Carver Hale[5] was a story about a London mobster possessed by a demon. It was written by Mike Carey with art by Mike Perkins (with some fill-in inking by Dylan Teague). It came about because then editor Andy Diggle was commissioning more horror stories[6] and Carey said he "was aiming to get some of the flavour of Hellblazer, but in a more in-your-face, action-oriented story."[7]