History Characters / TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites

Characters from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the Kemmlerites.

* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry's Household]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil The White Council]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheVampires The Vampire Courts]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoPDAndFBI Chicago Police and FBI]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities Other Powerful Entities]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOrdinaryPeopleAndBadassNormals Ordinary People and Badass Normals]]

* KilledOffForReal: The White Council killed him ''real'' good, though it took seven attempts to make it stick.

* BigBadEnsemble: He, the Corpsetaker, and Cowl are all fighting for the position of gaining the Darkhollow's power in ''Dead Beat'', but Cowl eventually outmaneuvers the rest of them and becomes the novel's FinalBoss.

* UncertainDoom: Unlike Cowl, who makes a cameo of sorts in ''White Night'', it's unknown if she managed to survive the Darkhollow's destruction. See above under InferredSurvival, though, for why she likely survived.

* KarmicDeath: [[KingOfTheDinosaurs Sue]] eats him.

* WeaponOfChoice: A tulwar.

* WeaponOfChoice: A Kusari-gama which he is quite skilled with.

* WeaponOfChoice: During his second appearance, it was [[IronicEcho a Louisville Slugger]].

* NiceHat: Amusingly subverted; Harry is gobsmacked to see him walk into the morgue wearing a ''fedora'' and even gives a NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer about it.

* DumbassHasAPoint: From Evil Bob's perspective Harry is an infant wizard with potential but clouded by stupid things like morality. However, when Harry rationally points out that Evil Bob stopping to offer Harry a WeCanRuleTogether speech is in his self-interest, Evil Bob notes he doesn't have such a thing. When Harry replied that Evil Bob had the superior advantage over Harry in most every aspect and need not make the offer but did so and offered to help usurp Corpsetaker, it must be because Evil Bob feels his interests would be better served working with a less insane Harry than the egomaniac Coprsetaker. Ergo, Evil Bob does have self-interest and can choose to act on it. Evil Bob realizes there might be some validity to this and will think on it later, but now must kill Harry.

* YouMakeMeSic: When he first meets Harry, he gets flustered at his grammar[[note]]Specifically, saying, "Butters and me leave" as opposed to "Butters and I leave"[[/note]] and starts trying to correct it.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Harry guess from his reduced height, accent, and skin tone in ''Death Masks'' that he was originally a Moorish soldier from the Early Middle Ages.

* NotSoDifferent: Harry's conversation with Evil Bob implies that Harry and Kemmler might have been similar.

* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry and Harry's Household]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Kemmler is dead. Very, ''very'' dead. The Council killed him ''real'' good, but it took a few tries to make it stick. ''Seven'', according to Ghost Story.

Evil Bob is the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dark side of Regular Bob]] that served Kemmler for centuries just as Regular Bob serves Harry now. While technically not a member of the Kemmlerites, he made his first appearance in the same book as the rest of them, nearly killing Harry in the process. Harry, not wanting someone to gain access to that part of him again, ordered Bob to forget it completely. Naturally, this backfires as Bob, a creature ''made'' of living information, took that order as a command to remove that part of himself like a diseased limb. This led to it becoming TheDragon to the Corpsetaker's ghost in Ghost Story. Evil Bob is still out there, last seen locked in combat with his regular self in the Nevernever, and Bob decided to run the moment Harry was clear.

For Quintus Cassius (whom Dresden calls "Liver Spots" during the ''Dead Beat'' case), see his entry under [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians the Denarians]].

[[folder: Kumori]]
!!Kumori

Cowl's apprentice[=/=]sidekick. Apart from the fact that she's female and a pretty solid WellIntentionedExtremist, she's almost as much a blank slate as her boss.

* AntiVillain: Compared to the other members of Necromancers-R-Us, to the point of bordering on being a TokenGoodTeamMate. She took time, and more importantly, magical strength in a time when she could need it against other wizards and her master's competition to save a man's life.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: ''Believes'' she's this, but only time will tell for certain.
* BlackCloak: Apart from being slightly smaller and having a female voice, she's pretty much identical to Cowl when her hood's up.
* DarkIsNotEvil: How she views herself and Cowl. Harry disagrees.
* TheDragon: To Cowl.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: While she's loyal to Cowl, he seems to have brought her on board by promising to end death once he becomes a PhysicalGod, and is quite intent on making sure that it happens.
* EnigmaticMinion: Who serves an enigmatic master, no less.
* EvilCounterpart: Just as Cowl is one to Harry Dresden, she seems to be one for Molly Carpenter: a younger, female apprentice who strays dangerously close to misusing her powers (but remember to add a mental "maybe" next to "Evil").
* InferredSurvival: In-universe, it has never actually been confirmed whether or not she survived the magic explosion at the end of ''Dead Beat'', as in ''White Night'' Cowl appears alone and does not mention her. Fans generally assume that she did, however, if only for the meta reasoning that killing her off before her identity is revealed would be a strange decision.
* InTheHood: Though unlike Cowl, she's willing to let it down every once in a while.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: This is why she wants everyone else to. Harry points out that by preserving everyone, she would be keeping around the tyrants, the torturers, the genuinely evil people as well as the intellectual all-stars.
* {{Necromancer}}: Like her mentor, she doesn't directly use her powers to raise the dead like the other antagonists in the book, but she ''does'' use it to keep a dying man alive long enough for paramedics to save him.
* PetTheDog: Using her necromancy to save a dying man's life. Harry is disturbed at the implications. Darkly subverted when it's later revealed that the process was ''excruciatingly'' painful for the "patient," and that he might have been permanently negatively affected by the process.
* UncertainDoom: Unlike Cowl, who makes a cameo of sorts in ''White Night'', it's unknown if she managed to survive the Darkhollow's destruction. See above under InferredSurvival, though, for why she likely survived.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: More explicitly than Cowl; she genuinely believes that she can use her necromancy to benefit humankind.
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[[folder: Capiocorpus, aka the Corpsetaker, aka the Grey Ghost]]
!!The Corpsetaker

One of the disciples of mad necromancer Heinrich Kemmler, the Corpsetaker is a necromancer who specializes in mental magic, raising spectres, and using dark magic to allow them to jump between bodies. Violent, savage, and thoroughly insane, albeit hidden behind a thin veneer of affable friendliness. One of the members of the Kemmlerite gang that showed up in ''Dead Beat'' to initiate the Darkhallow. When Harry encounters the Corpsetaker, they have stolen the body of a college student named Alicia Nelson. Returns for another round in ''Ghost Story'' as "the Grey Ghost," the novel's BigBad who is stuck as a ghost and intent on coming BackFromTheDead.
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[[folder:Li Xian]]
!!Li Xian

A ghoul serving under the Corpsetaker, both as her assistant and drummer to control her spectres.

* DeathByIrony: The cannibalistic man-eating Ghoul ends up being EatenAlive.
* TheDragon: To the Corpsetaker.
* FlatCharacter: Out of all the Kemmlerites, he has the least characterization, mostly because he's more the Corpsetaker's muscle than an out-and-out Kemmlerite.
* ImAHumanitarian: Like all ghouls, Li ''likes'' human flesh.
* KarmicDeath: [[KingOfTheDinosaurs Sue]] eats him.
* McNinja: A ninja ghoul.
* NinjaZombiePirateRobot: He's a ninja ghoul who specializes in throwing stars.

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[[folder: Grevane]]
!!Grevane

The first of Kemmler's disciples, Grevane is a leathery old man who was Kemmler's "favored" student. Grevane's specialty is in raising large numbers of powerful zombie minions. As in, ''hundreds'' of them at a time.

Grevane was also associated with the Thule Society, though it's not clear if he was a member.
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[[folder: Cowl]]
!!Cowl

-> ''I do not perceive myself to be mad. But if I were truly mad, would I be able to tell?''

An incredibly powerful and mysterious necromancer who, with his assistant Kumori, showed up in ''Dead Beat'' to try to harness the Darkhallow. Both he and his assistant Kumori are probably White Council members, and they're pretty much confirmed to be on the Black Council, but their identities are otherwise unknown. Cowl does, however, deny being a Kemmlerite.

