Philadelphia, end of 1870th. City of gas lanterns, paved streets, equestrian crews - and motherland of defiant споры surgeon of Spenser Блэка. Studying in the prestige Philadelphian medical academy, young doctor Блэк, son of plunderer of graves, worked out an unusual hypothesis: that, if the most famous mythical creatures are mermaids, минотавры and satires - actually evolutional ancestors of people?"Revive" is two surprizing books in one. First is the invented biography of doctor of Spenser Блэка : from the childhood conducted after exhumation of dead bodies, to educating to medicine, trips with carnivals and, finally, enigmatic disappearance in the end. The second book is main labour of his life - "Code of extinct animals". It is "Anatomy Warming" for mythical creatures - dragons, centaurs, пегасов, церберов, - each of that is presented on carefully gone into detail anatomic illustrations. One enough look is to these pictures, to understand: this creation of madman. And "Revive" is his history.