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* TheFreakshow: After being rejected by the scientific community, Black decides to take his creations on the road in the form of a travelling show dubbed “The Human Renaissance”. It goes [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity surprisingly well despite waves of revulsion, controversy and even mobs after his head]]...at least until one of his beasts gets loose and mauls a patron, forcing him to end the show.
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* TheFreakshow: After being rejected by the scientific community, Black decides to take his creations on the road in the form of a travelling show dubbed “The Human Renaissance”. It goes [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity surprisingly well despite waves of revulsion, controversy and even mobs after his head]]...head]][[invoked]]...at least until one of his beasts gets loose and mauls a patron, forcing him to end the show.
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* AllMythsAreTrue: Spencer Black believed it.
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* AllMythsAreTrue: Spencer Black believed it.it at least.
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* FaunsAndSatyrs: One of the subjects Dr. Black studies. One chapter is dedicated to the cadaver a hoofed man Dr. Black finds in a sideshow.
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* FaunsAndSatyrs: One of the subjects Dr. Black studies. One chapter is dedicated to the cadaver of a hoofed man Dr. Black finds in a sideshow.sideshow that sparks his theories and obsession.
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* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Harpies do play a sizable role as one of Black's interest, in particular his throry of human mutations being GeneticMemory. He in particular grafts wings on a young girl born without limbs to create such. Meanwhile, not only is a harpy skeleton on the cover, but its the subject of the last chapter.
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* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: One chapter in the Codex Extinct Animalia is about them, with the book and Dr. Black lamenting how its mismatched elements would appear to lead to many disadvantages.
* RiddlingSphinx: A chaptter on the sphinx marks the start of the Codex Extinct Animalia, which the book suggests is an allusion to this trope.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: One chapter in the Codex Extinct Animalia is about them, with the book and Dr. Black lamenting how its mismatched elements would appear to lead to many disadvantages.
* RiddlingSphinx: A chaptter on the sphinx marks the start of the Codex Extinct Animalia, which the book suggests is an allusion to this trope.
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* FaunsAndSatyrs: One of the subjects Dr. Black studies. One chapter is dedicated to the cadaver a hoofed man Dr. Black finds in a sideshow.
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* CutLexLuthorACheck: It's made explicitly clear that Dr. Black is a gifted surgeon and did help many of his patients. Unfortunately, his personal fascinations outweighed the good he did.
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''The Resurrectionist: The Lost Works of Dr. Spencer Black''' is a 2013 fiction book by author E.B. Hudspeth. The book professes to be a biography of a doctor in Gilded Age-era Philadelphia who believes that creatures supposedly only of myth are linked to humanity's evolutionary history and goes to great lengths to prove it, as well as a book he written on his creations and theories, the Codex Extinct Animalia.
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''The Resurrectionist: The Lost Works of Dr. Spencer Black''' Black'' is a 2013 fiction book by author E.B. Hudspeth. The book professes to be a biography of a doctor in Gilded Age-era Philadelphia who believes that creatures supposedly only of myth are linked to humanity's evolutionary history and goes to great lengths to prove it, as well as a book he written on his creations and theories, the Codex Extinct Animalia.
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* EvilutionaryBiologist: Spencer Black is one of these, though he’s less about furthering evolution and more about trying to recapture humanity’s supposedly-lost origins by contorting people and animals into facsimiles of mythical creatures.
* TheFreakshow: After being rejected by the scientific community, Black decides to take his creations on the road in the form of a travelling show dubbed “The Human Renaissance”. It goes [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity surprisingly well despite waves of revulsion, controversy and even mobs after his head]]...at least until one of his beasts gets loose and mauls a patron, forcing him to end the show.
* TheFreakshow: After being rejected by the scientific community, Black decides to take his creations on the road in the form of a travelling show dubbed “The Human Renaissance”. It goes [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity surprisingly well despite waves of revulsion, controversy and even mobs after his head]]...at least until one of his beasts gets loose and mauls a patron, forcing him to end the show.
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'''''The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black''''' is a 2013 fiction book by author E.B. Hudspeth. The book professes to be a biography of a Gilded Age-era medical doctor and scientist out of Philadephia who believes creatures supposedly only of myth and human mutations are linked to humanity's evolutionary history, and he goes to great lengths to prove it, as well as a book he written on his creations and theories, Codex Extinct Animalia.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Even in the late 1800's, Dr. Black's theories on evolutionary biology are very wrong.
