RESURRECTIONIST (QUIRK BOOKS)

This macabre tale?part dark fantasy, part Gray’s Anatomy?tells the chilling story of a man driven mad by his search for the truth, with hypnotic and horrifying images. Dr. Spencer Black, the son of a "resurrectionist" (aka grave robber), studied at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine in the late 1870s. There he developed an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world's most celebrated mythological beasts - mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs - were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? This book offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Black, from his humble beginnings to the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is his magnum opus: "The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray's Anatomy" for mythological beasts - dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus - all rendered in meticulously detailed black-and-white anatomical illustrations.