
His fantastic mind seems to be an endless pit of fascinating places to see and adventures to go on. Joseph Delaney is now 70 years old and even after more than a decade of being a widely published author he still continues to amaze us with his broad imagination. Mercer’s Whore is another of Haderack’s works and while the storyline is unique to Delaney’s familiar writing style, there are elements which only Delaney himself could have conjured up within his darker fantasy mind. Which was published in 1996 within a short story compilation entitled Elvara Should Be Easy. K Haderack, such as Mysterious Erotic Tales. Also, The Spook’s Tale/Interception Point is a short story which was joined with Mark Walden’s Interception Point as a major aspect of an extraordinary distribution for World Book Day UK 2009.Īlthough not well-known, it is worth noting Joseph Delaney’s work under his pseudonym of J. Such as, his son Stephen Delaney adapting The Spook’s Apprentice into a 160-page play script. There have also been spin-off projects of Joseph Delaney’s work. The film wasn’t incredibly well received by critics and audiences alike, most likely due to the large amount of differences between the details in the book and those in the film. It has sold over 1 million copies worldwide.įinally released in theaters in 2015, The Spook’s Apprentice was featured in a film starring Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore entitled The Seventh Son. Having spent 7 weeks in the best seller charts, The Spook’s Apprentice was a great success for Delaney.

They have been published in 24 countries, with 3 novels being short-listed for the Lancashire Children’s Book for the Year Award. Joseph Delaney has averaged one novel per year with the Wardstone series.
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To reading buffs and those familiar with Joseph Delaney’s work, The Chronicles series are quite often referred together as The Spook’s Series. Choosing to be as unique as possible with the story, Joseph created his own witch clans and Malkin Tower a very formidable fortress to be reckoned with. It’s difficult for the now 17 year-old Ward to win over trust in his community, his issues even more complicated by the 15 year-old Jenny pestering him to become his apprentice.ĭelaney tells us ‘The Spook Battle’ is set in the Pendle District, of which he did a lot of research on accounts of the witch trials held in this area in 1612. He has finished his apprenticeship and is now a full-fledged ‘Spook’. The Starblade Chronicles are a trilogy which follow the continued life of Tom Ward.
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John Gregory is Ward’s mentor, teaching him how to take on ghosts, witches, ghasts and other creatures that serve ‘The Dark’. Which, in Delaney’s definition, is a ‘master fighter of supernatural evil’.

Ward – the seventh son of a seventh son, apprenticed to become a ‘Spook’. The series chronicles the adventures of the lead character Thomas J. Following this success, he retired from teaching and concentrated exclusively on writing.


It wasn’t until 2004, however, where he finally received international recognition as a novelist with The Wardstone Chronicles. This nightmare is the main muse for Joseph Delaney’s style and writing subject matter.ĭelaney first wrote under the pseudonym J.K Haderack. It would pick him up and carry him back down to the cellar with it. It was at this College where Joseph Delaney helped start the Media and Film Studies Department.Īs a child, Delaney had a re-occurring nightmare where he was sitting on the carpet and suddenly the room would be overtaken by a deep chill and a dark shadow-like figure would rise up from the coal cellar. Studying A levels at night, Delaney earned entry into Lancaster University, whereby he eventually became an English teacher at the Blackpool Six Form College. He attended Preston Catholic College before working as an apprentice engineer and fitter. Such as, The Wardstone and Starblade Chronicles. Born in Preston, Lancashire, England on July 25, 1945, Joseph Delaney is the author of several renowned science fiction and fantasy novels.
