On matters too gross for conversation

Possessions better left to others:

Books made of skin.

You know, when a serial killer collects goods like this, it’s another step towards their capture and conviction. When a distinguished library does it, in struts the First Amendment. And here I thought this was an urban legend.

7 thoughts on “On matters too gross for conversation

  • January 12, 2006 at 9:10 pm
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    ewwwwww! Makes my bookcover crawl!

  • January 13, 2006 at 1:05 pm
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    Hey, if it’s good enough for the Necronomicon then it’s good enough for me.

  • January 14, 2006 at 7:46 am
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    Does the Necronomicon actually exist, though? I was under the impression it was a fraud, in the same vein of the Protocols of Zion.

    In other words, someone latched onto a myth and wrote something to fit a legend, rather than a text fomenting its own history.

    The superstores sell a paperback version ( or did at one time ) of the Necronomicon. Wonder if they’ll reissue a special Ed Gein edition.

  • January 14, 2006 at 7:51 am
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    Hi rutreau, long time no see. I trust your loved ones all surrvived the hurricane season with flying colors?

  • January 14, 2006 at 10:05 am
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    Yes, it is very much a myth. Although you probably don’t want to speak such blasphemy to the Lovecraft geeks, who believe the book actually exists, somewhere. :)

  • January 14, 2006 at 10:42 am
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    Perhaps someday people will say the same of Anne Rice and the Vampire Chronicles.

  • January 14, 2006 at 11:35 am
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    Hey W.G.

    Hurricane Season: We did, we were 200 mi from the Gulf Coast, so we saw the tail end of H. Katrina, Just some trees and branches down, power was off for 14 hours. The old’ arthritis kicked in with post-storm cleanup. I’ll try to catch your old self on trillian soon.

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