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"This gothic thriller will appeal to kids who like scary with high brow Dickensian writing...Yancey builds the action towards the climactic cemetary scene while also deftly handling the changing interpersonal dynamic between the doctor and Will. REaders who enjoyed Yancey's Alfred Kropp series...won't want to miss this one. Recommended."--Library Media Connection
"Yancey takes...gore and violence...to thrilling new levels in this sophisticated tale."--School Library Journal
"This story is gothic horror at its finest and most disturbing. A cross between Mary Shelley and Stephen King, the tale will force readers to stay up late to finish and then remain awake, afraid to shut off the lights...The richness of the language, the strain of wry humor, and the perfectly drawn characters make it a marvelous read...This book is perfect for readers who want their nightmares in a literary package."--VOYA
"This has all the elements of the best Victorian mystery and horror...Readers who like their horror truly horrible and yet archly distant and peppered with ecstatic Victorian-scented comments on the woes of the human condition will jump right in and not emerge until the last relieved gasp."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Yancey takes...gore and violence...to thrilling new levels in this sophisticated tale."--School Library Journal
"This story is gothic horror at its finest and most disturbing. A cross between Mary Shelley and Stephen King, the tale will force readers to stay up late to finish and then remain awake, afraid to shut off the lights...The richness of the language, the strain of wry humor, and the perfectly drawn characters make it a marvelous read...This book is perfect for readers who want their nightmares in a literary package."--VOYA
"This has all the elements of the best Victorian mystery and horror...Readers who like their horror truly horrible and yet archly distant and peppered with ecstatic Victorian-scented comments on the woes of the human condition will jump right in and not emerge until the last relieved gasp."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me.
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, 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 is about to change 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. Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatenning to overtake and consume our world before it is too late.
The Monstrumologist is the first stunning gothic adventure in a series that combines the spirit of HP Lovecraft with the storytelling ability of Rick Riorden.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A gruesome gorefest!,
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This review is from: The Monstrumologist (Hardcover)
"The Monstrumologist" is many, many things. A blood-and-guts, gruesome gorefest; a Victorian fright night with superb, colourful characters on both sides of the good/evil dichotomy sketched with a most entertaining, detailed Dickensian completeness; an imaginative adventure story; and a terrifying gothic horror tale with some wonderfully atmospheric narrative description sequences .Pellinore Warthrop is a monstrumologist - a practitioner of the little known field of arcane scientific endeavour that finds, studies and categorizes monsters but, if necessary, also hunts them down and kills them. His ward and apprentice, 12 year old Will Henry narrates the tale of a marauding band of Anthropophagi, a particularly fierce group of misshapen, bloodthirsty, man-eating hominids that have somehow managed to migrate from their native Africa to a cemetery in late 19th century New England. The story vaults immediately into a suitably horrific mood and begins down, dirty and gruesome when the corpse of the first monster is brought to Warthrop's lab by a resurrectionist who just wasn't quite certain what to make of his night's booty. Depending on your point of view and love of the horror genre, some readers will label the characters, the plot, the atmosphere and the dialogue as melodramatic and overwritten. Others will appreciate it for its merits and label it as superbly gothic, deeply mysterious and Lovecraftian. The likes of Stephen King or Edgar Allan Poe could hardly have done better in the creation of nail-biting suspense. My only criticism is the labelling of Yancey's offering as "young adult". Consider this excerpt, which is by no means unrepresentative of the writing style in the remainder of the novel. This is supposed to represent the sympathetic thoughts of our twelve year old narrator concerning a fourteen year old friend who had also lost his parents: "My empathy toward his suffering was acute, for he and I were fellow sojourners in the forbidding kingdom wherein all roads led to that singular nullity of fathomless grief and immeasurable guilt. We were no strangers to that barren clime, that merciless landscape in which no oasis existed to slake our ravening thirst. What meritorious draft, what magical elixir offered by the art of men or gods had the power to relieve our agony?" Frankly, I can't imagine the 12 year old anywhere on this planet that would think like that. Nor can I imagine the young reader that would enjoy plowing through such thickly embellished Victorian prose. That said ... didn't hurt my readin' none! If you like your horror and you like it gruesome, you'll enjoy "The Monstrumologist". Paul Weiss
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
amazing!,
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This review is from: The Monstrumologist (Hardcover)
I was drawn in by the cover art for this book. It looked like it would about a coroner for monsters...I was right and wrong. The Dr. Pellinore Warthrop is not only a coroner, but a monster hunter!The book is in the young adulat section but I feel that no one under the age of fifteen should read this book. It scared me and I'm not easy to scare. I won't even let my sister read it because it is extreamly nightmarish. But I loved the book. It kept me reading on and on, I could not put it down! This is what I wrote on the author's facebook page: 'As an aspiring young author, I read. A lot. I have to say of all the books I've read yours is one of my few favoirtes!' If you like old, historical fiction novels and paranormal novels, this book if for you. Even if you don't, read it. You won't be dissapointed!
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By TeensReadToo "Eat. Drink. Read. Be Merrier." (All Over the US & Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Monstrumologist (Hardcover)
Young Will Henry is apprentice to Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, a doctor of a different kind of science.Dr. Warthrop, a monstrumologist, hunts and studies creatures that are the stuff of nightmares. He has spent his entire life documenting and dissecting an array of bizarre creatures, and now his knowledge will be put to the test. A nest of gruesome monsters, the Anthropophagi, is wreaking havoc on the sleepy town of New Jerusalem. These horrific beasts feed on human flesh and will stop at nothing to find and kill fresh victims. With the help of Will Henry, Dr. Warthrop must stop the Anthropophagi before the entire population of New Jerusalem is destroyed. Rick Yancy has created an exceptional horror/mystery/thriller/paranormal young adult novel. The storyline is extremely engaging - I was hooked at page one! I was very impressed with his use of vocabulary and dialogue. I will say that this novel is definitely not for the faint of heart. Some of his scenes are very graphic, and his imagery can be intense at times. This would be an excellent Halloween read! I am hoping for more Monstrumology stories to come! Reviewed by: LadyJay
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