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A taste for monsters / Matthew J. Kirby.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0545817846
- ISBN: 9780545817844
- Physical Description: 343 pages
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2016.
Content descriptions
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 25.99 |
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| Subject: | Merrick, Joseph Carey, 1862-1890 > Fiction. Jack, the Ripper > Fiction. Disfigured persons > Fiction. Neurofibromatosis > Patients > Fiction. Serial murders > England > London > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > England > London > Fiction. London (England) > History > 19th century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Ghost stories. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | YA Kirby | 31681020024006 | YADULT | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Disfigured by her dangerous work in a late 19th-century matchstick factory, Evelyn takes a job as a maid to kindhearted John Merrick, the Elephant Man, in London Hospital before the pair begin receiving nightly visits from the ghosts of Jack the Ripper's victims. By the Edgar Award-winning author ofIcefall . - Baker & Taylor
When the Jack the Ripper murders begin, Evelyn Fallow and Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, find themselves haunted by the ghosts of his victims and Evelyn is obsessed with learning the killer's identity. - Baker & Taylor
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 themselveshaunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity. - ScholasticThe mesmerizing story of a young woman in Victorian London, who, haunted by the ghosts of Jack the Ripper's victims, is set on a terrifying path to salvation.London 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory with nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in London Hospital. Evelyn wanted to be locked away from the world, like he is, shut away from the filth and dangers of the streets. But in Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, she finds a gentle kindred, who does not recoil from her, and who understands her pain. When the murders begin, however, Joseph and Evelyn are haunted nightly by the ghosts of the Ripper's dead, setting Evelyn on a path to facing her fears and uncovering humanity's worst nightmares, in which the real monsters are men.A terrifying and haunting tale from the Edgar and PEN Award-winning author of Icefall, Matthew J. Kirby.
- ScholasticThe mesmerizing story of a young woman in Victorian London, who, haunted by the ghosts of Jack the Ripper's victims, is set on a terrifying path to salvation.
