A taste for monsters
By: Matthew J. Kirby
Edition: First edition, October 2016.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780545817844
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Ghost stories; Disfigured persons; Serial murders; Phosphorus; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Physiological effect; Murder; Investigation; Ghosts; Serial murderers; Neurofibromatosis; History
Description: In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.