Books bound in human flesh found on Harvard’s shelves

You may love libraries, but would you want to spend your afterlife in one?

2 Apr 2014 12:00

Richard Watts

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Writing and Publishing

One of the books from Harvard’s University: image via www.io9.com

Harvard librarians have identified at least three books bound in human flesh in the university’s collection.

The three volumes reside in the Langdell Law Library, the Countway Library of Medicine, and the Houghton Collection, a repository of rare books and manuscripts.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts