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A young [[DemonSlaying wych-hunter]], Thaniel Fox, finds an amnesiac young woman--the eponymous Alaizabel Cray--in the wych-kin infested Old Quarter; a police detective investigates the latest in a long series of murders by this history's UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper {{Expy}}, Stitch-Face. As Thaniel investigates Alaizabel's history--and the strange tattoo at the base of her spine--he discovers links to [[SecretCircleOfSecrets the Fraternity]], an EldritchAbomination-worshipping cult- cult, just as the detective works out that not all of the murders are the work of Stitch-Face...
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* AntiVillain/ VillainProtagonist: Stitch-Face is a JackTheRipper[[{{Expy}} UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper[[{{Expy}} -esque]] serial killer who describes himself as a monster. He also saves Alaizabel from the Fraternity and delivers a KarmicDeath; his role in the story is aiding the heroes, but his motivations are anything but heroic, never mind his methods, leaving it unclear on which side of the divide he lands.
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* EnemyMine: Stitch-Face tells Alaizabel more about the Fraternity and then lets her go after he realises [[spoiler: the Fraternity have got Thatch out of her.]] "I am a monster, Miss Alaizabel. But even monsters want to live."
* EnemyMine: Stitch-Face tells Alaizabel more about the Fraternity and then lets her go after he realises [[spoiler: the Fraternity have got Thatch out of her.]] "I am a monster, Miss Alaizabel. But even monsters want to live."
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* EldritchAbomination: The Wych-Kin and the Glau Meska (or [[Creator/HPLovecraft "Deep Ones"]]) worshipped worshiped by the Fraternity.
* EnemyMine: Stitch-Face tells Alaizabel more about the Fraternity and then lets her go after herealises realizes [[spoiler: the Fraternity have got Thatch out of her.]] "I am a monster, Miss Alaizabel. But even monsters want to live."
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A 2001 horror novel by Chris Wooding, set in an alternate-history London.
A young [[DemonSlaying wych-hunter]], Thaniel Fox, finds an amnesiac young woman- the eponymous Alaizabel Cray- in the wych-kin infested Old Quarter; a police detective investigates the latest in a long series of murders by this history's JackTheRipper {{Expy}}, Stitch-Face. As Thaniel investigates Alaizabel's history- and the strange tattoo at the base of her spine- he discovers links to [[SecretCircleOfSecrets the Fraternity]], an EldritchAbomination- worshipping cult- just as the detective works out that not all of the murders are the work of Stitch-Face...
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''The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray'' provides examples of:
* AllMythsAreTrue: When people start being killed by particularly grotesque fairy-tale characters, you know something's up. [[spoiler: Except they may have got [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve cause and effect]] a little confused...]]
* AncientConspiracy: The Fraternity
* AndIMustScream: Alaizabel, while controlled by Thatch.
* AntiVillain/ VillainProtagonist: Stitch-Face is a JackTheRipper[[{{Expy}} -esque]] serial killer who describes himself as a monster. He also saves Alaizabel from the Fraternity and delivers a KarmicDeath; his role in the story is aiding the heroes, but his motivations are anything but heroic, never mind his methods, leaving it unclear on which side of the divide he lands.
-->''Stitch-Face'': [[EvilVersusOblivion But even monsters want to live.]]
* [[spoiler: AsLongAsThereIsEvil: An unusual case- until humanity has the collective maturity to accept our failings, we need someone to blame; since it's the Age of Reason, there's no supernatural force to take responsiblity. That's where the wych-kin come in...]]
* BrokenPedestal: Mostly averted, because Alaizabel didn't think THAT good about her parents even before knowing the whole truth about them...
* ChekhovsGun: It would be suicide for anyone but a wych-hunter to go into the Underground, would it? Thank God for our heroes' occupational choices...
* ConnectTheDeaths: Hidden behind a series of relatively mundane deaths, the "Green Tack Murders" are part of the ritual to [[spoiler: summon]] the friendly neighbourhood [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]].]]
* CosmicHorrorStory: The Fraternity are [[spoiler: trying to bring about the return of the dark gods known as the Glau Meska. [[AndThatsTerrible The world won't be an entirely happy place if they manage]].]]
* CrapsackWorld
* CreepyChild: Devil-boy Jack; the small bald girl who [[spoiler: appears in people's dreams]] and gives them [[spoiler: the Crimson Fever]].
