" The doctor,' Erasmus echoed. 'They call him that—but what exactly is he a doctor of?'
The grotesque, I might have answered. The bizarre. The unspeakable. Instead I gave him the same answer the doctor had given me when I'd asked him not long after my arrival at the house on Harrington Lane. 'Philosophy,' I said with little conviction. "

― Rick Yancey , The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)