An elderly scholar reads a book as white birds flutter around him, framed by an archway revealing a colossal skull floating in stormy seas, with a gothic castle emerging from its cranium under a moonlit sky.

The Librarian of Doom: Cataloging Castles Built on Skulls Since 1789

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