Dennis Duncan

Written in blood or bound in human skin: the world’s weirdest books

Edward Brooke-Hitching’s roll-call of peculiar publications includes codes, hoaxes, demonology, pastiches and books invisible to the naked eye

A witch, from the 18th-century Compendium of Demonology. Credit: The Wellcome Collection
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  • The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

    Edward Brooke-Hitching

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 256, £25

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