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'Monstrumology, the science of the unthinkable'

If you take a mixture of H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, E.A. Poe, added a smackeral of Dickens to the mix with the original, imagination of Rick Yancey, there you have it: The Monstrumologist, a literary feast of horror.

'The Monstrumologist' by Rick Yancey, is a Victorian monster story unlike any I have ever read. Poor twelve year old William, an orphan, is the apprentice-assistant to The Monstumologist. His is a peculiar life, full of late night dissections, cemetary romps, visits to lunatic asylums, and bloody battles in the depths of the earth. You merely glimpse at his young playful side only once in this story - and the rest of the time is serious business as he is indispensible to the doctor.

The characters in the story come alive with depth, clarity, and vivid descriptions. I felt like I knew each person in the book and cared quite a bit for a few of them. One character that I really, really liked was Dr. Kearns,or J. Schmidt, an elusive, scary man, festive in an odd way, but what what an awesome character!

The monsters in this book are fierce, The Anthropophagi, are hungry beasts that set out to hunt and eat humans, and the Monstrumologist and his assistant are forced into a blood curdling adventure to stop them before they kill again. There are many twists and turns in the book that make it a page turner. This is a book that will make you want to stay up late and read, though thoughts of it as you try to sleep might make it difficult.

I truly hope there are scores of notebooks to be found written by William, because I want to follow along in this poor boy's life for a long, long time and read every word of his journey. In other words, I hope there will be a lot of books!

While reading this book, I would try and explain to my family of five the occurances of what happens therein, and they would look at me with their mouths open, agape in horror at what I was describing. It's a book you have to read, mere explanations will not do it justice. From me, it also calls for a second, slower reading, in hopes I didn't miss anything.

I also found, the same as when I was a child watching Frankenstein, or The Mummy, or other monster movies, I always felt sorry for the monster - I haven't changed. But the chase and the action are just as fun still today and I thoroughly enjoyed with the utmost of giddiness this superior novel of grisly horror.


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The Monstrumologist Rick Yancey Books Reviews

Rick Yancey is no stranger to the strange. As creator of the award winning Alfred Kropp series, he has more than dabbled in the fantastic and has spun many entertaining yarns for the YA reader. In the Monstrumologist, Mr. Yancey kicks off a new series set in 19th century United States featuring Monstrumologist Pellimore Warthrop and his young apprentice Will Henry. Once again aimed at the YA crowd, Yancey overshoots his target audience and makes a book that will be deemed a great read by discerning adults as well.
Yancey expertly tells the story of Will Henry through a series of journal entries detailing an infestation of monsters in the fictitious New England town of New Jerusalem. Orphaned by a father who also apprenticed to driven monstrumologist Dr. Warthrop, Will Henry has inherited his father’s line of work. It is not an ideal situation. Young Will is often left to his own devices by the fanatical doctor and seems little more than a slave to the doctor’s passions. But Yancey clearly portrays the doctor as an unwittingly bad parent, not a bad human being; he knows much about monsters but little about human interactions which makes him a tough boss and an even harder father figure.
Together this mismatched duo will face down a herd of monsters known as Anthropophagi. Make no mistake, monsters these be, with mouths like sharks with rows upon rows of teeth in the middle of their stomachs, eyes black as night in each shoulder blade, razor like claws ten inches long and legs that propel them to incredible speeds and leaping heights of thirty feet, these beasts eat one thing…man. How a herd of thirty remained undetected and in the same town as a man whose sole job it is to study such creatures is a mystery at the epicenter of the plot.
Broken into three folios each with about a half dozen chapters, Mr. Yancey does a wonderful job of propelling this fantastically gruesome tale to a very satisfying conclusion. A sure footed writer, Yancey is more than capable of juxtaposing the gruesome, the beautiful, the profane, and the profound in admirable ways. There are philosophical musings on mortality, about man versus nature, and about human abandonment that stand in stark counterpoint to the numerous vivisections, beheadings, and brain matter. And while the plot veers towards the serpentine as the pieces of the puzzle fall into place to explain the origins of the monsters, Yancey never loses the reader to careless plotting.
That is not to say that there is not a misstep or two in this first outing. As a one star reviewer noted the characters are a little cliché and at times one dimensional. You have your usual crazed monster hunters, bungling gentlemen constables, the mad scientist, and the orphaned apprentice. However, Yancey more than makes up for these common set pieces with the most fantastical of monsters that are at once foreign and familiar and whose ruthless pursuits are described in gore soaked detail that will appeal to the most jaded of horror fans.
There is much to like in this first outing. I cannot say it is a must read, but it is a solid story told with extraordinary skill. Definitely not for all audiences, but if you are at all curious I suspect you will find it worthy of the price and will be looking forward to the next installment.
'Monstrumology, the science of the unthinkable'

If you take a mixture of H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, E.A. Poe, added a smackeral of Dickens to the mix with the original, imagination of Rick Yancey, there you have it The Monstrumologist, a literary feast of horror.

'The Monstrumologist' by Rick Yancey, is a Victorian monster story unlike any I have ever read. Poor twelve year old William, an orphan, is the apprentice-assistant to The Monstumologist. His is a peculiar life, full of late night dissections, cemetary romps, visits to lunatic asylums, and bloody battles in the depths of the earth. You merely glimpse at his young playful side only once in this story - and the rest of the time is serious business as he is indispensible to the doctor.

The characters in the story come alive with depth, clarity, and vivid descriptions. I felt like I knew each person in the book and cared quite a bit for a few of them. One character that I really, really liked was Dr. Kearns,or J. Schmidt, an elusive, scary man, festive in an odd way, but what what an awesome character!

The monsters in this book are fierce, The Anthropophagi, are hungry beasts that set out to hunt and eat humans, and the Monstrumologist and his assistant are forced into a blood curdling adventure to stop them before they kill again. There are many twists and turns in the book that make it a page turner. This is a book that will make you want to stay up late and read, though thoughts of it as you try to sleep might make it difficult.

I truly hope there are scores of notebooks to be found written by William, because I want to follow along in this poor boy's life for a long, long time and read every word of his journey. In other words, I hope there will be a lot of books!

While reading this book, I would try and explain to my family of five the occurances of what happens therein, and they would look at me with their mouths open, agape in horror at what I was describing. It's a book you have to read, mere explanations will not do it justice. From me, it also calls for a second, slower reading, in hopes I didn't miss anything.

I also found, the same as when I was a child watching Frankenstein, or The Mummy, or other monster movies, I always felt sorry for the monster - I haven't changed. But the chase and the action are just as fun still today and I thoroughly enjoyed with the utmost of giddiness this superior novel of grisly horror.