{{short description|2009 novel by Rick Yancey}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | name = The Monstrumologist | image = The Monstrumologist.jpg | caption = First edition cover | author = Rick Yancey | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = ''The Monstrumologist'' series | genre = [[Gothic horror]] | publisher = [[Simon & Schuster]] Children's Publishing | pub_date = September 22, 2009 | media_type = Print ([[hardcover]] and [[paperback]]), [[e-book]], [[audiobook]] | pages = 434 pp | isbn = 978-1-4169-8448-1 | oclc = 764442781 | dewey = | congress = PZ7.Y19197 Mon 2009 | preceded_by = | followed_by = [[The Curse of the Wendigo]] }} '''''The Monstrumologist''''' is a [[young adult fiction|young adult]] [[horror novel]] written by American author [[Rick Yancey]]. It was published on September 22, 2009 by [[Simon & Schuster]] Children's Publishing. It is the first book in ''The Monstrumologist'' series, followed by ''[[The Curse of the Wendigo]]''. The story follows Will Henry, an orphaned assistant to Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, a man who specializes in monstrumology, the study of monsters.
The novel received the 2010 [[Michael L. Printz Honor Award]] for excellence in young adult literature.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books|url=http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/printzaward/previouswinners/winners|website=YALSA|date=15 March 2007 |accessdate=6 December 2017}}</ref>
==Reception== The review in ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' said, "Yancey's elegant depiction of an America plagued with monsters, human and otherwise, spares no grisly detail. ... Horror lovers will be rapt."<ref>{{cite journal |title = The Monstrumologist |journal = [[Publishers Weekly]] |volume =256 |issue =36 |page =48 |date= September 7, 2009}}</ref> The reviewer in the ''[[School Library Journal]]'' wrote "Though the pace sometimes falters beneath the weight of Will's verbose observations, the author folds surprising depth and twists into the plot and cast alike, crafts icky bits that can be regarded as comically over-the-top (or not), and all in all dishes up an escapade fully 'capable,' as Will puts it, 'of fulfilling our curious and baffling need for a marauding horror of malicious intent'".<ref>{{cite journal |first= John |last=Peters |title = The Monstrumologist |journal = [[School Library Journal]] |volume =55 |issue =11 |page =125 |date= November 2009}}</ref>
==Sequels== The monstrumologist had three subsequent books in the saga. These books are ''[[The Curse of the Wendigo]]'' published in 2010,<ref>{{cite web|title=Exclusive: Rick Yancey Talks The Monstrumologist, The Curse of the Wendigo, and More |date=December 2010 |url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/41214/exclusive-rick-yancey-talks-monstrumologist-curse-wendigo-and-more#axzz2ii8iA7Ft|publisher=Dread Central|accessdate=25 October 2013}}</ref> ''The Isle of Blood'' published in 2011 and ''[[The Final Descent]]'' in 2013.
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