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."