seventeen `` ich habe dich auch vermisst `` in those days the society for the advancement of the science of monstrumology-or `` the society , '' as it was informally known-was headquartered on the corner of twenty-second and broadway , in an imposing structure designed in the neo-gothic tradition , with narrow arched windows and doorways , soaring turrets , and snarling gargoyles hunkered at the cornices .