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Well that's a creative response. Now we need to know why!
>>WHOSE SKULL WOULD YOU DIG?<<Tiamat's. In this depressed real estate economy, I bet I could still, ahem, make a killing.
Happy Halloween!! Thank you for so many great responses! We had a tough time narrowing them down, but you can read our favorite 30 submissions here: ...We'll be contacting winners directly, but feel free to send us your address right away to receive your copy of CRANIOKLEPTY: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey ().
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rachel / Unbridled Books
Cranioklepty (the theft of skulls) has fallen out of fashion, but it wasn’t very long ago that stealing skulls was viewed by some as akin to possessing genius. Colin Dickey has written the history of this peculiar kind of obsession in his forthcoming CRANIOKLEPTY: GRAVE ROBBING AND THE SEARCH FOR GENIUS (coming out later this month). The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Emanuel Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness. The desire to own the skulls of the famous, for study, for sale, for public (and private) display, seems to be instinctual and irresistible in some people. So, again, WHOSE SKULL WOULD YOU DIG?
You can send us your choice—by responding to this discussion (preferred!), posting a comment on our profile page, or via email ([email protected]) between September 9 and October 21, 2009. We’ll be posting the most lively ones (no pun intended) on Cranioklepty.com and as a thank you, we’ll be sending a copy of CRANIOKLEPTY to the folks whose selections most intrigued us. Winners will be announced on October 31, 2009 (yes, on Halloween). For complete rules and regulations visit ... We do not, for the record, endorse the actual stealing of skulls!