Charles Lotin Hildreth

Charles Lotin Hildreth (August 28, 1856 - August 12, 1896) was an American dentist, poet, and author. Widely published as a poet during his lifetime, Hildreth is most noted today as the "lay source" of the story of Edward Mordake, an Englishman who was host to a parasitic female twin on the back of his head that tormented him to the point he committed suicide, first included as part of a news story that was published in many American newspapers during December 1895 and later reprinted as a matter of well-known fact by Gould and Pyle in their 1897 book Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine.