Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if y…

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