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The Gruselmeister's Apprentice
Everyone knows monsters aren't real. Alby Swift disagrees. Well, he would. He makes them.
The City, 1935. Behind the grand oak doors of the Hunt Club, puffing Hunters in safari suits spin tall tales of monster hunts and daring escapes. Nightly boasts of courage in The Liar's Roost, the Club's legendary brag-room, are applauded and rewarded. The mighty Lord Cyrus Ramsgard presides over the most distinguished gathering of heroes since Hercules, Luke Skywalker and James Bond decided to share a taxi one evening.
But their amazing conquests aren’t quite real—until now.
Fifteen-year-old Alby 'Stinger' Swift spends his days learning to craft Gruesomes—elaborate taxidermy monsters built from odds and ends—to help the club’s wealthy frauds reenact their so-called adventures. One day he'll be a Gruselmeister if he can just get his stitches straight. It’s just a job..
...until a Gruesome starts hunting back.
As club members turn up gruesomely dead, Stinger stumbles into something more hideous than anything bragged about in The Liar’s Roost. If Stinger wants to survive the week, he’ll need more than quick hands and sharp wit—because this time, the hunt is real.
Someone opened the cages and the delighted Hunters are in for the most fun they've had since, well, ever!
Clutching the journal of his missing father, Stinger Swift will need to delve into the dark places of the Club to bring an awful truth to the light. And he may not like what he finds. What is the terrible secret of the walking creatures, and could his own father be somehow involved?
With rampaging monsters, trigger-happy buffoons and one unfortunate turkey, The Gruselmeister's Apprentice is the most fun you'll have since Sir Humphrey presented his Seven-Horned Weasel-Boar. And I think we all remember how that one tuned out!
Tally ho!
The City, 1935. Behind the grand oak doors of the Hunt Club, puffing Hunters in safari suits spin tall tales of monster hunts and daring escapes. Nightly boasts of courage in The Liar's Roost, the Club's legendary brag-room, are applauded and rewarded. The mighty Lord Cyrus Ramsgard presides over the most distinguished gathering of heroes since Hercules, Luke Skywalker and James Bond decided to share a taxi one evening.
But their amazing conquests aren’t quite real—until now.
Fifteen-year-old Alby 'Stinger' Swift spends his days learning to craft Gruesomes—elaborate taxidermy monsters built from odds and ends—to help the club’s wealthy frauds reenact their so-called adventures. One day he'll be a Gruselmeister if he can just get his stitches straight. It’s just a job..
...until a Gruesome starts hunting back.
As club members turn up gruesomely dead, Stinger stumbles into something more hideous than anything bragged about in The Liar’s Roost. If Stinger wants to survive the week, he’ll need more than quick hands and sharp wit—because this time, the hunt is real.
Someone opened the cages and the delighted Hunters are in for the most fun they've had since, well, ever!
Clutching the journal of his missing father, Stinger Swift will need to delve into the dark places of the Club to bring an awful truth to the light. And he may not like what he finds. What is the terrible secret of the walking creatures, and could his own father be somehow involved?
With rampaging monsters, trigger-happy buffoons and one unfortunate turkey, The Gruselmeister's Apprentice is the most fun you'll have since Sir Humphrey presented his Seven-Horned Weasel-Boar. And I think we all remember how that one tuned out!
Tally ho!
409 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 16, 2025
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