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Mike Jay

Mike Jay’s books include Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century, This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond, and, most recently, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. (November 2020)

An edition of Hans Holbein’s The Dance of Death bound in human skin, 1898

The Hide That Binds

A medical librarian’s history of books covered in human skin.

Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

by Megan Rosenbloom

November 5, 2020 issue

Letter

Paul Needham

A Proper Burial

December 3, 2020 issue

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