num_pages: 424
description: While attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris the vampire could exist Dr. Warthrop is asked by his former fianc to rescue her husband from the Wendigo a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh and which has snatched him in the Canadian wilderness. Although Warthrop also considers the Wendigo to be fictitious he relents and rescues her husband from death and starvation and then sees the man transform into a Wendigo.Can the doctor and Will Henry hunt down the ultimate predator who like the legendary vampire is neither living nor dead whose hunger for human flesh is never satisfied?This second book in The Monstrumologist series explores the line between myth and reality love and hate genius and madness.
language: English
title: The Curse of the Wendigo
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers