Joseph Delaney

Joseph Delaney was an English writer best known for the Spook's series, a children's dark fantasy sequence of twenty books drawn from the folklore and geography of Lancashire. He was born in Preston, taught before writing full-time, and his first children's book, The Spook's Apprentice, won several awards. He also wrote the Arena 13 trilogy and the Aberrations duology. He died in Manchester in 2022, aged 77, and his final book, Brother Wulf: Wulf's War, was published posthumously in 2023.