Blog: Spooky! Scary!

tags: anthropodermic bibliopegy, human skin, skin, murderer, medical oddities, pocketbook, William Burke
Amongst a collection of medical oddities housed at the Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh lies a tattered pocketbook. It is dark brown—nearly black—with a pebbled texture and gold lettering that has begun to fade with age. Upon closer inspection,
tags: anthropodermic bibliopegy, human skin, skin, murderer, medical oddities, pocketbook, William Burke