You are very welcome. Another recommendation is The Dead by David Gatward although I am not so sure you will like it. The MONSTRUMOLOGIST is very GROWN UP LANGUAGE-Y AND ALL OLD FASHIONED-LIKE, set in the olden days where everyone traveled by carriages whe

I shall have a look at Dead too - easy to have a flick through on Amazon and see if it suits what I like. By the sounds of it though, you have called exactly what I like with The Monstrumologist - I love old world style stories, there is something really Romantic and fantastical about books set in periods of antiquity - especially with horror. I often feel like things are scarier, more meaningful when they are set in an old world time zone - it feels more as though it could actually have happ...