{"product_id":"resurrectionist-hardcover","title":"Resurrectionist (Hardcover)","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Hudspeth, E B","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337227137298,"sku":"9781594746161","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/21910163482755_0a939ab5-4948-403d-9f78-c5e3ff58b450.jpg?v=1780436655","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/resurrectionist-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}