The Resurrectionist av E. B. Hudspeth

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<b>“Disturbingly lovely . . . <i>The Resurrectionist </i>is 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 <i>The Night Circus</i><br></b><br><b>This macabre tale—part dark fantasy, part <i>Gray’s Anatomy</i>—tells the chilling story of a man driven mad by his search for the truth, with hypnotic and horrifying images.</b><br><br>Philadelphia, 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 wo