The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray Collins claims he died witless and

claims he died witless and incapable

A divine exploration

and that Otho has been declared Emperor by the Praetorians who he had bribed to murder their own emperor

On the way he encounters a tiny but powerful warrior called Cornelius

peering down its streets

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray Collins claims he died witless andThaniel, just seventeen, is a wych hunter. Together, he and Cathaline his freind and mentor track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quater 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 Alaizabel's soul has turned her into a strange and unearthly magnet attracting evil and drawing horrors from the very depths of hell.