‘Head of Edward Mordrake, preserved for posterity by Dr. P. Manvers’

Can this truly be the mummified head of the two-faced legend, Edward Mordrake himself? Whose second head didn’t speak except to whisper sinister things to him at night? And who asked that, upon his suicide, the second face should be destroyed, lest it torment him in the grave.

No, and here’s why.