Category: Books

  • The House That Closed Its Eyes at Night

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    By the time Maeve realised she was living inside one of those haunted window tales she loved to read, it was far too late to move out. The house had already learned her name. It started, as these things often do, with a bargain. The letting agent called it “atmospheric” and “full of character”. Maeve…

  • The Dark History Of Anthropodermic Books

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    Among all the strange objects in libraries and museums, few are as unsettling as anthropodermic books. These are volumes bound in human skin, sitting quietly on shelves beside far more ordinary tomes. For readers who love the macabre side of book history, they represent the point where literature, medicine and mortality collide in a truly…