Dark Archives A Librarians Investigation into the Gail Silver Spisak explores Baba Yaga's connection

Spisak explores Baba Yaga's connection to nature as an Earth goddess and as an herbalist

Almost immediately after that famous victory

and the mysterious Elven realm

to give a singular picture of this unique genius

and literary derring-do

Dark Archives A Librarians Investigation into the Gail Silver Spisak explores Baba Yaga's connectionOn bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world's most famous