The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“Disturbingly beautiful . . . The Resurrectionist is itself a cupboard of curiosities, stitching historical past and mythology and sideshow into an altogether totally different creature. Deliciously macabre and superbly grotesque.”—Erin Morgenstern, writer of The Night time Circus

This macabre story—half darkish fantasy, half Grey’s Anatomy—tells the chilling story of a person pushed mad by his seek for the reality, with hypnotic and horrifying photos.

Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A metropolis of gasoline lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages—and residential to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, younger Dr. Black research at Philadelphia’s esteemed Academy of Drugs, the place he develops an unconventional speculation: that the mythological beasts of legend and lore—together with mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs—had been the truth is humanity’s evolutionary ancestors. And past that, he wonders: what if there was a method for humanity to succeed in the fuller potential these ancestors implied?

The Resurrectionist provides two extraordinary books in a single. The primary half is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from his childhood spent exhuming corpses via his medical coaching, his travels with carnivals, his merciless and crazed experiments, and, lastly, his mysterious disappearance. The second half is Black’s magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Grey’s Anatomy for mythological beasts, all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations.

From the Writer

Writer ‏ : ‎ Quirk Books; Illustrated version (Could 21, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594746168
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594746161
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.81 x 0.77 x 10.77 inches