Author Maganrosen blom is one of the world experts in books bound in human skin, including some authors who had their books bound in their own skin after they died. In her 20 20 book, dark archives, a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound inhuman skin. There are a lot of very, very creepy stories about this, but she picked an excerpt from dark archives to remind us that writing isn't always smooth as silk or as leather. So buy all these books at the length of the show notes, alley ward dot com. You can gout all up in the first one, again, at alleward dot slash ologies, slash

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