“Book Her!”

A hundred years ago the phrase “throw the book at” someone had a very different meaning, apparently:

chained woman in a filmy transparent dress near a book dangling from a chain

Artwork is a detail from the cover of the October 1928 issue of Weird Tales, painted by pulp illustrator C. C. Senf.

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One comment on ““Book Her!””:

RC commented on December 26th, 2024 at 10:56 pm:

The book belongs to her. It had been kept in the basement of the church, until some bright fellow decided to retrieve it and attach it to her scaffold. She is Ivga Benryk of Ponkert, the werewolf’s daughter, and she has been bound like this to pass the night, waiting to be burned in the morning.

Does she get rescued? Ah! Now, you wouldn’t want me to spoil the ending, would you?

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