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Philadelphia. The late 1870s. Home to the famous anatomist and surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a "resurrectionist" (aka grave robber), Dr. Black develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world's most celebrated mythological beasts--mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs--were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? Book Synopsis. Discover a nineteenth-century Philadelphia surgeon's lost codex and his macabre quest to prove a controversial hypothesis by any means necessary in this dark fantasy book. Part stunning coffee table art book, part fictional biography, this gaslamp bestiary features grotesquely detailed anatomical illustrations and a chilling horror novella. "Disturbingly lovely . . . a cabinet of curiosities, stitching history and mythology and sideshow into an altogether different creature."--Erin Morgenstern, author of. The Night Circus. The Resurrectionist. offers two extraordinary books in one. The first part is a chilling fictional biography of Dr. Spence