* AffablyEvil: While not as friendly as Nicodemus or Marcone, Cowl is pretty respectful of Dresden after the latter flips a car on him.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Is he really NecessarilyEvil or just evil?
* BigBad: He's a strong contender for having this role regarding the whole series, being a high-ranking member of the Black Council who is almost guaranteed to be aligned with Nemesis and the Outsiders.
** BigBadEnsemble: He, Grevane, and the Corpsetaker are all fighting to gain the Darkhollow's power in ''Dead Beat'', with Cowl as the most active in directly countering Harry's attempts to foil the Kemmlerites. He eventually outmaneuvers the others and becomes the novel's FinalBoss.
** GreaterScopeVillain: To Vittorio Malvora in ''White Night'', having taught him how to perform magic and even acting in the FinalBattle in the Raith Deeps to try and prevent Harry & Lara from successfully escaping.
* BlackCloak: Harry, of course, makes lots of bad jokes about it.
* ChekhovsGunman: First seen in ''Grave Peril'' with the rest of ChekhovsArmy, giving Lea the athame. Not really introduced until he shows up 4 books later with the rest of Necromancers-R-Us.
* DentedIron: When Harry catches a glimpse of him in ''White Night'', he's described as moving in visible pain and is clearly strained, implying that he still hasn't fully recovered from the Darkhollow going off in his face.
* {{Determinator}}: Had a ''car'' thrown at him and was only reduced to having a slight limp afterwards. Multiple death curses or the Darkhallow destabilizing and literally exploding in his face have not stopped this guy.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He shows up way back at Bianca's party in ''Grave Peril'', handing Ferrovax and Lea their presents. Nothing in that appearance indicated how important he'd become later on.
* EvilCounterpart: Dedicated, a bit curmudgeonly, and uses dark power for what seem to be good-ish purposes. Yep, he's basically Harry Dresden but if he became TheUnfettered, went full black-hat, and decided to put his own goals above the value of other people's lives. It's getting even more pronounced as of "Zoo Day", where he's strongly implied to have acquired one of the pups from Mouse's litter.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He has disdain for Kemmler, whom he calls a "madman". Possibly subverted when he later suggests that he was actually one of his students - or at least was willing to pretend that he was working to fulfil Kemmler's legacy to the other Kemmlerites as much as they were.
* EvilSorcerer: Who may or may not be NecessarilyEvil, if you believe him.
* TheFaceless: His cloak conceals his true appearance.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: We know what he was after in ''Dead Beat'' specifically, but his long-term goals are still mysterious.
* ImplacableMan: See above, the car.
* InTheHood: Part and parcel of his [[BlackCloak aesthetic]].
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Vittorio Malvora, in ''White Night''. Likely to a lot of other things, too.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: Breaks Dresden's binding over the Erlking, making him responsible for all of the deaths caused by the Wild Hunt in Chicago. He also caused the massive hexes over the city in preparation for the Darkhollow, and was almost the one to take in the Darkhollow itself (which would've caused the deaths of essentially ''everyone'' in the whole damn city). All three times he shrugs off these horrific losses of innocent life as just part of his job as a WellIntentionedExtremist.
* NearVillainVictory: If Harry had been ''just'' a few seconds slower, than Cowl would've taken control of the Darkhollow and ensured the Black Council's victory.
* {{Necromancer}}: He'd have to be, in order to make use of the Darkhallow and be Kumori's mentor, though he doesn't use these abilities as often as the other members of the Necromancers R Us.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He destabilized the barrier between the spirit world and Chicago so much in preparation for the Darkhollow that it allowed Harry to resurrect Sue and completely destroy his plans.
* NoNameGiven: Introduces himself as "Cowl", but it's pretty obviously not his real name. This has generated a lot of EpilepticTrees.
* NotSoDifferent: Harry notices a lot of similarities between the two of them in ''Dead Beat'', and is appropriately disturbed by the implications. In particular Cowl gives the same musing of "I don't think I am mad, but if I were mad, would I notice?" that Harry had himself gone through earlier in the book.
* StrongAndSkilled: Dresden explicitly states that he's even stronger than Ebenezar [=McCoy=] - and this is ''after'' he knew about [[ColonyDrop Casaverde]] and everything else Ebenezar did as the Blackstaff - and he's demonstrated to have ''serious'' technical skill, discussed when he pulled the complex hex on Chicago to black it out in ''Dead Beat''. Bob also speculates that he might have known that Halloween was one of the very few times the Darkhollow could have actually worked.
* VillainRespect: While initially unimpressed (with him mocking Dresden by claiming that he was hoping that he was "ready to compete with the heavyweights"), Cowl quickly becomes very respectful of Dresden's abilities, both magical and deductive. He in fact notes that he believes Dresden really could have contained the Erlking the entire night, something Harry himself doubted he'd actually be able to do (describing his chances as a spider's chance of entrapping a tiger).
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Why does he want to become a god in ''Dead Beat''? He thinks it's inevitable that ''someone'' will and considers himself the least possible evil (and when you look at [[TheSociopath Corpsetaker]] and [[AxeCrazy Grevane]], he probably has a point...). Also, if his apprentice Kumori is anything to go by, his ultimate goal of seizing control of the Darkhallow and becoming a lowercase-g god was for the purpose of [[DeathTakesAHoliday ending death]].
* WickedCultured: Is a fan of Goethe.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Kumori]]
!!Kumori