* DeclarationOfProtection
* DemonicPossession: Alaizabel is possessed by an ancient wych, summoned into her by the Fraternity.
* DemonSlaying: Despite the name, wych-hunters aren't bothered about witches- they hunt the wych-kin, basically every fairy-tale monster ever.
* EldritchAbomination: The Wych-Kin and the Glau Meska (or [[Creator/HPLovecraft "Deep Ones"]]) worshipped by the Fraternity.
* EnemyMine: Stitch-Face tells Alaizabel more about the Fraternity and then lets her go after he realises [[spoiler: the Fraternity have got Thatch out of her.]] "I am a monster, Miss Alaizabel. But even monsters want to live."
* FiveRoundsRapid: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Towards the beginning of the book, Thaniel demonstrates his ImprobableAimingSkills with a long shot at a Cradlejack about to escape into the Thames, but many wych-kin require slightly more esoteric methods.
* FridgeLogic: Apparently beggars are nocturnal now.
* FunctionalMagic: The wych-hunter use Wards (magical symbols with weird powers and [[AlienGeometries geometry]]) and Rites to aid with their job; Thatch [[spoiler: and, later, Alaizabel]] can draw Wards without anything to draw with. Or on.
** [[Main/GeometricMagic Geometric Magic]]: The haven of the wych-hunters is practically this trope incarnated, with the aforementioned [[AlienGeometries AlienGeometries]] just to add drama.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Having your body controlled by an ancient witch isn't exactly fun.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: The first hint that [[spoiler: Doctor Pyke]] might know more than he's letting on.
* InWhichATropeIsDescribed
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Stitch-Face never pays for his crimes. The again, the universe could be having him doing community service by making sure that the BigBad ''does''...]]
* KarmicDeath: Stitch-Face is [[spoiler: ''very'' unhappy that someone's been copying his work. He's off to... ''talk'' to Doctor Pyke about it at the end of the book...]]
* OracularUrchin
* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Semi-averted. One of the core themes of the book is the idea of the Age of Reason; since the most recent war, the old superstitions have disappeared. Then the wych-kin arrive, completely defying modern science and requiring a return to superstition to work out how to beat them. [[spoiler: And maybe their arrival just after everyone stopped believing isn't such a coincidence...]] This leads to...
* ScienceVsMagic: Many characters seem dubious as to the merits of the wych-hunters' methods. They work.
* ThievesGuild: mentioned, along with the society of the Croked Lanes- the beggars are organised in four gangs, each ruled by a Beggar Lord.
* ReligionOfEvil: The Fraternity are the SecretCircleOfSecrets variant.
* UrbanSegregation: We have the north side of the river, where people live; the south side- the Old Quarter, where poorer people work (and leave quickly before the sun sets); and the Crooked Lanes, where the beggars live.
* VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The Cathedral of the Fraternity- standard insane hyper-Gothic spire-covered monstrosity type, with the added bonus of being in the middle of an enormous storm.
* VirginSacrifice: Alaizabel. It didn't quite work out.
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Neatly sets up the alternate history setting with the second ''word''.
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A young [[DemonSlaying wych-hunter]], Thaniel Fox, finds an amnesiac young woman- the eponymous Alaizabel Cray- in the wych-kin infested Old Quarter; a police detective investigates the latest in a long series of murders by this history's JackTheRipper {{Expy}}, Stitch-Face. As Thaniel investigates Alaizabel's history- and the strange tattoo at the base of her spine- he discovers links to [[SecretCircleOfSecrets the Fraternity]], an EldritchAbomination- worshipping cult- just as the detective works out that not all of the murders are the work of Stitch-Face...
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''The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray'' provides examples of:
* AllMythsAreTrue: When people start being killed by particularly grotesque fairy-tale characters, you know something's up. [[spoiler: Except they may have got [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve cause and effect]] a little confused...]]
* AncientConspiracy: The Fraternity
* AndIMustScream: Alaizabel, while controlled by Thatch.
* AntiVillain/ VillainProtagonist: Stitch-Face is a JackTheRipper[[{{Expy}} -esque]] serial killer who describes himself as a monster. He also saves Alaizabel from the Fraternity and delivers a KarmicDeath; his role in the story is aiding the heroes, but his motivations are anything but heroic, never mind his methods, leaving it unclear on which side of the divide he lands.
