E.B. Hudspeth
Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriagesâ€”and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphiaâ€™s esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the worldâ€™s most celebrated mythological beastsâ€”mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrsâ€”were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? , Â ,The Resurrectionist ,offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Blackâ€™s magnum opus: ,The Codex Extinct Animalia,, a ,Grayâ€™s Anatomy ,for mythological beastsâ€”dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberusâ€”all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. ,The Resurrectionist, tells his story.
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The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black