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Tome of Eldritch Lore

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Tome of Eldritch Lore	comment	The Evil Counterpart of the Great Big Book of Everything. An old leatherbound book with engravings depicting unpleasant creatures, prophecies of certain doom, and spells that do everything from turning toenails green to stopping (or causing) The End of the World as We Know It. Needless to say, You Do Not Want To Know where that leather and ink came from. Villains collect these books for their step-by-step guides to bringing about their evil plans. When read by the hapless, they tend to summon The Legions of Hell into the mortal realm. When the books are read by the comic relief, Hilarity Ensues. In Cosmic Horror Stories, they typically drive their readers into gibbering insanity; the title alone can make them hear voices. Reading from one carelessly can result in an Accidental Incantation. Normally these books are centuries old, but one common subversion is for them to be modern paperbacks with almost-familiar names â€” e.g., The Idiot's Guide to Demonology, A Child's Garden of Gibbering Horrors, The Home Handyman's Guide to Building Gates to Hell, Chicken Soup for the Soulless. See also Artifact of Doom, These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know, and Brown Note. Not to be confused with the Great Big Book of Everything or Spell Book, which are more of a neutral nature, or the Deadly Book, which is more actively harmful. May overlap with Tomes of Prophecy and Fate if they have evil prophecies. May serve in-setting as a Monster Compendium, especially in stories in the style of H. P. Lovecraft, in which the heroes sometimes have to familiarise themselves with horrible books, despite the danger to their sanity, in order to understand what they are fighting. Can involve The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You. In some cases, a character coming across such a book will kickstart the plot.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_10d303a2	comment	Shin Megami Tensei IV puts a twist on this trope: The Black Samurai hands out "Literature" that enriches people with knowledge beyond what exists in the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado, but also drives them insane, turning them into demons. It's modern Japanese literature, and the transformation is the result of them going mad from realizing there is a better life outside of their kingdom.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_119a6de4	comment	Asylum (1972 Horror): In "The Weird Tailor", Smith says that he spent his entire fortune to buy a very expensive, one-of-a-kind mystical tome. Its full contents are not revealed, but at the very least, it details how to make a suit that will bring a corpse back to life.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_136469af	comment	In Pact, the protagonists Blake and Rose Thorburn discover that their departed grandmother was not only a powerful diabolist, but that she wrote several dozen such books on the subject of the forces that she trafficked with, and had left them to her heirs upon her death. The given comparison is suddenly inheriting control of a historically troublesome rogue state with access to nuclear weaponry.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_14a837ea	comment	Awful Hospital: Ms. Green ends up buying one of these at a store in a village of bacteria. It's chained up.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_14eb91c0	comment	Shadow Hearts series has the Three Ancient Tomes. They contain extremely powerful and forbidden magic, and can drive their readers mad. If someone is both smart and stable enough to read and comprehend it without going insane, they will still become detached from the world, realising that humanity is insignificant of the cosmic scale. The most notable one is Ã‰migrÃ© Manuscript, a book so evil, it's shaped as a skull. Its magic can bring someone Back from the Dead, something attempted in all four games of the series. Unfortunately, most attempts end up as grotesque Eldritch Abominations. It also can control time and grant eternal life. Pulse Tract is used to summon a god from the soul of the Earth. It's known as Seraphic Radiance, and when it appears it destroys all of Shanghai, and then subjects our hero to The Mother of All Mind Rapes. R'lyeh Text (mistranslated as "Codex of Lurie" in the first game) can be used to reactivate an extraterrestrial beacon to summon a godlike alien from 4800000 lightyears away. These aliens are so powerful, they are described as being as far above humanity as humanity is above insects. One of them serves as the first game's final boss, and is referred to as "Meta-God".
