The Good Book

"Klatu... verata... nictu...?"

Bollthorn

*theatrical gesture* Magnets!

Taellosse

Don't think about it too hard, it'll only end in paradox-induced migraines and more (but different) confusion.

Dustin

for the Hellsing abridged fans: "VERY enthusiastic walks"

anthroPC hands and feet ... I have so many questions.

Danielle Crawford

If it was weird because it says "Thou shalt commit adultery", then it would be worth a lot of money!

Mark

It's never been very common, but it's more common than most people think. There's enough of them to have a special bibliographic term: anthropodermic bindings or anthropodermic bibliopegy. Many of them have been medical books, some have been confessions of murderers or documents about murder cases bound in the murderer's own skin, or bound in skin for various other odd reasons; a lot of it done by doctors, because they had the access to human bodies. It's not a book, but I have seen in Edinburgh a small calling card case bound in the skin of the murderer William Burke, from the famous Burke & Hare case. ("Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef.")

Clifton Royston

any chance i could borrow that Bible Nelson? for reasons.

Absentia

^(;,;)^

Todd Ellner

Creepy. If I want to be memorialized, that definitely wouldn't be my choice.

awgiedawgie

Oh, please no...can you imagine Yay smarming around acting superior to everybody at a party? Unless Jeph can have him taken down a notch...

Ursus Ridens

It was actually very common in the 18th and 19th century to request in your will that your skin be turned into book binding, almost always for bibles specifically

Doomska

Nelson, buddy… what the hell?

KingAtticus

I've heard a couple medical books from the 1800s were bound in human skin but I'm not 100% on that. Would be cool to se but I bet you are right on the durability

I am the captian now

Many Bibles - particularly older printings - are bound in cow skin. Human skin is a bit too thin, and not nearly tough enough for book-binding. It wouldn't hold up very well.

awgiedawgie

That's odd... on page 237 it says "Jebus".

Brooke Vibber

And May. Seeing those two in the same group ought to be interesting. And Winslow apparently goes... https://topatoco.com/collections/jeph-jacques/products/qc-dapu-pr

Oh please let Yay be on the invite list!

Douglas E. Smith

Nelson used to order those mugs by the case, but he started dreading when the receptionist would inform him of their arrival.

Mad Marie

Crossover with somethingpositive time. New friend!

RoofPig