![]() ![]() Throughout the book, the reader follows author Megan Rosenbloom, a journalist and UCLA librarian, as her research takes her to libraries and cultural institutions within the United States, England, and France where she engages with librarians, historians, and leather craftsmen to uncover the science and history of these grisly artifacts. ![]() However, to assume that Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin will appeal only to fans of the macabre would be an underestimation of the content covered therein. For most, the ghoulish concept of anthropodermic bibliopegy, or the practice of binding books in human skin, often conjures fictional imagery of a witch's grimoire or H.P. ![]()
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