THE RESURRECTIONIST : THE LOST WORK OF DR SPENCER BLACK PB – E. B. HUDSPETH

Philadelphia. The late 1870s. A city of cobblestone sidewalks and horse-drawn carriages. Home to the famous anatomist and surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a resurrectionist (aka grave robber), Dr. Black studied 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 his humble beginnings to 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 black-and-white anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. The Resurrectionist tells his story.