The monstrumologist [eBook - NC Digital Library] : The Monstrumologist Series, Book 1

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. Intro; Dedication; Prologue: June 2007; Folio I: Progeny; Chapter One: "A Singular Curiosity"; Chapter Two: "His Services Are Indispensable to Me"; Chapter Three: "It Seems I Must Reconsider My Original Hypothesis"; Chapter Four: "The Hour Grows Late"; Chapter Five: "I Am Quite Lonely at Times"; Chapter Six: "What of the Flies?"; Folio II: Residua; Chapter Seven: "You Have Failed Me"; Chapter Eight: "I Am a Scientist"; Chapter Nine: "There Is Something I Should Show You"; Chapter Ten: "The Best Man for the Job"; Folio III: Slaughter; Chapter Eleven: "We Have No Choice Now" Chapter Twelve: "The Devil's Manger"Chapter Thirteen: "You Bear His Burden"; Epilogue: May 2008; The Curse of the Wendigo; Copyright "In 1888, twelve-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"--Provided by publisher -- 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.