Philadelphia The late 1870s A city of cobblestone sidewalks & horse-drawn carriages Home to the famous anatomist & surgeon Dr Spencer Black The son of a resurrectionist (aka grave robber) Dr Black studied at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine where he develops an unconventional hypothesis What if the world's most celebrated mythological beasts
- mermaids minotaurs & 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 his humble beginnings to 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 black-&-white anatomical illustrations You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman The Resurrectionist tells his story