Books bound in human skin

nortonew · Post by **nortonew** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:51 pm

As befits the library that contains the official H.P. Lovecraft archive, the library of Brown University in Providence also contains several tomes that are bound in human skin. Oddly enough, none of these works are actually part of the Lovecraft archive, (nor are they copies of the Necronomicon).

Here is a link to an article on the subject

(Admin edit: fixed the link so it would not stretch the page)

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:45 am

Niceness.

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:51 am

ahha! quick you guys, we need the Decayed Skin of a Drug addict, were gonna make the Necronomicon, and make it to where it looks so freakishly old and un testable, and we will donate it to the harvard library saying "It was a sort of Tome, Passed down in my family for generations.... it says that there were only 100 Arabic Translations of this book."

yeah, lets do it, THROW OUT YER DEAD!

Post by **Aleister** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:20 pm

I imagine it would not be that hard to get a cadaver.. why not go with the real thing?

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:41 pm

Hell, I'm sure I could procure one within a month or two, if I tried. I've no connections, but it can't be that hard.

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:52 pm

yeah, get us a dead homeless guy, ill take the skin and bind some books, then i will send the books made to you guys to fill it up with Arcane Knowledge, and the first one to fill the book up will be used as the Bible in the Church of Cthulhu.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:46 pm

Or, I could get my copy of "The Ancient Track" recovered.

Secret3 · Post by **Secret3** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:39 pm

You know, if you think about it right, nobody even needs to be dead to make a book bound in human hide. Why, you could probably find one of those clinics where they do tummy-tucks, and ask for the leftovers. They have to pay to dispose of them normally as a biohazardous material, so they'd probably be more than happy to just give you a garbage can full of flabby, stretch-marked belly skin! What better for an ancient tome?

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:50 pm

Hmm. It's even older, considering that most of it will be from 50-something revenants wanting to look 40 again.

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:22 am

hrmm.. athst a good idea, but i doubt that they would just say "ohh YEah, sure, go digging in the dumpster, theres some stuff in there for a 400 pound man"..... okay fine, someone get me some of that skin and ill make the books, ship em out to you guys and you guys can write the Volumes of the Necronomicon, okay?

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:15 pm

Why? Why can't we write our own book, that will be less ridiculed?

Post by **Aleister** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:36 pm

Why not just leave the pages blank.. that way the would-be cultists can use it as a magick journal, and document their progress in insanity.

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:29 pm

but... what about bringing about the existance of the Necronomicon?

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:03 pm

Been done.

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:22 pm

fine... lets just write the bible in it and sell it to christians and say "Its bound in the Flesh of Jesus!"