He had lit the jets along the hall of the upper floor, though but a single light burned on the main floor, in the kitchen at the rear of the old house where just the two of us lived, without so much as a maid to pick up after us: The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class. That little hat was all I had left from my life before coming to live with him, and so it was precious to me. I dressed in the dark and scampered down the ladder in my stocking feet, putting on the last of my garments, a soft felt hat a size too small for my twelve-year-old head. 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.”
A monster-hunting doctor and his apprentice face off against a plague of monsters in the first book of a terrifying series.
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