Spook's: Slither's Tale
core novel 2012 The Wardstone Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (8,292 ratings, collected 2026-10-31) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780370332178 |
| Internal chronology | 11 |
Synopsis
Slither is not human. He comes from a place beyond the County, drinks blood to live, and has learned to survive by staying out of sight. The story is told from his own point of view as he enters the County and makes an uneasy agreement with a farmer. Under that agreement he comes to care for two girls and takes on the task of protecting them. Dangerous people are searching for them, and the world around Slither is moving toward a larger conflict he only partly understands. On the road he meets Nessa and sometimes crosses paths with Grimalkin, and he starts to learn what it means to belong somewhere and to be loyal to someone.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Wardstone Chronicles
- Series: The Wardstone Chronicles core; position 11 of 13 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Joseph Delaney
Notes
- From the series record (The Wardstone Chronicles): Thirteen novels following Tom Ward, apprentice to the County's spook, from 2004 to 2013.
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 The Wardstone Chronicles: position 11 of 13: previous The Spook's Blood (2012) · next Spook's: Alice (2013)
- Internal chronology, within The Wardstone Chronicles: position 18 of 20: previous The Spook's Blood (2012) · next Spook's: Alice (2013)
Sources
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