Name: The Resurrectionist
Rating: 3.56 (25 reviews)
ISBN: 9781594746161

E. B. Hudspeth

A famous doctor in 1870s Philadelphia traces his story from his youth as the son of a grave robber through his mysterious disappearance at the end of his life, marked by his investigation into an unconventional hypothesis about mythological beasts being the evolutionary ancestors of the human race.

The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

The Resurrectionist

This was one of the weirdest books I’ve ever read, but it was SO good!

Caroline Boone

Andy Bayliss

i read this quite awhile ago but it was very interesting, the sketches and illustrations were gorgeous and helped bring the world of Dr. Spencer Black to life.

Marissa Scudlo

Zoe Smolen

This book was ok. I would have rather it was just a novel than this awkward narration that sounded like a History Channel documentary. I thought it was kind of disjointed and I wanted more of a spooky plot line

Cherie Dykstra

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Lavinia 

Mirto

Jasper

Lia Silva

Naomi

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.

The Resurrectionist The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

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