[Alex Murphy]

From the article Rare and Well Done...

Although civil rights footage and information relating to black history are the most requested items of the department, Special Collections [Department of the Ned McWherter Library at the University of Memphis] has many other gems that fall into no particular category. For example, hidden within its archives is the 400-year-old book Lidolatrie Huguenote, a French-Catholic response to Protestantism. The most interesting thing about this book, however, is not its age, but its binding. The book was published in 1608 using anthropodermic binding, meaning the cover was made from human skin.

Title page, Lidolatrie Huguenote

From the article Books Bound in Human Skin; Lampshade Myth?

While their credibility is questionable, there are some historical reports of a 13th century bible and a text of the Decretals (Catholic canon law) written on human skin.

[GoLightly]

Shades of Ed Gein.

[Hacksaw]

Would you post an article about Nazi lampshades and say “Happy Yom Kippur day”, Alex Murphy? You can’t equivocate this one away.