Cranioklepty grave robbing and the search for genius

"Presents a history of cranioklepty, the desire to possess the skulls of the brilliant and famous, either for study, for sale, or for display. Includes the after-death stories of Haydn, Beethoven, Emanuel Swedenborg, Thomas Browne, and others."
"Presents a history of cranioklepty, the desire to possess the skulls of the brilliant and famous, either for study, for sale, or for display. Includes the after-death stories of Haydn, Beethoven, Emanuel Swedenborg, Thomas Browne, and others."@en
"The afterdeath stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness. Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures of an anthology of realafterlife gothic tales. Beginning dramatically with the opening of Haydn's grave in October 1820, cranioklepty takes us on an extraordinary history of a peculiar kind of obsession. The desire to own the skulls of the famous, for study, for sale, for public (and priva."@en