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): Back during WWII the protective magical barrier around Europe was dropped temporarily in order for Paula von Gunther to read from an unsettling magical tome in a cathedral under Hitler's watch and turn herself into a powerful monster.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_1a4129c	comment	Dead Birds: Todd and William find one while searching the house. It contains a ritual for raising the dead, which apparently involves the torture and murder of many. Hollister performed this ritual to resurrect his wife, who had fallen ill and died. Instead of getting her back, he let something else in that turned his children into monsters.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon: The Red Book of Appin belonging to Baalmon's X-Antibody form. The regular one is just a Great Big Book of Everything, but thanks to the X-Antibody the book has come alive. It will offer people the knowledge contained within it, provided they can best a trail first. If they fail, the Book will attack before Baalmon does and eat them, making them a part of itself.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_1beda93b	comment	The Book of E-Ville in Sluggy Freelance, which is hinted to have power and backstory far more significant than its cutesy title suggests. Also downplayed and parodied with the Book of Ro'thar-Niece, the counterpart of the Book of E-Ville in an alternative dimension where everything is so good and peaceful that the worst descriptor they can apply to things is "rather nice". The Destroyer Deity, K'Z'K, is a Sealed Evil in a Can locked within The Book of E-Ville. While the world is intended to be destroyed every so often as part of a cycle, K'Z'K has no respect for the appointed time, so The Book was intended to keep him locked away in the meantime. The Book was originally intended to disguise it's true nature by being filled with nothing but useless spells to make it look like a Joke Item, but K'Z'K played to the ego of one of the book's keepers and got her to fill it with lots of dangerous spells that could end the world even without K'Z'K's help.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_1c25dba1	comment	The Book of Condemnation in Suikoden V and Alhazred, the recruitable character who is looking for it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_1dd6d08b	comment	The first Care Bears movie has a book that might have been considered a plain old spellbook, were it not for the fact that it also contains the head of a malevolent spirit that coaxes its owner to cast more and more evil spells.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_1e7bc8cd	comment	In the lore of Sonic X: Dark Chaos, the Bible and the Koran are depicted as this, driving people to madness and being able to summon Lovecraftian horrors with the right versions.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_1ed66ab2	comment	In the webnovel DO NOT TAKE THE SHELLS, Jonathan Vaun's bookcase contained several of these. One of them is named "The Ancient Art of Daemonism", and another "A Window into Providence".
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_1f630f72	comment	Dark Souls III: A few of these pop up among the spellbooks you can find for your teachers to interpret. The Deep Divine Tome and the Londor Divine Tome both terrify Irina of Carim; she'll reluctantly interpret them for you if you ask, but if you do, she'll eventually be corrupted to the point that she can't even interact with you anymore, constantly talking about "little creatures that never stop biting in the darkness". Cornyx of the Great Swamp will outright refuse to touch the Grave Warden Pyromancy Tome, recognizing its inherent darkness. Karla will interpret any of the dark tomes for you with no negative consequences (she's already heavily associated with darkness), though she really doesn't like looking at Divine Tomes, dark or not. For bonus points, Karla is a Child Of Dark whose day has come and gone; she can provide a non-sanity-destroying translation because horrific truths about the cosmos are her bread and butter.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_1f76648	comment	Grimoires in A Certain Magical Index seem to be this, considering that they allow the user to gain tremendous power, but the results range from (so far) Blood from the Mouth at best and Body Horror at worst. Only the eponymous Index of Prohibited Books has been able to read the grimoires and store them in her head, since she has no mana to power the grimoires. One of the grimoires within Index is the Necronomicon, which was originally just a fictional book until some magicians decided they wanted to bring the Cthulhu Mythos to life and defictionalized it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_20bac83b	comment	The plot of the movie The Ninth Gate (based on The Club Dumas, above) revolves around a book called De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis ("The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows"). All known copies of the text were burned along with their author Aristide Torchia because it was an adaptation of an earlier work called the Delomelanicon (the Invocation of Darkness), supposedly co-written by the Devil himself and contained clues on how to summon him in person.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_211944a9	comment	In Split Second (My Little Pony), Sparkle possessed several of the books in a series of these tomes. Interestingly, the book itself is alive.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2138ed5f	comment	The events of Castlevania: Harmony of Despair take place in the Grimoire, a book chronicaling the collective history of the namesake dwelling of Dracula.