The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black / Hudspeth, E. B.

Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia s esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world s most celebrated mythological beasts mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind?

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 Black s magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray s Anatomy for mythological beasts dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus 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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