No Necronomicon? Harvard Claims A Surprising Number Of Books Bound In Human Flesh

Sunday, April 6, 2014 - 20:00 in Physics & Chemistry

When you have been around as long as Harvard, and your library contains 15 million books, you are bound to have a few that are bound in human flash.Wait, what?Yes, an interesting article by Samuel Jacobs in The Crimson from 2006 got resurrected recently. It detailed what librarians would rather not become an object of morbid fascination - that some of their books are bound in human skin. Odd, right?  read more

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