-->''Stitch-Face'': [[EvilVersusOblivion But even monsters want to live.]]
* [[spoiler: AsLongAsThereIsEvil: An unusual case- until humanity has the collective maturity to accept our failings, we need someone to blame; since it's the Age of Reason, there's no supernatural force to take responsiblity. That's where the wych-kin come in...]]
* BrokenPedestal: Mostly averted, because Alaizabel didn't think THAT good about her parents even before knowing the whole truth about them...
* ChekhovsGun: It would be suicide for anyone but a wych-hunter to go into the Underground, would it? Thank God for our heroes' occupational choices...
* ConnectTheDeaths: Hidden behind a series of relatively mundane deaths, the "Green Tack Murders" are part of the ritual to [[spoiler: summon]] the friendly neighbourhood [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]].]]
* CosmicHorrorStory: The Fraternity are [[spoiler: trying to bring about the return of the dark gods known as the Glau Meska. [[AndThatsTerrible The world won't be an entirely happy place if they manage]].]]
* CrapsackWorld
* CreepyChild: Devil-boy Jack; the small bald girl who [[spoiler: appears in people's dreams]] and gives them [[spoiler: the Crimson Fever]].
* DeclarationOfProtection
* DemonicPossession: Alaizabel is possessed by an ancient wych, summoned into her by the Fraternity.
* DemonSlaying: Despite the name, wych-hunters aren't bothered about witches- they hunt the wych-kin, basically every fairy-tale monster ever.
* EldritchAbomination: The Wych-Kin and the Glau Meska (or [[Creator/HPLovecraft "Deep Ones"]]) worshipped by the Fraternity.
* EnemyMine: Stitch-Face tells Alaizabel more about the Fraternity and then lets her go after he realises [[spoiler: the Fraternity have got Thatch out of her.]] "I am a monster, Miss Alaizabel. But even monsters want to live."
* FiveRoundsRapid: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Towards the beginning of the book, Thaniel demonstrates his ImprobableAimingSkills with a long shot at a Cradlejack about to escape into the Thames, but many wych-kin require slightly more esoteric methods.
* FridgeLogic: Apparently beggars are nocturnal now.
* FunctionalMagic: The wych-hunter use Wards (magical symbols with weird powers and [[AlienGeometries geometry]]) and Rites to aid with their job; Thatch [[spoiler: and, later, Alaizabel]] can draw Wards without anything to draw with. Or on.
** [[Main/GeometricMagic Geometric Magic]]: The haven of the wych-hunters is practically this trope incarnated, with the aforementioned [[AlienGeometries AlienGeometries]] just to add drama.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Having your body controlled by an ancient witch isn't exactly fun.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: The first hint that [[spoiler: Doctor Pyke]] might know more than he's letting on.
* InWhichATropeIsDescribed
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Stitch-Face never pays for his crimes. The again, the universe could be having him doing community service by making sure that the BigBad ''does''...]]
* KarmicDeath: Stitch-Face is [[spoiler: ''very'' unhappy that someone's been copying his work. He's off to... ''talk'' to Doctor Pyke about it at the end of the book...]]
* OracularUrchin
* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Semi-averted. One of the core themes of the book is the idea of the Age of Reason; since the most recent war, the old superstitions have disappeared. Then the wych-kin arrive, completely defying modern science and requiring a return to superstition to work out how to beat them. [[spoiler: And maybe their arrival just after everyone stopped believing isn't such a coincidence...]] This leads to...
* ScienceVsMagic: Many characters seem dubious as to the merits of the wych-hunters' methods. They work.
* ThievesGuild: mentioned, along with the society of the Croked Lanes- the beggars are organised in four gangs, each ruled by a Beggar Lord.
* ReligionOfEvil: The Fraternity are the SecretCircleOfSecrets variant.
* UrbanSegregation: We have the north side of the river, where people live; the south side- the Old Quarter, where poorer people work (and leave quickly before the sun sets); and the Crooked Lanes, where the beggars live.
* VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The Cathedral of the Fraternity- standard insane hyper-Gothic spire-covered monstrosity type, with the added bonus of being in the middle of an enormous storm.
* VirginSacrifice: Alaizabel. It didn't quite work out.
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Neatly sets up the alternate history setting with the second ''word''.
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