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Two weeks ago a lot of people were linking to a story about
books bound in human skin that can be found in many libraries, including the rare book libraries at Brown and Harvard. This is, apparently, quite true. Often the books are old medical works, with the skin coming from patients or paupers whose bodies were bought for research. The most gruesome book, owned by the Boston Athenaeum, is an 1837 copy of the memoirs of the highwayman George Walton, bound in his own skin.
Following on in this vein,
Paul Collins has noted that
Mark Gruenwald, a writer for Marvel Comics, had his cremated ashes mixed into the printing of a comic book, Squadron Supreme. This is absolutely true. A copy of this "cremain printing" is currently
for sale on eBay. The seller notes: "The book is in good shape with a ding on the upper, left corner from falling off a table. I hate to part with Mark, but I'm real tired of telling him to get his ash off the table."
The only other way I can think of to incorporate a human body into a book would be to write it in blood, which I'm sure someone has done. Though maybe I'm not being imaginative enough. Perhaps one could make a book's spine out of human bone, the paper from hair and nails... the possibilities are endless.
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Also, performance artist Istvan Kantor has done several "blood paintings" (bringing a new meaning to the phrase "mixed media").
I thought it was Kiss, I wasn't sure
I remember when that thing came out
almost wish I'd bought a copy, but then
I'm not into Kiss.
http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/nl/huizen/amstel216.html
On the bottom of the page the drawings can be seen.
The adress of the house is Amstel 216 (near the new townhall)
about
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NECRONOMICAN?
It kicks Ash
it doesnt exist
hp lovecraft made it up, he says so many times, infact hp lovecraft was a committed atheist, and worked with harry houdini to write a book called "the cancer of superstition"
(it was never published