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Rick Yancey

Rick Yancey is the author of The Monstrumologist and The Curse of the Wendigo. He has also written the award-winning series Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, as well as several novels for adults including The Highly Effective Detective and A Burning in Homeland. His memoir, Confessions of a Tax Collector, was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five best books on taxes ever written. He earned a BA in English from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and worked as a field officer for the Internal Revenue Service before turning to writing full time in 2004. Rick lives in Gainesville, Florida with his wife Sandy and two sons. Visit him at... Read full bio

Rick Yancey's Books

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The Isle of Blood (Part of Monstrumologist, The) By: Rick Yancey
This edition: Hardcover, 560 pages
Publication date: September 13, 2011
Ages: above 14
When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" with his eager new assistant, Arkwright, he leaves Will Henry in New York. Finally, Will can enjoy something that always seemed out of reach: a normal life with...
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The Curse of the Wendigo
The Curse of the Wendigo (Part of Monstrumologist, The) By: Rick Yancey
This edition: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publication date: October 12, 2010
Ages: above 14
While attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris, the vampire, could exist, Dr. Warthrop is asked by his former fiancÉ to rescue her husband from the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human...
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The Monstrumologist (Part of Monstrumologist, The) By: Rick Yancey
This edition: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publication date: September 22, 2009
Ages: above 14
These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . ....
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