Waste not, want not.

Post by **DustyStyx** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 04:55 am

Found this article over at BoingBoing about books bound with human skin.

And you thought it was just the Necronomicon!

scar3crow · Post by **scar3crow** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 05:16 am

Very interesting, and interesting to see how such behaviour doesnt just occur in the fictional societies such as the Cabal or the factual horrors we know of such as the Nazis.

The only book Ive held bound with any skin other then cow was a 13th century hymnal made of sheep skin and using a hand chopped chunk of wood as the spine.

Necrosis · Post by **Necrosis** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 05:25 am

Interesting? More totally freaking AWESOME to me.

RedFanatic · Post by **RedFanatic** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:18 pm

Theres a story written in your skin

Lizzy · Post by **Lizzy** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 04:06 pm

This is indeed an odd way to bound books, I have a book of forbidden words witch i have been told to also be bound by human skin, not sure if its true, would be interesting to find out.

r_cain · Post by **r_cain** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 07:54 pm

Only one question remains - what do they look like??

(and where can u buy one?

)

mouth · Post by **mouth** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 08:55 pm

wow, that's some freaky sh1t.

Lizzy · Post by **Lizzy** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:08 pm

I found a picture:

Looks normal, but with a twist.

r_cain · Post by **r_cain** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 09:21 pm

It looks old

and nice

But prob not in ebay

RedFanatic · Post by **RedFanatic** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 01:42 pm

Well they make my skin crawl hehehehe

hehehe

but with apologies i have to quickly hijack this thread

i don't know why you facinate me so much Cain but now that i've
discoverd your names reason i really need to know what the heck
that thing is on your sig pic

r_cain · Post by **r_cain** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 02:17 pm

lol, happy to help a bloodite go

That is a lil piccy of the original dreaming god, the Great Cthulhu, as drawn by Goomi

linkage under.

http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/home.html

But on a more on-topic way, he is thought (by a large number of people) to have imagined the Necromomicon, wich in Evildead 1-3 is made form human skin!!

Wow, post saved!!!

RedFanatic · Post by **RedFanatic** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 05:06 pm

lol thats one wierd comic Cain i love the character descriptions

but what i really want to know is whats the best place to shall we say
harvest ones book cover from? it may look nice but what if thats a
butt book

r_cain · Post by **r_cain** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:07 pm

lmao!!!

a butt book

Prob best on the chest , prob back as its got tighter skin and less sagging etc.

and i depends on the size of the book. and its dimensions.

hmmm, this is sounding do-able

Lizzy · Post by **Lizzy** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:22 am

The chest, no not the chest, i would rather keep my chest if you know what i mean, TMI. The back would be a good choice but i would have thought the skin on the forearms would be the best.

Do-able, ouch.

r_cain · Post by **r_cain** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 02:20 pm

Forearm skin can be a little 'used'

The back skin would be best quality and maybe leg skin.

Maybe this is an idea for the Transfusion manual?