Author: Rick Yancey

Cites

• Dante Alighieri (1)
  • IN: The Final Descent (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra via mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Christoph Martin Wieland (1)
  • IN: The Last Star (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, Germany
• Stephen Hawking (1)
  • IN: The 5th Wave (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: IF ALIENS EVER VISIT US, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.
    FROM: Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, (2010), TV Show, UK
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: The Infinite Sea (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have; for both are infinite.
    FROM: Romeo and Juliet, (1597), Play, UK
  • IN: The Monstrumologist (2009) Gothic Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth scapes i’ the imminent deadly breach… And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
    FROM: Othello, (1622), Play, UK
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Monstrumologist (2009) Gothic Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … another island, midway, live people of stature and ugly nature, which have no head and their eyes on the back and mouth, crooked as a horseshoe, in the midst of the breasts. On another island, there are many people without heads, and which has the eyes and head in the back.
    FROM: Wonders of the World, (1356), Book, NULL
• Herodotus (1)
  • IN: The Monstrumologist (2009) Gothic Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Androphagi [Anthropophagi] have the most savage manners of all. They neither acknowledge any rule of right nor observe any customary law… [They] have a language all their own, and alone of all these nations they are man-eaters.
    FROM: The Histories of Herodotus, (-440), Book, Greece
• Pliny the Elder (1)
  • IN: The Monstrumologist (2009) Gothic Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is said that the Blemmyae have no heads and that their mouth and eyes are put in their chests.
    FROM: Naturalis Historiae, (75), Book, Italy
• Richard Hakluyt (1)
  • IN: The Monstrumologist (2009) Gothic Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gaora is a river, on the banks of which are a people whose head grow beneath their shoulders. Their eyes on in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts.
    FROM: Hakluyt’s Voyages, (1598), Book, UK
• Sir Raleigh, Walter (1)
  • IN: The Monstrumologist (2009) Gothic Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To the west of Caroli are divers nations of Cannibals, and of those Ewaipanoma without heads.
    FROM: The Discovery of Guiana, (1848), Book, UK