Cowl's apprentice[=/=]sidekick. Apart from the fact that she's female and a pretty solid WellIntentionedExtremist, she's almost as much a blank slate as her boss.
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* BigBad: For ''Dead Beat'', being the one who is the most active in directly countering Harry's attempts to foil the plots of he and the other Kemmlerites. He's also the GreaterScopeVillain to Vittorio Malvora (the BigBad of ''White Night''), having taught him how to perform magic and even acting in the FinalBattle in the Raith Deeps to try and prevent Harry & Lara from successfully escaping. Really, he's a big contender for having this role regarding the whole series, being a high-ranking member of the Black Council who is almost guaranteed to be aligned with Nemesis and the Outsiders.
* BigBadDuumvirate: He, Grevane, and the Corpsetaker are all fighting for the position of gaining the Darkhollow's power in ''Dead Beat'', but Cowl eventually outmaneuvers the rest of them and becomes the novel's FinalBoss.

* BigBadDuumvirate: She, Grevane, and Cowl are all fighting for the position of gaining the Darkhallow's power in ''Dead Beat'', but Cowl eventually outmaneuvers the rest of them and becomes the novel's FinalBoss.

* BigBadDuumvirate: He, the Corpsetaker, and Cowl are all fighting for the position of gaining the Darkhollow's power in ''Dead Beat'', but Cowl eventually outmaneuvers the rest of them and becomes the novel's FinalBoss.

* KarmicDeath: [[TyrannosaurusRex Sue]] eats him.

* AxeCrazy: Of all of the Kemmlerites, Corpsetaker is probably the most unbalanced and twisted. Mental magic does that, of course.

* BigBadDuumvirate: She, Grevane, and Cowl are all fighting for the position of gaining the Darkhollow's power in ''Dead Beat'', but Cowl eventually outmaneuvers the rest of them and becomes the novel's FinalBoss.

* FauxAffablyEvil: When they first meet, it only takes a few snarky remarks from Harry for the polite façade to fall from her borrowed face and her to reveal her true colors as an absolutely terrifying sociopath.

** Harry describes her as having a look of utter shock when he shoots her in the back of the head in ''Dead Beat'', having never expected that he'd be quicker on the draw than she was.
** Similarly, when she's possessing Molly, "her" eyes widen in horrified realization when she sees Mort [[HoistByHisOwnPetard sic her own horde of wraiths]] on her in ''Ghost Story''.
* PronounTrouble: Precisely what sex and gender the Corpsetaker originally had isn't made clear in ''Dead Beat'', not especially helped that her original body is long since dead ''and'' whether the concept of gender really applies to a necromancer who seems to exist purely as a body-hopping mind is ultimately up in the air. As of ''Ghost Story'', she appears to have originally been female and still idenmtifies as such.

* WhatBeautifulEyes: Harry stops to mention them after glimpsing at her "true" form as a spirit. Notably, they're the only aspect of her appearance mentioned as being attractive, with the rest of her being described as looking hideous.

