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The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

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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 arena’s most celebrated mythological beasts—mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs—were in truth the evolutionary ancestors of humankind?
 
The Resurrectionist offers two peculiar books in one. The primary 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 on the end of his life. The second one 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 wish to have only take a look at these images to appreciate they’re the work of a madman. The Resurrectionist tells his story.

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