Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom

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

Megan Rosenbloom

274 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science dark informative medium-paced

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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 you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Mega...

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