The novel mentions historians, scientists, and writers about whom readers probably know very little about. If so, how would readers go about proving the existence of monsters? Ask them if they think there is any possibility that any monsters could be real.
could monsters be real?” Ask readers to name monsters they know from books, movies, and television. In the preface prologue, the author writes: “The central question, the thing that woke me in the dead of night shivering in a cold sweat, the notion which haunted me as I fought to go back to sleep. This second book in The Monstrumologist series explores the thin, tenuous lines between myth and reality, love and hate, genius and madness. Warthrop and Will Henry must hunt down the ultimate predator, who, like the legendary vampire, is neither living nor dead, and whose hunger for human flesh is never satisfied. Although Warthrop considers the Wendigo fictitious, he relents and goes with his young assistant, Will Henry, to the Canadian wilderness to rescue Chanler from death and starvation, only to see Chanler exhibit/develop the characteristics/murderous hunger of the Wendigo. Pellinore Warthrop, specialist in monstrumology, the study of real-life monsters, is asked by his former fiancée to rescue her husband, John Chanler, from the Wendigo, a ghastly creature with an insatiable appetite for human flesh.
Still, we’ll count this one as a victory for fandom.The Monstrumologist 2: Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yanceyĭr. A similar instance happened in 2010 with the whitewashed cover of Jaclyn Dolamore‘s Magic Under Glass, as well as with a massive word-of-mouth book blogging campaign to boost the sales of Cindy Pon‘s Asian fantasy Silver Phoenix.īut as one fan reminded Twitter, “Now that S&S is pubbing the 4th book in #Monstrumologist series, all who clamored for it must buy it!” It’s a sad truth the publishing industry faces that not everyone who says they’ll buy a book actually goes out and does so–especially with the price of books and even e-books rising all the time. The success is the most recent in a long line of instances that denote the growing influence of fan-run book blogs on the publishing industry itself, such as 2009’s much-touted decision by Bloomsbury to change the whitewashed cover of Justine Larbalestier‘s novel Liar after the author shared her fight to change the cover with the blogosphere before the book was published.
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