Edward Mordrake: Man with two faces.!!

Edward Mordrake was a young, intelligent, and good-looking English nobleman who had everything one could ask for from life. He was born as a malevolent, meaning that he had a second face which occupied the posterior part of his skull – a condition which is known as Craniopagus Parasiticus or Parasite Twin Disease.

This horrifying second face was 'as lovely as a dream, hideous as a devil.’ His natural face was that of an Antonius.

‘ 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.

 It was also said that the second face could not see, eat or speak out loudly, but did exactly the opposite actions of Edward Mordrake for instance when he cried, the face is said to smile when he smiled the face grimaced and sneered at him.

Edward Mordrake was constantly plagued by his “devil twin,” however.’ It would be seen to smile and sneer while Mordake was weeping. The eyes would follow the movements of the spectator, and the lips would ‘gibber without ceasing.’ 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. No imagination can conceive the dreadful temptations it sets before me. For some unforgiven wickedness of my forefathers I am knit to this fiend—for a fiend it surely is. I beg and beseech you to crush it out of human semblance, even if I die for it.’Such were the words of the hapless Mordake to Manvers and Treadwell, his physicians.

Inspite of careful watching, the young lord was eventually driven mad and took his own life at the age of just twenty-three, leaving behind a note ordering the evil face be destroyed after his death, “lest it continues its dreadful whispering in my grave.”