CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (WKRC) - A university library has removed human flesh that was used to bind one of their older books after discovering its macabre history. In 2014, Harvard University's Houghton ...

For 90 years, a book about the soul after death was bound in human skin. Now, Harvard has removed the binding and apologized for its handling of the book.

Books bound in human skin — and the sometimes sensational stories surrounding them — have long occupied an odd place in the annals of the rare book world. Over the years, they have been ...

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Lawsuit against Harvard for stolen body parts case dismissed Harvard Library says it has removed a book that's been in its collection for nearly a century that is partially made with human skin ...

In 2022, a report was released that identified more than 20,000 human remains in the university’s collections, the Times reported. That included full skeletons, hair, bone fragments and teeth.

The book, bound in human flesh and housed in Houghton Library for almost a century, was so popular that it had inspired hazing rituals at Harvard University.