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_216ce46	comment	The Freeport Venture: The Black Codex is an infamous grimoire written by a cabal of warlocks and lunar cultists during the Lunar Rebellion and containing information on every form of Black Magic in existence, including things like necromancy, Mind Control and demonology. Most people don't believe it's anything more than a myth, a belief the Equestrian government encourages to cut down on the number of would-be warlocks trying to get their hooves on it. In Freeport Venture: Auction Night, a copy surfaces... at an auction house in the local Wretched Hive. Sunset spends the rest of the story trying to get before a known warlock facilitator does. Uniquely, the Codex is not magically enchanted, cursed, or even difficult to use, which is exactly what makes it so dangerous; Most dark magic books like this either requires a fair bit of knowledge of the subject to understand, or is full of magical traps and curses. The Black Codex is an introductory primer to the most horrific Black Magic imagineable.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2192aeb3	comment	The Fire Emblem series has a few of these â€” in fact there's an entire school of magic that is dedicated to using the magic in these kind of tomes, the aptly named "Dark" magic (Although, because Dark Is Not Evil, but many think it is, some good dark-wielders call it "Elder magic".) Effects from delving deep into the dark arts often includes insanity and corruption â€” whereas the spells themselves are known for having interesting effects such as; Stealing one's life force (Nosferatu), Summoning a horde of voracious insects (Swarm), Exposing someone's soul to the torment of hell (Hell), making someone explode in a shower of blood (Balberith)... but the most true to the form of this trope would be the tome of Loptyr in Genealogy of the Holy War â€” a book containing the power of a Child-Eating Dark God. Upon reading it, Prince Julius went completely insane, murdered his mother (he tried to kill his adorable sister too, but she was warped away before he could)... its effect: Halving the stats of anyone who challenges the wielder, unless said opponent is wielding the tome's opposite number, Naga)
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_231c3738	comment	Saviour of the Souls in The Hazing; an age old book of blood rituals rescued from the ruins of an corrupt ancient monastery by Professor Kapps' ancestors that allows the possessor to travel between the dimensions of life and death to return from the grave through a rite of possession.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_232c220c	comment	Inquisitor Carrow writes one as a present for Hermione Granger.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_259201aa	comment	Truth Seekers: The Praecepta Mortuorum, a book made of human skin and written in human blood, contains forbidden spells that deal with human souls and human sacrifices.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The show parodied it in the first Treehouse of Horror episode, where one segment features an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven". When the line about reading the quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore comes around, we find Homer reading a book titled "Forgotten Lore, Volume III". In another episode, Lisa is cleaning out the garage and finds a thick leather bound book. She begins to read the Latin and behind her, a demon begins to form. However the horror is foiled when she tosses the book aside in favor of Mad Libs. And again in Halloween special III where Bart and Lisa find a book in the library's "Occult section". Bart attempts to bring back their dead cat Snowball but end up raising the dead in the human cemetery, which was right next to the pet cemetery. Also the members of Springfield's Republican Party read from the Necronomicon.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2675c915	comment	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: It appears in Season 4. Like its comic book counterpart, the book is centuries old and completely indestructible. It is also able to alter its contents according to the skills of the reader, such as changing its text to their first language, and allowing modern-day engineers to create devices far beyond the technology from the book's original time period. It also drives readers insane. When necessity required someone to read the book to save Coulson and Fitz from being trapped between dimensions, the android AIDA volunteered since her processing power would withstand the information overload and she could be rebooted if anything went wrong. The book even changes its text to binary code for her. She saves the day, but it appears to have given her real emotions, overwhelming her and sending her off the rails. Except not, as her seemingly erratic actions were at the order of her creator Dr. Radcliffe, who was corrupted by merely glimpsing the book's contents. In the season finale, it's explained that the Darkhold is able to defy all laws of physics and reality because it's from a different dimension of The Multiverse.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_28184245	comment	In "A Witch Shall Be Born", the title witch did not mind when the magician who raised her drove her off:
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_283b23c1	comment	The Book of Darkness in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's. It managed to open itself despite being chained shut. To power it up, you have to collect the magic power of other people and creatures; if you decline to, it will drain your power instead, slowly killing you. And when all its pages (naturally, there are six hundred and sixty-six of them) are filled, do you think you can wield its power? You're as good as dead, and so is the planet you are on. (The tragedy is that it wasn't originally that way â€” it has been corrupted by people who wanted to use it as a weapon.)
