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The highest point in the County

is marked by mystery.

It is said that a man died there in a

great storm. while binding an evil

that threatened the whole world.

Then the ice came again, and when it

retreated. even the shapes of the

hills and the names of the towns

in the valleys were changed.

now. at that highest point on

the fells. no trace remains of what

was done so long ago.

but its name has endured.

They call it –



The Wardstone.
 Chapter One

A Seventh Son




When the Spook arrived, the light was already beginning to fail. It had been a long, hard day and I
was ready for my supper.

‘You’re sure he’s a seventh son?’ he asked. He was looking down at me and shaking his head
doubtfully.

Dad nodded.

‘And you were a seventh son too?’

Dad nodded again and started stamping his feet impatiently, splattering my breeches with droplets of
brown mud and manure. The rain was dripping from the peak of his cap. It had been raining for most of