The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
Disturbingly lovely . . . The Resurrectionist is itself a cabinet of curiosities, stitching history and mythology and sideshow into an altogether different creature. Deliciously macabre and beautifully grotesque.Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night CircusThis macabre talepart dark fantasy, part Grays Anatomytells the chilling story of a man driven mad by his search for the truth, with hypnotic and horrifying images.Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriagesand home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphias esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: that the mythological beasts of legend and loreincluding mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrswere in fact humanity’s evolutionary ancestors. And beyond that, he wonders: what if there was a way for humanity to reach the fuller potential these ancestors implied?The Resurrectionist offers two extraordinary books in one. The first part is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from his childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, his cruel and crazed experiments, and, finally, his mysterious disappearance. The second part is Blacks magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Grays Anatomy for mythological beasts, all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations.
About Artists & Writers:
E. B. Hudspethis an artist and author living in New Jersey. This is his first book.