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_28db1c62	comment	The sequel The Last King of Osten Ard has Bishop Fortis' Treatise on the Aetheric Whispers, a book which has been banned by the church since the mysterious disappearance of its author, over two hundred years ago. The censors' copy is kept apart from other books.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_29362ae	comment	John Barnes's One for the Morning Glory features Highly Unpleasant Things It Is Sometimes Necessary to Know and worse, Things That Are Not Good to Know at All.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_296f0b5	comment	Blaseball had the first season conclude with an election decree that opened of the "Forbidden Book". This was immediately followed by a solar eclipse, the umpires' eyes turning white, a player being spontaneously incinerated, and Hellmouth swallowing Moab, heralding the start of the DISCIPLINE ERA. (Most of the Book is redacted, but just enough is readable to be seriously worrying.)
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2ade1ae9	comment	A flavor text in the Nobilis Third Edition rulebook says that A Philosophy of Treason, a book detailing the case for serving the Excrucians, has many fake copies that will remove the eyes of any who read and fill their eye sockets with worms. Oh, and the genuine article is almost as bad.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2b0ada22	comment	And again in WandaVision, used by Agatha Harkness. And then by Wanda herself (whose already fragile sanity is completely shattered by its effects) and the titular doctor in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. This one is implied to be a copy, hence it's different look from the previous appearances. This one can be destroyed. However, the original writings are revealed to cover the inside of the temple of Cthon, the first demon, and the Darkhold itself merely a transcription of these.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2b113e02	comment	The Mummy (1999) had the Book of the Dead, which unleashed the title monster upon the world, as well as its good cousin, which stripped him of his undead immortality and made him mortal.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2b70efd4	comment	World of Darkness: Mage: The Awakening has numerous books called grimoires, where a mage inscribes all their knowledge of a spell (literally; it leaves their mind forever) so that others can learn it more easily; notably, the mage who wrote the grimoire can relearn it from that same book, and anyone who already knows the spell can use the book as a reference, making the spell easier to cast. Needless to say, some grimoires are less than wholesome, including: the book of the life of an Atlantean prophet that turns those who study it enough into a psychic clone of said prophet; a bestiary on Abyssal beings that leads the mage who reads it enough to believe that he's uncovered an important secret and that all his friends have turned on him; and the book that contains both normal spells and spells that draw upon the Abyss but doesn't tell you which are which. Grimoire of Grimoires is an entire sourcebook dedicated to these. The worst of these are The Final Spell Of Eli Ben-Menachem, The Invisible Codex, The Tome of Power, and The Prince of 100,000 Leaves. The first is a seemingly-sentient spell that teaches you how to summon reversed forms of Goetia symbolizing reversed Virtues into your enemies' minds, which are actually Abyssal entities who will escape. The second is an Abyssal creature in the form of a Tome of Eldritch Lore, which actually takes that form to lure power-hungry mages so it can eat their souls. The third is also a gulmoth, but the tempting devil to the Codex's Honey Trap, teaching its readers inherently Abyss-tainted versions of incredibly destructive magic designed specifically for them to have talent with, and when the mage is fully corrupted summons a different gulmoth to continue their education. The last is the heart of an Annunaki, one of the living alternate universes that compose the Abyss, that takes the form of 100,000 pages detailing a twisted alternate history for the world, which will then proceed to become real â€” the catch is that it's not fully written or put together. Interesting subversion: The Ialdabaoth Codex, besides being incredibly hard to spell, seems like it at first, being an Abyssal bestiary that gradually drives its readers to paranoia and the summoning of its contents... except that's the precise opposite of the book's intended function. It's actually a prison for the various Eldritch Abominations it describes (it