The Monstrumologist
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4.5 • 81 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A monster-hunting doctor and his apprentice face off against a plague of monsters in the first book of a terrifying series. Publishers Weekly says “horror lovers will be rapt.”
These are the secrets I have kept. So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. In the short time he has lived with the doctor in nineteenth-century New England, Will has grown accustomed to his late-night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was eating her, Will’s world changes forever. The doctor has discovered a baby Anthropophagus—a headless monster that feeds through a mouth in its chest—and it signals a growing number of Anthropophagi. Will and the doctor must face the horror threatening to overtake and consume the world…before it is too late.
The Monstrumologist is the first stunning gothic adventure in a series that combines the terror of HP Lovecraft with the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this dark tale constructed as a journal by 12-year-old orphan Will Henry, Yancey (the Alfred Kropp series) presents the story of the boy's apprenticeship to an enigmatic 19th-century "monstrumologist," Doctor Pellinore Warthrop. Purportedly found in 2007 amid the personal effects of the recently deceased Will (at age 131), the memoir opens as a corpse is delivered to Warthrop by a grave-robber one night in 1888. What appears to be a horrific desecration of the body foreshadows a plague of headless, man-eating anthropophagi. Will, left in the doctor's care since his parents' death, is drawn into the effort to save his town and find out how the creatures reached America, and both Will and Warthrop are forced to confront their own family histories and obsessions. Yancey's elegant depiction of an America plagued with monsters, human and otherwise, spares no grisly detail (in describing feeding anthropophagi: "The head is the most coveted prize. The first to reach her seizes it and wrenches it from her neck... a steaming geyser shoots into the air and paints crimson their teeming alabaster bodies"). Horror lovers will be rapt. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
not just for YA
oh yes, it’s wonderfully gruesome and gory at times . I read this series years ago but that didn’t take away from enjoying it again. Rick Yancy is a superb storyteller and writer. He’s up there with King and Koontz, (maybe above them.) So turn down the lights, mute the phone and enjoy.
Lovecraftish......
This guy (Rick Yancey) is one helluva w Ritter, and I'm surprised he's been under my radar all this time. I had just finished The Fifth Wave, and was surprised to see that he had written other books, as I was under the impression that T5W w as his first novel-( whether or not its his first novel, it's going to make him very, very rich. I heard Hollywood has already come calling) anyway., after this one, I'm convinced, this guy has a long career ahead of him. I only hope he can find the time to finish this series once the fifth wave hits big- I am a fan
This book would make an awesome movie
I am a 38 yo woman and I enjoyed this book. It was suspenseful and unpredictable. It was dark, but very well crafted. I instantly fell in love with Will Henry wishing I could protect him from such a cruel existence. It would be great to see this book as a film as long as they stick to the story as written.