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Spooky Silent Library
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Libraries creep some people out all on their own. So an eerily desolate and truly completely silent one is a very effective setting if you want to make the situation even creepier. The library could be lacking in patrons for any reason — it could be abandoned or merely after closing hours. It could be shabby and full of crumbling books, or it could be in good order just without anyone there. This tends to be more effective with older styled buildings than with ultra modern libraries. May be a Magical Library. May have a Scary Librarian, or even Evil Librarians. |
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Megas XLR: "Buggin' The System" has the Ringworld Library, untouched for eons and filled with dead robots. | |
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There are several old and eerie libraries in the Nancy Drew computer game series, but the best example of this trope has to be the vandalized library in Treasure in the Royal Tower. | |
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In Dark Souls III the Grand Archive of the Lothric Castle is one of the last areas of the game, and it's practically a love letter to this trope. It's an enormous tower filled with endless stacks of bookshelves, eerie, wax-covered scholars and cursed books that attack you with ghostly hands — as well as an extremely irritating, constantly teleporting miniboss. | |
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The Time Machine (and subsequent adaptations) have included a scene involving an enormous abandoned library where all the books have decayed to dust. | |
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In Harry Potter, the school library's restricted section gets pretty spooky at night... are those books whispering? It doesn't help that many of the books there are literally cursed, and you never know which ones... | |
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The Library of Magic in Baten Kaitos, complete with a host of undead enemies. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "Time Enough at Last" ends with a lone man, an empty library, and a broken pair of glasses. Possibly better known by now through parodies than through the original. | |
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The Sunken Library in Obsidian fits this trope to a degree, at least by the music. It's a very small area though, and there's nothing to do there except to change faces of the Bureau. You are able to pull some books off a shelf, when you're standing in such a way that the shelves are a ceiling and floor, and watch them fall sideways towards a pile at the "bottom". The Records Face that comes a bit later can also feel like this, as it's one of the few faces in the Bureau that no one is present on. (Except for a snarky computer terminal). | |
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Most libraries in the Resident Evil series, except in the remake of the first game, where you fight the Yawn for the second time. | |
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The basement of the police station in Fahrenheit is silent except for the sound of the heartbeat of the officer who's walking through it. Who suffers from nearly crippling claustrophobia, requiring a balancing mini-game to allow her to to navigate the library without panicking herself into unconsciousness. | |
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The Owl House has the Forbidden Stacks in the Bonesborough Library, which is dark, tended to by spectral arms, and off limits to everybody but the head librarian. The rest of the library is a lot more welcoming, to the point that one could easily mistake it for an ordinary Earth library if it wasn't for all the demons and witches walking around. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender "The Library", guarded by the huge and intimidating Knowledge Spirit Wan Shi Tong. | |
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The Zurich library that MI6 agent Kara investigates in the 3rd Covert Front game plays this very well. After leaving the hotel in the previous chapter that some nice violin music, all you hear in this area is just the wind on a cold night. And just when Kara finds a lead to Karl Von Toten in its archives, Manfred Nikolai's thugs ambush her from the shadows. | |
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An episode of Arthur was actually about both Arthur and Francine being accidentally locked inside the library after closing hours. | |
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The Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Tale of the Quiet Librarian". | |
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A much less sinister example would be the old library in the second chapter of Gunnerkrigg Court. | |
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Sequential Art shows one under the protagonist's house right next to the missile silo. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls series, Apocrypha is the realm of Hermaeus Mora, the Daedric Prince of Knowledge. Apocrypha is a giant library said to contain all knowledge in the form of tomes. It is also filled with ghosts constantly seeking knowledge and Mora's Cthulhumanoid servants. | |
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game has a level set in the Metropolitan Library. The Busters have another encounter with the library ghost from the first movie, learn a bit about her backstory, and travel to another dimension. | |
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The Library in the second Clock Tower game, especially with the threat of Scissorman, who happens to be inside the building too. | |
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On A.N.T. Farm, when the Internet access is banned at the school in the episode ANTswers, to find facts the kids resort to visiting the library, which not only is dark, silent and full of cobwebs, the librarian is dead and all that remains is a clothed skeleton. | |
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Doctor Who: "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" has the titular Library. Gets extra points for being a planet-sized abandoned library. And more so when it's not actually abandoned. | |
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Finch sets up a base of operations in one of these in the pilot episode of Person of Interest. When it's next seen two episodes later, it's been cleaned up and all the shelves have been restocked. | |
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The Ghostbusters encounter their first actual ghost in one of these. Ray's plan to catch the ghost isn't very well thought out. | |
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The Pagemaster is set in one of these, which becomes a fantasy land once the film shifts into animation. | |
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The Metro City Library of Condemned: Criminal Origins would certainly apply, especially when seeing thugs quickly step behind shelves. | |
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Libiris in the Magic Kingdom of Landover books is this. Made worse by its creepy caretaker and the Throg monkeys. | |
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The Storybrooke library in Once Upon a Time is this when we first get to see it thanks to Regina keeping it locked up for 28 years (because she holds Maleficent the Dragon and the curse's failsafe trigger underneath it). After the curse is broken and Belle becomes town librarian, she starts cleaning the place up and making it warm and bright again. However, elements of danger still occur there, such as Belle getting attacked by Hook or Regina getting kidnapped by Greg and Tamara. | |
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The school library in Buffy the Vampire Slayer is played up like this in the first episode (and, apart from the stars, few people venture there through the series). | |
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Star Wars Legends: Galaxy of Fear: Ghost of the Jedi takes place in part on Nespis 8, an ancient abandoned space station that contains a huge hidden library. Said library is forbidden, for Jedi only, and it's said that anyone else who finds it dies. Actually the books steal people's Life Energy. | |
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Merlin has a dark old library full of dusty books and cobwebs — though so far, nothing horrible has happened there. | |
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