The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

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.

Author: E. B. Hudspeth
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 05/21/2013
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 10.60h x 7.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781594746161

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2013
Foreword 02/26/2013

About the Author
E. B. Hudspeth is an artist and author living in New Jersey. This is his first book.