| Retrieved March 2, 2018 — via | " No voice was audible, but Mordake avers that he was kept from his rest at night by the hateful whispers of his "devil twin", as he called it, "which never sleeps, but talks to me forever of such things as they only speak of in Hell |
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| " It would be seen to smile and sneer while Mordake was weeping | The encyclopedia described the basic morphology of Mordake's condition, but it provided no medical diagnosis for the rare deformity |
According to legend, the face could whisper, grab objects, laugh or cry.
| wrote a song about Mordake titled "Poor Edward" for his album 2002 | It is unclear whether a society with this name existed |
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| His figure was remarkable for its grace, and his face — that is to say, his natural face — was that of an | The duplicate face could not see, eat or speak, but was said to "sneer while Mordake was happy" and "smile while Mordake was weeping" |
" The female face was a mere mask, "occupying only a small portion of the posterior part of the skull, yet exhibiting every sign of intelligence, of a malignant sort, however.
29| Three episodes in the series , "", "", and "", feature the character Edward Mordrake, played by | Edward Mordake sometimes spelled Mordrake is the apocryphal subject of an who was, according to the legend, born in the 19th century as the heir to an with a face at the back of his head |
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| Mordake begged doctors to remove it, repeatedly, claiming it whispered bad things to him at night, before committing suicide at the age of 23 | Pyle, included an account of Mordake |
Canadian metal band released a song called "Edward Mordrake" on their 2014 album Cynosure.
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