Title: A taste for monsters
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.
Subjects: Ghost stories, Disfigured persons, Serial murders, Phosphorus, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Physiological effect, Murder, Investigation, Ghosts, Serial murderers, Neurofibromatosis, History, Children's fiction, Crime, fiction, London (england), fiction
Places: England, Great Britain, London, London (England)
People: Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), Jack the Ripper
Time periods: 19th century, Victoria, 1837-1901