Edward Mordake (variously Mordrake) is the apocryphal subject of an urban legend who was, according to the legend, born in the 19th century, heir to an English peerage, and had a face at the back of his head.
An account described Mordake’s figure as one with remarkable grace and with a face that is similar to that of an Antinous. The second (supposedly female) face had a pair of eyes and a mouth that drooled.
The duplicate face could not see, eat or speak out loud but was said to “sneer while Mordake was happy” and “smile while Mordake was weeping”. Mordake repeatedly begged doctors to have his “demon face” removed, claiming that it whispered things that “one would only speak about in hell” at night, but no doctor would attempt it.
He begged doctors to remove it as he claimed it whispered horrific things to him. He committed suicide at the age of 23.
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