grisly anecdotes about everything from boggarts to Old Gods. Short digital pieces like Grimalkin’s Tale and Alice and the Brain Guzzler let those characters speak in their own voices, revealing loyalties and traumas only hinted at in the novels.

Other works push right to the edge of the main storyline. The Seventh Apprentice introduces Will Johnson, a failed apprentice who proves how deadly the work can be. The illustrated novella The Ghost Prison tells a standalone ghost story set in the same universe, where a young guard discovers why one cell is kept locked at all costs.

Because these are side stories, the stakes are often smaller and more personal, but the tone can be even darker. Delaney uses the shorter form to lean into folklore rhythms, twisty endings and monsters that might be too intense for the earliest Spook’s readers.

You can dip into Spook’s Stories between main novels or save them for later, once you know who everyone is. Either way, they deepen the world, explain how figures like Grimalkin became who they are, and add a satisfying layer of myth around the core series.