Edward Mordrake, the man born with an extra face at the back of his head

Edward Mordake (or Edward Mordrake) is the character of a popular urban legend, named as the 19th century heir to an English peerage. He supposedly had an extra face on the back of his head, which could neither eat nor speak, although it could laugh and cry. But, as seen on the only picture we have, he could not possibly have a skull, even less a proper brain, demonstrating therefore that the image is a hoax.

Edward begged doctors to have his "demon face" removed, because, supposedly, it whispered demonic words to him at night, but no doctor would attempt it. He committed suicide when he was 23.

The description of Edward Mordake's condition is somewhat similar to those of Chang Tzu Ping and Pasqual Pinon. Both Mordake and Pinon are featured as the 2 Very Special Cases on a list of 10 People With Extra Limbs or Digits in The Book of Lists edition of 1976.[2]

The 1896 text Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine [1] mentions a version of the story and Edward has now been featured in many texts, plays, and songs. [3] Tom Waits wrote a song about Edward Mordake titled "Poor Edward" for his album Alice.[

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