The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black Contributor(s): Hudspeth, E. B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594746168 ISBN-13: 9781594746161 Publisher: Quirk Books OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Dark Fantasy - Fiction | Fantasy - Dragons & Mythical Creatures - Fiction | Science Fiction - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2012934523 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 7.9" W x 10.6" (1.80 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Locality - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An extraordinary biography. A gallery of astonishing work. The legacy of a madman. 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. |