The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding (0-439-54656-7)
This amazing teen novel has a setting that is completely captivating and overwhelming: a gas-lit London filled with fog and all sort of monstrous horrors.
This London is filled with wych-kin, monsters that suddenly appeared in London after the bombings during the war and have taken over a section of London. Thaniel is a wych-hunter, who hunts down the wych-kin when they begin to encroach on other sections of London. But there are more horrors in store for Thaniel when he finds Alaizabel Cray who is possessed by another spirit named Thatch. Who is Alaizabel and how did she come to be possessed?
It is one of the most terrifying novels for teens that I have ever read and also one of the best written and most fascinating. What a combination to be able to offer horror fans! They will be unable to put it down.