Words could be organized in such categories as anatomical, biological, literary, mythological, philosophical, and technical. Have readers work in small groups and organize the words into categories of their own choosing based on the definitions of the words.

Not knowing the meaning of some of the words will not impede readers’ enjoyment or understanding of the story, but learning the meanings of the words will provide a valuable enrichment experience. The author uses a great deal of sophisticated vocabulary in the novel. Use online sources or reference books to research background information on the following terms: bacchanal, Charon, Dionysian, Gaia, Minos's labyrinth, Narcissus, siren, Sibyl, and Sisyphus. There are multiple references to Greek and Roman mythology in the story. Use online sources or reference books to research background information on the following people: Dante Alighieri, Algernon Blackwood, Thomas Byrnes, Cicero, Thomas Edison, Gustave Eiffel, Sir Henry Irving, Ozymandias, Louis Pasteur, John Pemberton, Henri Poincaré, Jacob Riis, Sir Walter Scott, Nikola Tesla, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Jules Verne, Walt Whitman, and William Wordsworth. The novel mentions historians, scientists, and writers about whom readers probably know very little about.

If so, how would readers go about proving the existence of monsters? Ask them if they think there is any possibility that any monsters could be real.

could monsters be real?” Ask readers to name monsters they know from books, movies, and television. In the preface prologue, the author writes: “The central question, the thing that woke me in the dead of night shivering in a cold sweat, the notion which haunted me as I fought to go back to sleep. This second book in The Monstrumologist series explores the thin, tenuous lines between myth and reality, love and hate, genius and madness. Warthrop and Will Henry must hunt down the ultimate predator, who, like the legendary vampire, is neither living nor dead, and whose hunger for human flesh is never satisfied. Although Warthrop considers the Wendigo fictitious, he relents and goes with his young assistant, Will Henry, to the Canadian wilderness to rescue Chanler from death and starvation, only to see Chanler exhibit/develop the characteristics/murderous hunger of the Wendigo. Pellinore Warthrop, specialist in monstrumology, the study of real-life monsters, is asked by his former fiancée to rescue her husband, John Chanler, from the Wendigo, a ghastly creature with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. The Monstrumologist 2: Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yanceyĭr.

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