Uses for the Dead (nonfiction)

Uses for the Dead is a compilation of uses to which the remains of dead persons have been put.

Enrst Oppert

Ernst Jakob Oppert (December 5, 1832 – September 19, 1903) was a Jewish businessman from Germany best known for his unsuccessful attempt in 1867 to remove the remains of the father of regent Yi Ha-eung from their grave in order to use them to blackmail the regent into removing Korean trade barriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Oppert

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links:

• A Book by Its Cover: The strange history of books bound in human skin. @ Lapham's Quarterly
• Books bound in human skin getting forensic investigations @ Boing Boing

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