Okay, in truth we can't confirm whether or not Leatherface is a card-carrying library guy or not, but we have received word that Harvard University has indeed verified claims that one of its library books is actually bound in human flesh.
We reported this possibility in an earlier story but now have solid proof that the college does indeed possess a tome bound in skin. A Necronomicon? Well, maybe.
Actually, it's nothing quite as interesting as a Book of the Dead, but instead it's Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame (On the Destiny of the Soul), which was confirmed to be an example of anthropodermic bibliopegy (bound by human flesh) after researchers disputed the claim about other titles which were concluded to be bound in sheepskin. Des destinées de l’ame was found to be the real deal.
Harvard's Houghton Library received the book in 1934; it contains a...
We reported this possibility in an earlier story but now have solid proof that the college does indeed possess a tome bound in skin. A Necronomicon? Well, maybe.
Actually, it's nothing quite as interesting as a Book of the Dead, but instead it's Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame (On the Destiny of the Soul), which was confirmed to be an example of anthropodermic bibliopegy (bound by human flesh) after researchers disputed the claim about other titles which were concluded to be bound in sheepskin. Des destinées de l’ame was found to be the real deal.
Harvard's Houghton Library received the book in 1934; it contains a...
- 6/6/2014
- by Scott Hallam
- DreadCentral.com
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