Disturbingly lovely . . .The Resurrectionistis itself a cabinet of curiosities, stitching history and mythology and sideshow into an altogether different creature. Deliciously macabre and beautifully grotesque.Erin Morgenstern, author ofThe Night Circus

This macabre talepart dark fantasy, partGrays 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 Resurrectionistoffers 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,aGrays Anatomyfor mythological beasts, all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations.

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