Ghost Spell
core novel 2017 Ghost World
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.50 (6 ratings, collected 2026-10-23) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9798215627907 |
Synopsis
Beneath a freezing Arctic sky a wolf brings a baby to a remote village, where the people take him in and call him Vulchanok, Little Wolf. He grows into a happy child, but night after night the wolf-witch who saved him walks through his dreams, leads him into the Ghost World and makes him a shaman. The villagers come to fear him, and he grows into a lonely man until a young wolf-witch comes out of the forest and claims him as her mate. Still longing for human company, he searches for visions by firelight in a spinning ice-apple and sees, in a distant city, a girl as lonely as himself, shut in a small room. Taking on his falcon skin, he flies to her window, and Kristiana and Vulchanok soon fall in love; but her brother Glev will never let her marry a rough northern huntsman, and Vulchanok's wolf-wife is fiercely jealous. A gothic romance, the fourth book of the Ghost World sequence.
Where it sits
- Universe: Ghost World
- Series: Ghost World core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Susan Price
Notes
- Listed as the fourth Ghost World book in the author's bibliography. ISBN recorded is the author's own paperback edition of January 2023.
- From the series record (Ghost World): Susan Price's fairy tales of a frozen Czardom of witches and shamans.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Ghost World: position 4 of 4: previous Ghost Dance (1994)
Sources
- Fantastic Fiction (bibliography)
- Toppsta (edition record, author's own paperback, 2023)
- Publisher description on the rating platform (screenshot supplied by Carlos, 2026-10-23)
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