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* BigBad: A big contender for this for the whole series, being a high-ranking member of the Black Council who is almost guaranteed to be aligned with Nemesis and the Outsiders.

* EvilCounterpart: Dedicated, a bit curmudgeonly, and uses dark power for what seem to be good-ish purposes. Yep, he's basically what would happen if Harry Dresden finally stopped listening to that pesky little thing called a conscience and went full black-hat. It's getting even more pronounced as of ''Zoo Day'', where he's strongly implied to have acquired one of the pups from Mouse's litter.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He has disdain for Kemmler, whom he calls a "madman". Though he does later suggest that he was one of his students - or at least was willing to pretend that he was working to fulfil Kemmler's legacy to the other Kemmlerites.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Breaks Dresden's binding over the Erlking, making him indirectly responsible for all of the deaths caused by the Wild Hunt in Chicago. He also caused the massive hexes over the city in preparation for the Darkhollow, and was almost the one to take in the Darkhollow itself (which would've caused the deaths of essentially ''everyone'' in Chicago at the time). All three times he shrugs off these horrific losses of life as just part of his job as a WellIntentionedExtremist.

* StrongAndSkilled: Dresden explicitly states that he's even stronger than Ebenezar - and this is ''after'' he knew about [[ColonyDrop Casaverde]] and everything else Ebenezar did as the Blackstaff - and he's demonstrated to have ''serious'' technical skill, discussed when he pulled the complex hex on Chicago to black it out in ''Dead Beat''. Bob also speculates that he might have known that Halloween was one of the very few times the Darkhollow could have actually worked.

* EvilCounterpart: Just as Cowl is one to Harry, she seems to be one for Molly: a younger, female apprentice who strays dangerously close to misusing her powers (but remember to add a mental "maybe" next to "Evil").

One of the disciples of mad necromancer Heinrich Kemmler, the Corpsetaker is a necromancer who specializes in mental magic, raising spectres, and using dark magic to allow him/her/it to jump between bodies. Violent, savage, and thoroughly insane, behind a veneer of affable friendliness. One of the members of the Kemmlerite gang that showed up in ''Dead Beat'' to initiate the Darkhallow. When Harry encounters the Corpsetaker, they have stolen the body of a college student named Alicia. Returns for another round in ''Ghost Story'' as, well, a ghost.

* BodySurf: Until ''Ghost Story'', fans weren't even sure if the Corpsetaker ''had'' a gender.
* BoomHeadshot: How Harry managed to kill her after she took over Luccio.

* CurbStompCushion: She's ultimately way too dangerous and deadly for Molly to defeat in their mental duel, but Harry Dresden's apprentice still gives as good as she can and lasts long enough before Mort is able to intervene and save the day.
* DraggedOffToHell: Her final fate as implied when the screams of the wraiths destroying her spiritual essence sound like a "the blaring howl of the horn of a southbound train".

* GrandTheftMe: Her main M.O., swapping souls with anyone with magical talent whenever it suits her. It even works on Warden Luccio, and her ghostly spirit has plans to do so even after her death. That said, she needs a lot of power to be able to do it from spirit form.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gets taken down with the wraiths she used on Mort. Mort is even the wielder of them.

* {{Necromancer}}: Her particular brand of the craft seems to focus on spirits and other "intangible" undead rather than physical zombies.

** Similarly, she looks ''terrified'' when she notices Mort [[HoistByHisOwnPetard sic her horde of wraiths]] on her in ''Ghost Story''.
* PronounTrouble: Precisely what gender the Corpsetaker originally had is not clear. Whether the concept of gender really applies to a necromancer who seems to exist purely as a body-hopping mind is up in the air. As of ''Ghost Story'', she appears to be female.

* VillainTeamUp: She works with the Fomor to regain a real body.

Evil Bob is the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dark side of Regular Bob]] that served Kemmeler for centuries just as Regular Bob serves Harry now. While technically not a member of the Kemmlerites, he made his first appearance in the same book as the rest of them, nearly killing Harry in the process. Harry, not wanting someone to gain access to that part of him again, ordered Bob to forget it completely. Naturally, this backfires as Bob, a creature ''made'' of living information, took that order as a command to remove that part of himself like a diseased limb. This led to it becoming TheDragon to the Corpsetaker's ghost in Ghost Story. Evil Bob is still out there, last seen locked in combat with his regular self in the Nevernever, and Bob decided to run the moment Harry was clear.

