Frankenbooks.

• Position: LITERATURE - Book bounded by human skin - Brief article

Here's one book you might want to judge by its cover: On the Destiny of the Soul, a 19thcentury French book about life after death, is bound in human skin. It was left at a Harvard University library in 1934 along with a note claiming it was bound in flesh from a woman's back. But it wasn't until recently that scientists at Harvard confirmed the claim, using a technique that identifies human proteins. As grisly as it may sound today, binding books in human skin was once fairly common: Since at least the 1500s, the printed confessions of...