scours the mind of its new prisoners and writes an entry based on its findings), and the madness is the result of them trying to get out. The writers of the book were actually pretty nice people, and a story hook presented involves reconstructing their Legacy. Not quite as bad as the others, but still quite thoroughly horrid, is the Hildebrandt Recording, a recording of a seance that contacted an entity of the Abyss. The disc is sometimes described as feeling tacky and unclean, the spells it can teach are profoundly disturbing at best, it brings misfortune to its holders, is actively sought out by profoundly vile individuals (whom it seems to actively influence), and on top of everything else, it should not exist. Hildebrandt should not have been able to even contact the entity, his equipment should not have been able to record its sounds, and for the recording to become a grimoire is just not possible, explicitly stated as such. It violates every principle of reality just by existing. Werewolf: The Apocalypse The game has the Chronicle of the Black Labyrinth which was written by an insane Black Spiral Dancer Kinfolk describing the lore of the Wyrm. Reading it slowly corrupts the reader to the power of the Wyrm. An expansion book, Warriors of the Apocalypse, includes a Bane character named Tsannik. His human host summoned him using an ill-gotten book of sorcery.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2be70437	comment	In Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders, Merlin, of all people, gives one of these to a snobby critic, of all people, to try to persuade him that magic is real. As a result, the critic summons a demon, sets fire to a cat, almost crushes himself and eventually manages to provide his wife with the baby she desires by, in a bizarre kind of "reverse incest", turning himself from her husband into her son. Naturally, Merlin thinks this is a jolly delightful jape.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2c8f31bd	comment	An episode of Dave the Barbarian had Dave take up cooking and finding what turns out to be an eldritch cookbook that produces angry sentient food. Then he decides to take up knitting and finds an eldritch knitting guide, and the episode ends with the family being chased by a giant, angry ball of yarn.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2c9a932f	comment	Vampirella: Giacomini's Apocrypha. Originally called the "De Fascino De Libre Tres", the book was written by a Catholic bishop named Vairo who was an expert occultist that understood the "fascination of evil". The book was stolen by one of Vairo's priests, Domenico Giacomini, who was jealous of the attention Vairo's work received in Rome. Forming a cult known as the Council of Worms, Giacomini took the ideas contained in the book further than anything Vairo had come up with and basically transformed it into an instruction manual on how to traffick with demons. The Council of Worms were eventually killed by the Cestus Dei, a covert operations force formed by Pope Clement X. It was believed the Apocrypha was destroyed by the Cestus Dei, however, some of the information within it survived and was scattered across the globe. Von Kreist intends to use it to restore his original body.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2d78bbc6	comment	In Sinestro Corps War, the Sinestro Corps have the Book of Parallax, which contains everything every Sinestro Corpsman has ever done or will do in the name of causing fear.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2e80e66f	comment	A Diplomatic Visit: The seventh chapter of the fourth story, The Diplomat's Life, mentions the "Inspiration Manifestation" spellbook from canon, and that Rarity encountered it while Twilight was on her world tour. Thankfully, Princess Celestia noticed what was happening in time and stepped in to deal with it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2e833eb	comment	The "Black Book" in Fallout: Equestria. It contains dark, necromantic zebra magic designed to conjure flesh-eating megaspells, the creation of Soul Jars, Blood Magic and other nasty things. Notably, it has a malicious aura that both tempts the owner to read the book, along with other maddening effects; one courier chewed his hooves off.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	The My Little Pony G1 Comics contains The Book of Horrors, an ancient tome kept locked away in Majesty's Secret Room in Dream Castle. In the comic story Ponyland in Danger it is consulted by Majesty and Gypsy after they both see ominous indications of an ancient evil approaching in the form of a red cloud.