The Monstrumologist
- Rick Yancey
- Fiction
- Horror, Gothic
- September 22, 2009
These are the secrets that I have kept. This is the trust that I never betrayed. But now he is dead and has been for over forty years, the one who gave me the trust of him, the one who kept these secrets. The one who saved me. . . and the one who cursed me.
Thus begins the diary of Will Henry, the orphan assistant of Dr. Pellinore Warthorpe, a man with a most unusual specialty: monstrumology, the study of monsters. In his time with the doctor, Will has met many mysterious late-night visitors and seen things he never imagined were real. But when a grave robber comes calling in the middle of the night with a gruesome find, he brings with him the deadliest case of him yet. A gothic tour de force that explores the darkest hearts of man and monster and asks the question: When does a man become the very thing he hunts?