Here's a little something for the shelves of the Surnateum:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3......00.html#


"A 400-year-old book covered in a sheet of wrinkled human skin is going under the hammer in a bizarre auction.

It is thought the skin was cut from the corpse of one of Guy Fawkes' fellow conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

And if you hold the novel in the right light, you might even see a ghostly face on the cover, it is claimed."

I have to steal this one for my collection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Gigas