Book's Bound in Human Skin

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Brown University's library boasts an anatomy book that combines form and function in macabre fashion. Its cover ? tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, like fine leather ? is made of human skin.

In fact, a number of the nation's finest libraries, including Harvard's, have such books in their collections. The practice of binding books in human skin was not uncommon in centuries past, even if it was not always discussed in polite society.

Centuries ago, the best libraries belonged to private collectors. Some were doctors who had access to skin from amputated parts and patients whose bodies had gone unclaimed. In other cases, wealthy bibliophiles acquired skin from executed criminals, medical school cadavers and people who died in the poorhouse.

Full story.

-The Scummy-

 

One reason why my future profession is in human anatomy or pathology.

 

Human skin, like human hair, once removed from the body is repulsive and gag inducing.

 

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Bound in human flesh and inked in blood...The Necronomicon Ex Mortis: The Book of the Dead

 

That is really cool - just gross enough to be fascinating.

Can I donate my skin to be a book cover when I'm dead? I would love to become a hardback copy of one of my favorites... or heck, I'm a grown woman, I probably have enough for two.

 

So, time for the real question.





















What's with the apostrophe?

 

Pressing questions, you ask, Phoenix.

More on my mind: where can I find the necronomicon?

 

She's prolly harvesting cheetos somewhere.

 

That book was delicious! Needed salt, though.

 

Umm...gross.

 

When I die, I want my skin to bind a copy of the Bible.

 

I only buy books that are bound in human foreskin.

 

Umm...grosser.

 

Find your copy at Amazon.com today!

 

3rd post....I'm surprised it took that many to mention Evil Dead

 

3rd post....I'm surprised it took that many to mention Evil Dead/

My first thought was Hocus Pocus, actually.

 

That's the sickest thing I've ever heard.

 

Just be sure to grab the correct one...

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well, gives a new meaning to 'devouring' a book.

 

And I thought actual leather was gross.

 

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Tasty.

 

It's actually quite a nice way to keep one's literature. My copy of "Hop on Pop" is bound in Friedrich Nietzsche's skin.

 

Klaatu... Barata... *cough*nisdflkd*cough*

*tentatively reaches for the Necronomicon*





Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat.

 

So do the people working at the library have to apply moisturizer every so often?