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From Booklist With a roaring sense of adventure and enough viscera to gag the hardiest of gore hounds, Yanceys series starter might just be the best horror novel of the year. Will Henry is the 12-year-old apprentice to Pellinore Warthrop, a brilliant and self-absorbed monstrumologist--a scientist who studies (and when necessary, kills) monsters in late-1800s New England. The newest threat is the Anthropophagi, a pack of headless, shark-toothed bipeds, one of whoms corpse is delivered to Warthrops lab courtesy of a grave robber. As the action moves from the dissecting table to the cemetery to an asylum to underground catacombs, Yancey keeps the shocks frequent and shrouded in a splattery miasma of blood, bone, pus, and maggots. The industrial-era setting is populated with leering, Dickensian characters, most notably the loathsome monster hunter hired by Warthrop to enact the highly effective Maori Protocol method of slaughter. Yanceys prose is stentorian and wordy, but it weaves a world that possesses a Lovecraftian logic and hints at its own deeply satisfying mythos. Most effective of all, however, is the weirdly tender relationship between the quiet, respectful boy and his strict

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Author

YANCEY, Rick

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781481425445

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S, History

Rating

3.89 / 5 (12,826 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14