(rare) Person who vandalizes books by ripping their pages out and stealing them.
Andrew Lang, The Library, There is a thievish nature more hateful than the biblioklept. The Book-Ghoul is he who combines the larceny of the biblioklept with the abominable wickedness of breaking up and mutilating the volumes from which he steals.
1959, January 25, Elizabeth Lawrence, Through the Garden Gate, I bought the text of the volume on bulbs for a dollar. It had been priced at a hundred dollars before some book-ghoul tore out the fifty-eight plates to use as decorations for lamp shades and scrap baskets.
1973, August, Julia Fields, The Plot To Bring Back Dunking, And the front doors were locked. Locked for what? Burglary? Ol' book-ghoul come to retrieve his pictures from E-boney?
