The Monstrumologist

The Monstrumologist (2009) is a young adult horror novel by Rick Yancey.  It received the 2010 Michael L. Printz Honor Award for excellence in young adult literature.  

Other novels in the Monstrumologist series: The Curse of the Wendigo (2010), The Isle of Blood (2011), The Final Descent (2013)

These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me.

So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphaned assistant to Dr. Pellinore Warthorpe, a man with a most unusual specialty: monstrumology, the study of monsters. In his time with the doctor, Will has met many a mysterious late-night visitor, and seen things he never imagined were real. But when a grave robber comes calling in the middle of the night with a gruesome find, he brings with him their most deadly case yet.

A gothic tour de force that explores the darkest heart of man and monster and asks the question: When does man become the very thing he hunts?