The Spooks Nightmare is the seventh installment in The Wardstone Chronicles series of fantasy novels written by British author Joseph Delaney, published in UK in 2010. It follows the Adventures of the Spook, Alice Deane and Thomas Ward on the island of Mona. Its subtitle is "Are his powers waning?" which refers to the Spook. The Wardstone Chronicles was published as The Last Apprentice series in the USA and is a dark fantasy series of books and published in the UK by The Bodley Head division of Random House Publishing.