“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.” QuoteRick YanceyThe Monstrumologist Book:The Monstrumologist Source: The Monstrumologist
“The doctor,' Erasmus echoed. 'They call him that—but what exactly is he a doctor of?' The grotesque, I might have answered. The bizarre. The unspeakable. Instead I gave him the same answer the doctor had given me when I'd asked him not long after my arrival at the house on Harrington Lane. 'Philosophy,' I said with little conviction.” QuoteRick YanceyThe Monstrumologist Book:The Monstrumologist Source: The Monstrumologist
“The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class.” QuoteRick YanceyThe Monstrumologist Book:The Monstrumologist Source: The Monstrumologist
“I had been interested in the local legends and tall tales regarding the site, and the director had been kind enough to introduce me to several residents who'd grown up in the area and who knew the stories of this mythical "gateway to hell," now a state park, presumably because the devil had departed, making way for field-trippers and hikers.” Rick YanceyThe Monstrumologist Author:Rick Yancey