![]() ![]() ![]() On their return home, however, the Anthropophagi escaped, and killed nearly the entire crew. After several deaths, Warthrop visits a man in a sanitarium named Hezzekiah Varner, who claims to have carried several of the Anthropophagi over from their native country. Warthrop knows immediately this species is not native to America, and thus begins the hunt, not only for the deadly creatures, but for answers. ![]() At the opening of the novel, the duo is startled by the coming of a grave robber, who has found the remains of a monster, the Anthropophagi, a headless, human like creature with vast strength and murderous intent. He is aloof and evasive at times, but he is all that Will Henry has and Will does admire his work, although it frightens him. The doctor is a monstrumologist or one who studies, hunts, and kills monsters. Pellinore Warthrop, when his parents both perished in a fire. "The Monstrumologist" is the story of Will Henry, a 12-year-old boy who was taken in by his father's employer, Dr. Through it, Will discovers not only that monsters are real, but that sometimes, the human monster can be more dangerous than the creatures in the night. The book, set up as the journal of William Henry, follows Will's life as a monstrumologist assistant through one of Will's most harrowing adventures. ![]() "The Monstrumologist" by Rick Yancey is a horror novel with a coming of age background that makes for a wonderful young adult novel. ![]()
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