The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

AMONGST THE DARK STREETS OF LONDON DWELLS UNIMAGINABLE TERROR...

Thaniel, just seventeen, is a wych-hunter. Together, he and Cathaline—his friend and mentor—track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London. It is on one of these hunts that he first encounters Alaizabel Cray.

Alaizabel is half-crazed, lovely, and possessed. Whatever dreadful entity has entered her soul has turned her into a strange and unearthly magnet—attracting evil and drawing horrors from every dark corner. Cathaline and Thaniel must discover its cause—and defend humanity at all costs.

With vivid imagination and dark suspense, Chris Wooding has created a post-Goth masterpiece about a shattered society and all the evil that dwells within. "Read it if you dare!" writes the Glasgow Sunday Post, while the Times proclaims, "Wooding's novel is shiveringly exciting . . . but it is not a bedtime book for those of a nervous disposition."