The Monstrumologist Analysis

New Jerusalem, 1888Will Henry and Dr. Warthrop live in the sleepy town of New Jerusalem, which is apparently somewhere in New England. Now, if you were to Google New Jerusalem you wouldn't get a pl...

The Monstrumologist is set up in such a way that we are reading the journals of Will Henry, written much later in life (like a memoir) and then transcribed by an anonymous author. Outside of the pr...

Gothic Fiction When you picture The Monstrumologist in your head, does it evoke a sense of dark, looming catastrophe, and feelings of dread? Do you get little shivers down your back just thinking a...

MacabreFor those of you who don't speak French, macabre isn't what a magician yells as he reveals a trick. Macabre, as defined by the illustrious Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is an adjective used to...

DescriptiveOne of the most important parts of writing a story that's truly scary is setting the scene. In order to induce chills and make people furtively check their sixes, you have to make them f...

The title of the book is pretty straightforward: The Monstrumologist refers to Dr. Warthrop. Since the book is ostensibly a transcription of Will Henry's journals that he wrote to help exorcise his...

mon•strum•ol•o•gy n.1: the study of life forms generally malevolent to humans and not recognized by science as actual organisms, specifically those considered products of myth and folklore2...

The ending of The Monstrumologist is gloriously open to interpretation. The author who has published Will Henry's journals (a.k.a. not Yancey) has gone out to his grave—ostensibly to pay his resp...

The Monstrumologist isn't hard to read because of its style, language, or themes. Nope. This book is a bit of a hike because it's really—and we mean really—scary. It's Night of the Living Dead...

Sure, I'll Read This Old Guy's DiaryThe exposition begins when the unnamed author agrees to read some senile guy's journals as a favor to the director of a retirement home. In this way we are tang...

Authors are people, too, and in the case of Rick Yancey, that means he's an American Idol enthusiast with some strange eating habits.   (Source.) Remember that parasite Dr. Kearns mention...

Sex doesn't really play much of a role in The Monstrumologist. Seeing as the only women characters are either dead, dying, or Mrs. Bratton, there isn't much opportunity for romance.

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