* {{Determinator}}: Tears ''bloody patches out of his skin'' to escape imprisonment.

-->''They killed him good. A couple of times. He'd come back after they'd killed him early in the nineteenth century, so they were real careful this time.''

* PuttingOnTheReich: Evil Bob worked for Kemmler for a while, and picked up an appreciation for SS gear, as is seen when ghost!Harry assaults his wards, which have taken on the shape of the beaches at Normandy.

* AffablyEvil: While not as friendly as Nicodemus or Marcone, Cowl is pretty respectful of Dresden.

* {{Determinator}}: Again, a ''car'' thrown at him, multiple death curses, or the Darkhallow destabilizing and literally exploding in his face will not stop this guy.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He, or someone dressed like him, shows up way back at Bianca's party in ''Grave Peril'', handing Ferrovax and Lea their presents. Nothing in that appearance indicated how important he'd become later on.
* EvilCounterpart: Dedicated, a bit curmudgeonly, and uses dark power for what seem to be good-ish purposes. Getting even more pronounced as of ''Zoo Day'', where he's strongly implied to have acquired [[spoiler: one of the pups from Mouse's litter]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He has disdain for Kemmler, whom he calls a "Madman". Though he does later suggest that he was one of his students - or at least was willing to pretend that he was working to fulfil Kemmler's legacy to the other Kemmlerites.

* StrongAndSkilled: Dresden explicitly states that he's even stronger than Ebenezar - and this is ''after'' he knew about [[ColonyDrop Casaverde]] and everything else Ebenezar did as the Blackstaff - and he's demonstrated to have ''serious'' technical skill, discussed when he pulled the complex hex on Chicago to black it out in ''Dead Beat''. Bob also speculates that he might have known that Halloween was one of the very few times the Darkhold could have actually worked.
* VillainRespect: Cowl is respectful of Dresden's abilities, both magical and deductive. He in fact notes that he believes Dresden really could have contained the Erlking the entire night. Something Harry himself doubted he'd actually be able to do (describing his chances as a spider's chance of entrapping a tiger).
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Why does he want to become a god in ''Dead Beat''? He thinks it's inevitable that ''someone'' will and considers himself the least possible evil (and when you look at [[GrandTheftMe Corpsetaker]] and [[AxeCrazy Grevane]], he probably has a point ...)
* WickedCultured: Prefers Goethe.

* PetTheDog: Using her necromancy to save a dying man's life. Harry is disturbed at the implications. Subverted when it's later revealed that the process was ''excrutiatingly'' painful for the "patient," and that he might have been permanently negatively affected by the process.

One of the disciples of mad necromancer Heinrich Kemmler, the Corpsetaker is a necromancer who specializes in mental magic, raising spectres, and using dark magic to allow him/her/it to jump between bodies. Violent, savage, and thoroughly insane, behind a veneer of affable friendliness. One of the members of the Kemmlerite gang that showed up in ''Dead Beat'' to initiate the Darkhallow. When Harry encounters the Corpsetaker, he/she/it has stolen the body of a college student named Alicia. Returns for another round in ''Ghost Story'' as, well, a ghost.

* BodySurf: Until ''Ghost Story'', fans weren't even sure if the Corpsetaker ''had'' a physical gender.
* BoomHeadshot: How Harry manages to kill her after she takes over Luccio.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Performed it on Mort in ''Ghost Story'' and her old body in ''Dead Beat''.
* DraggedOffToHell: Her final fate is implied as the screams of the wraiths destroying her spiritual essence sounds like a "southbound train".

* KarmicDeath: In ''Ghost Story,'' Mort destroys her with the same wraiths she had used to torture him.
* MindRape: One of the Corpsetaker's specialties is to violate the minds of her victims.

* WhatBeautifulEyes: Harry stops to mention them.

* Determinator: Tears ''bloody patches out of his skin'' to escape imprisonment.

* Determinator: Tears out [[bloody patches of his skin]] to escape imprisonment.