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While attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris, the vampire, could exist, Dr. Warthrop is asked by his former fiance - to rescue her husband from the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh, which has snatched him in the Canadian wilderness. Although Warthrop... read more
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Characters edit
- Will Henry: The protagonist, an orphan whose parents died in a fire. His father was once Warthrop's assistant, and now Will has taken his place as monstrumologist apprentice.
- Dr. Pellinore Warthrop: Add a description of this character.
- Dr. John Chanler
- Muriel Chanler
- Dr. Abram von Helrung
- Jonathan Hawk
- Jack Fiddler
- Augustin Skala
- Lillian "Lilly" Trumbul Bates
- Adolphus Ainsworth: A very old man who is the curator of the Monstrumarium proper.
- Pierre Larose
Quotes edit
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“If he had stated that his brain were made of swiss cheese, I would not have been more flabbergasted.”
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“Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it. (page 185)”
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“Our past dictates our perceptions....our perceptions are shaped by our individual experience, thus calling into question the whole notion of objective truth. We cannot trust our perceptions....The other difficulty with our perceptions...is our tendency to project them upon others. This room has unpleasant connotations for me and so I attribute the feeling to the room itself and am puzzled when you do not feel the same way....My perception may be entirely true that you have been indispensable to me. It does not follow, however, that you share the same perception when it comes to me. (pages 185-187)”
Dr. Pellinore Warthrop
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In the name of all that’s holy, tell me why God felt the need to make a hell. It seems so redundant.
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I foresee the day when all sentiment is reduced to a chemical equation in our brains—hope, faith, even love—their exact locations pinned down and mapped out, so we may point to it and say, ‘Here, in this region of our cerebral cortex, lies the soul.’”
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“MEN ARE PROBABLY NEARER THE ESSENTIAL TRUTH IN THEIR SUPERSTITIONS THAN IN THEIR SCIENCE.” —HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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“I am saying a larger brain comes with a price. Our better instincts are oft put down by our reason.”
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Men might be the stronger sex, but women are made of much sterner stuff!
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“Logic sometimes breeds monsters.” —Henri Poincaré
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“The future belongs to science. The fate of our species will be determined by the likes of Edison and Tesla, not Wordsworth or Whitman. The poets will lie upon the shores of Babylon and weep, poisoned by the fruit that grows from the ground where the Muses’ corpses rot. The poets’ voices will be drowned out by the gears of progress.
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our perceptions are shaped by our individual experience, thus calling into question the whole notion of objective truth.
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“I will pass into oblivion, to the vile dust from whence I sprung, unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
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Organizations edit
- The Society: Short for the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Monstrumology, it is the organization to which monstrumologists belong.
- Zeno Club: An unadvertised, exclusive club (membership is limited to exactly 100 members) in New York to which Dr. Warthrop is a member. The identities of its members is a closely guarded secret and no man ever publicly acknowledges his membership in the Club or its existence.
First Sentence edit
The reader was a retired middle school English teacher whose mother had come to live at the facility in 2001.
Table of Contents edit
I. Prologue--September 2009: Cuttings
II. Folio IV: Desolation
a. One: "What Am I Will Henry?"
b. Two: "There Is Nothing I Can Do For You."
c. Three: "It is a Patient Hunter"
d. Four: "He Was My Best Friend and How I Hated Him!"
e. Five: "You Will Live to Regret It"
f. Six: "A Different Species Altogether"
g. Seven: "There is Nothing to Fear"
h. Eight: "I Have Come for My Friend"
i. Nine: "I shall Carry Him"
j. Ten: "It Can Break A Man's Mind in Half"
k. Eleven: "In My Rising, I Fell"
l. Twelve: "The One useful Thing You Could Do"
m. Thirteen: "The Real Danger"
III. Folio V: Abundance
a. Fourteen: "The One Who Brought You Out"
b. Fifteen: "We Should Be Honest with Each Other"
c. Sixteen: "I Am Pleased to Find You Here"
d. Seventeen: "Ich Habe Dich Auch Vermisst"
e. Eighteen: "What Have I to Live For"
f. Nineteen: "Whom Did I Betray?"
IV. Folio VI: Reparation
a. Twenty: "A Beautiful Day"
b. Twenty-One: "I Do Not Think We Will Find Him"
b. Twenty-Two: "The Story of a Lifetime"
c. Twenty-Three: "I Should Have Known"
d. Twenty-Four: "He Wanted Me to See"
e. Twenty-Five: "His Only Hope"
f. Twenty-Six: "He is Not So Different"
g. Twenty-Seven: "The Water"
h. Twenty-Eight: "I Have Found Him"
i. Twenty-Nine: "The Gift Was Mine to Give"
V. Epilogue: November 2009
Glossary edit
- Wendigo: Lepto lurconis
- Encyclopedia Bestia: The Society's exhaustive compendium of all malevolent creatures great and small, to which Dr. Warthrop is a contributing member.
- The Society: The group monstrumologists belong to.
- Monstrumarium: "The House of Monsters." "The Beastie Bin." The holy of holies of natural history's abhorrent darker side where thousands of specimens collected from the four corners of the globe are held.
- NWMP: North-West Mounted Police, the precursor to the Royal Canadian Mounties.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 3 in The Monstrumologist. (standard series)
Preceded by The Monstrumologist, and followed by The Isle of Blood.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Richard Yancey (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 12, 2010
ISBN: 978-1416984504
Page Count: 448
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 12, 2010
ISBN: 978-1416984504
Page Count: 448
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Young AdultsThere is some cursing, as well as scenes of a violent and graphic nature.
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