The Monstrumologist - The Monstrumologist

Brief Description: Include discussion guide (p. [447-450]). Brief Description: In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi. Brief Description: For use in schools and libraries only. In 1888, 12-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi. Publisher Marketing: 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. Review Citations:

ALA Audiobooks for YA 03/01/2010 pg. 31 (EAN 9781439152614, Open Ebook)

Contributor Bio:  Yancey, Rick Rick Yancey is the author of "The Monstrumologist", "The Curse of the Wendigo", "The Isle of Blood", and "The Final Descent". He is also the author of The Fifth Wave series. Rick lives with his wife Sandy and two sons in Gainesville, Florida. Visit him at RickYancey.com.