The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey (The Monstrumologist #2)/ ★★★☆☆
Summary: When young Will Henry and his mentor, the Monstrumologist, are called on to save a man from the Canadian wilderness, they must come to terms that perhaps the man that they pull out isn’t the man who went in- if he is still a man at all.
This was his universe, and no doubt, if every particle of light had been sucked from out atmosphere he could have found his way through the utter blackness left behind.
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey (The Monstrumologist #1) / ★★★★★
Summary: Twelve year old Will Henry is the assistant of Dr. Warthrop, a Monstrumologist, or a studier of monsters. It’s the late 19th century and a horrifying discovery is made in their small New England town. Dr. Warthrop and Will Henry must undertake their most deadly case yet- that of the Anthropophagi, who thirst for human flesh and will tear them limb from limb to get it.
If the doctor had known what horrors awaited us not only at the cemetery that night, but in the days to come, would he still have insisted upon my company? Would he still have demanded that a mere child dive so deep into the well of human suffering and sacrifice- a literal sea of blood? And if the answer to that question is yes, then there are more terrifying monstrosities in the world than Anthropophagi.
Dracula by Bram Stoker / My rating: ★★★★☆
One sentence summary: Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to aid Count Dracula with the purchase of a house in London, mysterious puncture wounds appear on necks, and a fearless team forms to oppose him.
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
Lost: Purple Quill 