He withdrew from my little alcove, taking the light with him. Now get dressed and meet me at the back door. “Get up! Get up, Will Henry, and be quick about it!” he said urgently. I can’t recall what I had for breakfast this morning, but I remember with nightmarish clarity that spring night in 1888 when he roused me roughly from my slumber, his hair unkempt, eyes wide and shining in the lamplight, the excited glow upon his finely chiseled features, one with which I had, unfortunately, become intimately acquainted. This is the trust I never betrayed.īut he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. 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. Will and the doctor must face the horror threatening to overtake and consume the world…before it is too late. 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. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was eating her, Will’s world changes forever. 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. So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting.

Publishers Weekly says “horror lovers will be rapt.” 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.A monster-hunting doctor and his apprentice face off against a plague of monsters in the first book of a terrifying series. Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatenning to overtake and consume our world before it is too late. 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. In the short time he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown accustomed to his late night callers and dangerous business. 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.

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