* BodyHorror: it crops up a lot when the subject is a medical doctor specialising in malformities and starts assembling mythical creatures out of cadavers.
* MadScientist: Spencer Black is this. What else can you call a man who believes fauns, harpies, snd pretty much every mythical creature existed or sews wings onto horses and people to represent them?
* BodyHorror: it crops up a lot when the subject is a medical doctor specialising in malformities and starts assembling mythical creatures out of cadavers.
* MadScientist: Spencer Black is this. What else can you call a man who believes fauns, harpies, snd pretty much every mythical creature existed or sews wings onto horses and people to represent them?
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Even in the late 1800's, Dr. Black's theories on evolutionary biology are very wrong.
wrong, even by the standards of the mid-to-late 19th century. It’s ultimately deconstructed, as he’s all but laughed out of the scientific community for his nonsensical theories and ends up turning to the {{freak show}} circuit to show off his creations.
* BodyHorror:it crops up a lot when When the subject of the book is a medical doctor specialising in malformities and starts assembling mythical creatures out of cadavers.
cadavers, this is bound to crop up. It culminates in him mutilating the family dog by bisecting it and surgically attaching its front half to the bottom half of a rooster, an act that finally turns his surviving family against him for good. Elise’s later burns are also quite revolting to read about.
* MadScientist: Spencer Black is absolutely this. What else can you call a man who believesfauns, harpies, snd pretty much every mythical that AllMythsAreTrue and is desperately trying to recreate the creatures featured in them?
* MercyKill: After being shown the dog-rooster beast, Black’s wife Elise ends up shooting it in the head with a pistol to put the poor creatureexisted or sews wings onto horses out of its misery.
* UncertainDoom: Spencer Black simply vanishes one day, with his ultimate fate never revealed outside of some final letters to his brother Bernard implying that he turned his wife into a [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy]] andpeople to represent them?expressing regret for how he alienated his family.
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* MadScientist: Spencer Black is absolutely this. What else can you call a man who believes
* MercyKill: After being shown the dog-rooster beast, Black’s wife Elise ends up shooting it in the head with a pistol to put the poor creature
* UncertainDoom: Spencer Black simply vanishes one day, with his ultimate fate never revealed outside of some final letters to his brother Bernard implying that he turned his wife into a [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpy]] and
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'''''The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black''''' is a 2013 fiction book by author E.B. Hudspeth. The book professes to be a biography of a Gilded Age-era medical doctor and scientist out of Philadephia who believes creatures supposedly only of myth and human mutations are linked to humanity's evolutionary history, and he goes to great lengths to prove it, as well as a book he written on his creations and theories.
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'''''The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black''''' is a 2013 fiction book by author E.B. Hudspeth. The book professes to be a biography of a Gilded Age-era medical doctor and scientist out of Philadephia who believes creatures supposedly only of myth and human mutations are linked to humanity's evolutionary history, and he goes to great lengths to prove it, as well as a book he written on his creations and theories.theories, Codex Extinct Animalia.
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* AllMythsAreTrue: Spencer Black believed it.
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'''''The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black''''' is a 2013 fiction book by author E.B. Hudspeth. The book professes to be a biography of a Gilded Age-era medical doctor and scientist out of Philadephia who believes creatures supposedly only of myth and human mutations are linked to humanity's evolutionary history, and he goes to great lengths to prove it, as well as a book he written on his creations and theories.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Even in the late 1800's, Dr. Black's theories on evolutionary biology are very wrong.
* BodyHorror: it crops up a lot when the subject is a medical doctor specialising in malformities and starts assembling mythical creatures out of cadavers.
* MadScientist: Spencer Black is this. What else can you call a man who believes fauns, harpies, snd pretty much every mythical creature existed or sews wings onto horses and people to represent them?
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Even in the late 1800's, Dr. Black's theories on evolutionary biology are very wrong.
* BodyHorror: it crops up a lot when the subject is a medical doctor specialising in malformities and starts assembling mythical creatures out of cadavers.
* MadScientist: Spencer Black is this. What else can you call a man who believes fauns, harpies, snd pretty much every mythical creature existed or sews wings onto horses and people to represent them?
