The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
by:
Lee Hudspeth (author)
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...
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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: What if the world’s most celebrated mythological beasts—mermaids, minotau
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781594746246 (1594746249)
ASIN: B00987MQRQ
Publisher: Quirk Books
Pages no: 187
Edition language: English
Deliciously Creepy!Dr. Spencer Black spent his childhood grave robbing with his father to help supply the local med school with specimen to practice on. Naturally, he went on to medical school himself when he grew up. He became a great doctor who specialized in the mutated growth of human beings. So...
This kind of book has long been needed and I hope more mythical and folklore creatures get the same treatment.
I'm pretty unclear on the fiction to non-fiction ratio going on in this book (mythical creatures notwithstanding). However, having endured several semesters of the history of science and cranked out more than one term paper on curiosity cabinets, I can safely say that almost all of this could have b...
I think I see what's going on here. This is kind of like a book that reminds me of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, in the sense that it's trying to provide a strange tale of a strange person using strange pictures and strange storylines. Honestly there isn't enough present in the book t...
Interesting premise but I wish it had been better executed. The way it's written is as a journal of Dr. Black, there are sketches included. There's a feel that you're reading a non-fictional account. I wish the story had been more compelling. Like what led him down the path he went on. Final verd...
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