Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, which asks you to grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences.
This week’s teaser comes from The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey.
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?
My Teaser: “Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.”
Leave a comment with your teasers or a link to your Teaser Tuesday post in the comments below.
Eck. What a thing to say to a child! What monster?
mine: http://storytreasury.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/teaser-tuesday-replica/