Resurrector, or anatomy of fantastic creatures: the lost work of Dr. Spencer Black

Philadelphia, the end of the 1870s. The city of gas lanterns, paved streets, horse crews - and the birthplace of the surgeon of Spencer Black"s surgeon. Studying at the prestigious Philadelphia Medical Academy, the young doctor Black, the son of the grave of the graves, developed an unusual hypothesis: what if the most famous mythical creatures - mermaids, minotaurs and satires are actually evolutionary ancestors of people?
"Resurrecter" are two amazing books in one. The first is the fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black: from childhood conducted after the exhumation of corpses, to training in medicine, traveling with carnivals and, finally, mysterious disappearance at the end. The second book is the main work of his life - the "Code of the extinct animals". This is a "anatomy of Gray" for mythical creatures - dragons, centaurs, pegasas, ceres - each of which is presented at carefully detailed anatomical illustrations. One look at these drawings is enough to understand: this is the creation of a madman. And the "Resurrecter" is his story