And so, with my inheritance in my purse and my uncle’s parting words in my heart, I set out to hunt these fearsome creatures that walk the Earth as if they were men. The witch, the ghoul, the invisible devil. I knew not where my journey would take me, but I knew I must find their dwelling places and cast them out or else I would die in the effort. —Ubel H. H. F. Crane, The Call of the Nightfall King (1861)
