Full name: The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

Author: E. B. Hudspeth Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Horror, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781594746161 1594746168

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. Similar books: Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand Black Light by Elizabeth Hand Zod Wallop by William Browning Spencer Night Relics by James P. Blaylock Clash of the Titans by Alan Dean Foster Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card Dark Sister by Graham Joyce Shade of the Tree by Piers Anthony The Hike by Drew Magary The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce Dreamside by Graham Joyce A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison Galilee by Clive Barker The Child Thief by Brom Lost Boy by Christina Henry Krampus by Brom Lost Gods by Brom Dweller by Jeff Strand