Warthrop try to prevent more deaths and unravel the mystery of how the Anthropophagus, for so the monster is called, came to be in a New England town called New Jerusalem. And so begins a race against time as Will Henry and Dr. But this species of monster shouldn’t be in this location at all. Headless, with eyes in his shoulders and a maw in his belly full of teeth like a shark’s, the monster is dead too. After removing the coverings, Will is horrified to see the body of a young girl entwined with a monster who has to have come straight from the bowels of hell. One dark and eerie night, a grave robber brings a delivery to Dr. What is a monstrumologist, you ask? Why, it’s exactly what it sounds like–it’s someone who studies monsters. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.Twelve-year-old Will Henry finds himself in the unenviable position of assistant to a monstrumologist. With the rarest of devices, believable horror, this monster story makes one ask again if monsters are real.
This book is one of the finest of its genre, referring both to its YA status and horror. In fact, her profession is only mentioned in passing, as Kearns' explanation for his actions- "She is only a woman of the streets." There is little sexual content the only real sexual content is the prostitute that Kearns, Cory, or the Ripper, whichever guise he goes under at the moment, uses as bait for the Anthropophagi. This book is not for those without a strong stomach! No expense is spared in describing the feasts of the headless Anthropophagi, but it seems to me that this is the only vice, violence. A friend of mine, of that age, loved this book, was able to understand it, and was not fazed by the violence- but I also wouldn't recommend this to some of my more squeamish adult friends. The first in what is at least a trilogy, "The Monstrumologist" creates believable fear. Though not a book for those with a small vocabulary (or no dictionary), for the experienced reader, this is a must-read horror story. The thing that I liked best about this book was that it had violence- but well-explained violence.
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