clsage Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Just came across this story and while it probably has usages in other genres, I thought that the obvious arcane oriented plot hooks might fit this genre best. https://roadtrippers.com/blog/harvard-discovers-three-of-its-library-books-are-bound-in-human-flesh -Carl- EDIT: corrected terminology in subject line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Three, that they know of, and they're not checking for more. Pedantic nitpick: "Flesh" is muscle and fat, these books wee bound in human skin, not flesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clsage Posted April 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Pedantic nitpick: "Flesh" is muscle and fat, these books wee bound in human skin, not flesh. Truth...I had simply reposted the headline from the source. I'll see if I can edit it, so it would at least be accurate here. -Carl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Roman poetry, French philosophy, Spanish law... not the most ominous subjects for such a covering. And the "flayed alive" volume turns out to not be human skin at all. Still, the fact that the precedent even exists is intriguing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCoy Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Truth...I had simply reposted the headline from the source. I'll see if I can edit it, so it would at least be accurate here. -Carl- My apologies, I should have said the nitpick was not directed at you but the original article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 And the question arises ... whose skin? That could matter in a creepy enough world.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clsage Posted April 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Well....The myth still makes a good 'plot hook'...shrug. http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/04/03/harvard-book-made-of-human-skin/ -Carl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Necronomicon much? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Liber Paginarum Fulvarum, or, the Necrotelecomnicon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roter Baron Posted April 22, 2014 Report Share Posted April 22, 2014 So are all my books in my home library. And the text-books we use at school (usually made out of unruly pupils - as the saying goes: "Once you disturb you a warned. Twice you disturb and you are scorned. And if you do it thrice, we wring your neck and bind a book nice'." So: What's the big deal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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