Josephdelaney Stories

"Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid." "How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely..." Tom Ward is a seventh son of a seventh son, which allows him to fight against denizens of the dark, such as ghosts, ghasts, boggarts, and witches. Now Tom is the Chipenden Spook and with witches in the County running amok, Tom is the only one who can stop them. But whenever he does try to settle the score with the malevolent witches of Pendle Hill, will it be the end of him? Once he's captured one of their own, will his death be imminent? Will the witches of Pendle call upon their only savior, the Alchemist, a being of great and terrible power, to stop Tom once and for all? Can Tom survive and defeat an enemy that can't be killed, and all before a curse that's been lain upon him seizes his life?

I had to remind them who I was. Send a clear message to all who pursued me that I was Grimalkin, the witch assassin of the Malkin clan. I had run for so long that they had grown disrespectful. I had to teach them fear again... 'I am Grimalkin and I could kill you all!' Grimalkin has made it her lifetime ambition to destroy the fiend, avenging the brutal murder of her son. Having grudgingly joined forces with the Spook and his apprentice, Tom, and assisted them in binding the fiend, she is now on the run. Her mission is deadly! In order to destroy the fiend's spirit for ever, Grimalkin must keep his severed head in her possession. No matter who-or what-comes after it... This short story is a modified version of Joseph Delaney's SPOOK'S I AM GRIMALKIN.