The Last Apprentice: The Spook's Tale and Other Horrors
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Overview:
- Title: The Last Apprentice: The Spook's Tale and Other Horrors
- Author: Joseph Delaney
- Year: 2009
- ISBN-10: 9780061730283
- Publisher: Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins
- Price: $10.99
- Pages: 166
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Spook's Tale and Other Horrors
- Notes:
- Month from Amazon.com
- $12.99 in Canada.
- Has a dust jacket.
- The background of the cover has shiny gold shading - this hasn't scanned well. (It's more like the cover of the 2010 tp, but a bit wider.)
- The layout of the publication / Table of Contents is confusing - there looks like there are more stories than there really are.
- The Heading "The Spook's Tale" is followed by scene setting text, then has chapter headings interspersed with the story.
- The heading "Alice's Tale" is followed by scene setting text, then sub-heading "Mouldheels and Maggots" followed by the story.
- The heading "Grimalkins's Tale" is followed by its scene setting text, then sub-heading "The Witch Assassin" followed by the story.
- "The Gallery of Villians" is a set of extracts from the series - relating to various villianous characters, plus framing text.