Harvard University announced Wednesday that it removed the human skin binding from a gruesome book in its library. The book, called Des destinées de l’âme, was published in the 1880s by French author ...

Harvard Library announced that it has removed human skin that was used to bind a book from the 1880s. The copy of Arsène Houssaye’s "Des destinées de l’âme" was found in the Houghton Library and has ...

Although e-readers are convenient and you can download entire libraries to your tablet or smartphone, true bibliophiles can expound at length on the textile wonders of holding a real book in one’s ...

The Harvard Library announced Wednesday it removed a human skin binding from a 19th century book that has been in the building for decades. “Des Destinées de l’Ame,” a book written in the 1880s by ...

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The idea of binding a book in human skin might seem like something found only in fiction-there's the Necronomicon in the Evil Dead franchise and the sentient spell book in Hocus Pocus-but there are a ...

correctionA previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Paul Needham as a librarian at Princeton University. He is a retired librarian who had worked at Princeton. The article has been ...