{"product_id":"the-resurrectionist-the-lost-work-of-dr-spencer-black-hardcover","title":"The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. B. Hudspeth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Disturbingly lovely . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Resurrectionist \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Night Circus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis macabre tale--part dark fantasy, part \u003ci\u003eGray's Anatomy\u003c\/i\u003e--tells the chilling story of a man driven mad by his search for the truth, with hypnotic and horrifying images.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhiladelphia, 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: that the mythological beasts of legend and lore--including mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs--were 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Resurrectionist \u003c\/i\u003eoffers 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 Black's magnum opus: \u003ci\u003eThe Codex Extinct Animalia, \u003c\/i\u003e a \u003ci\u003eGray's Anatomy \u003c\/i\u003efor mythological beasts, all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. B. Hudspeth \u003c\/b\u003eis an artist and author living in New Jersey. This is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 10.6 x 7.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51997962699053,"sku":"9781594746161","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/c1dkVnI5SHpGdHRrNmZmTE9ROURBQT09.webp?v=1776491273","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-resurrectionist-the-lost-work-of-dr-spencer-black-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}