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_300b0c1f	comment	In I Shall Wear Midnight, the Bonfire of the Witches, written on behalf of the Cunning Man, is so full of his hatred of witches that a copy of it allows a curse ineptly attempted against a witch to work simply by being in its proximity, and later almost allows said creature to manifest into the world through its pages before it's pressed shut very decisively.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_309df9ea	comment	Atop the Fourth Wall has the Absent Grimoire, which told of several outer gods such as the Entity and the King of Worms.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: The Consortium is in possession of an ancient scroll called The Codex, which contains 12 chapters written in an ancient codified language. Its contents are a source of information and different hypotheses such as the existence and details regarding Hinterland. Major corroborate findings from The Consortium informed them of a mythical weapon called The Artifact, hidden away in Hinterland that might be the key to destroy LIMEN.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_31677f1c	comment	He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) and She-Ra: Princess of Power had a few of these, including a spellbook that would summon Daimar the Demon, in the He-Man episode "Daimar the Demon", and the Ancients' Book of Spells in "A Bird in the Hand". In the She-Ra series, Shadow Weaver got ahold of the Eldritch Book of Spells in "The Eldritch Mist". Then Madam Razz had to locate the Nameless Glowing Book to find a spell to get She-Ra out of the Sixth Dimension in "Three Courageous Hearts".
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_31aedabc	comment	Loosely based on Cthulhu Mythos, several tomes are appear in Demonbane. In unusual fashion, the original copy of each grimoire appear as a young girl instead of a book (and Necronomicon is the heroine nonetheless).
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_331e00a	comment	Borderlands 3's DLC, "Love, Guns and Tentacles" has a sidequest that parodies it with the Nibblenomicon: the cookbook of the damned.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_334120fc	comment	The Datasphere of 8-Bit Theater. What else it can do is a little vague (BM looked into it once as RM mentioned "knockers" and apparently the experience was "very soft"), but when Red Mage took a long look at it without interruption, he gained the knowledge of how to destroy anything that could ever exist. Sarda powered on the four orbs apparently couldn't exist, so what appeared to be a masterful plan turned into a Batman Gambit that nearly ended the world. Only a nine-year-old brick joke saved the world from Chaos.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_343ad13c	comment	The eponymous book in The Babadook. A pop-up book, believe it or not, one which seems to be a bedtime story for kids, the book is not just magic and cursed, but alive, sort of. The monster seems to become more and more sapient the more the book is read, and stronger the more disbelieving adults deny that it's real, tormenting children and parents alike. Tearing the book up only makes it come back with a scarier story, and while burning it prevents that, it doesn't get rid of the monster; the protagonist has to resort to other methods to finally crush it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_34ce47ab	comment	The "CTHULHU discs" in Twilight Heroes serve this function in the digital age.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_3565350a	comment	The Gran Grimoire in the Ivalice Alliance miniseries. In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, it's a magickal tome that transforms the sleepy town of St. Ivalice into the actual Ivalice. In Vagrant Story, it's not a book per se â€” every stone in the city of LeÃ¡ Monde is inscribed with ancient Kildean runes, turning the city into the ultimate codex of magick.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_3583b777	comment	Eternal Darkness revolves around the stories of The Chosen Many of Mantorok, as written in the eponymous Tome of Eternal Darkness; to unlock new chapters, Alexandra has to find missing pages. The book itself is larger than a dictionary, bound in human hide and detailed with shrunken bones, and remains hidden in an extradimensional room full of statues and with a floor of screaming faces, held inside a huge skeletal hand. Anyone who gains access to the Tome can read it regardless of language and literacy level and possession of it allows for use of rune-based magicks. The Tome also works as a Lore Codex, and in a nice bit of Gameplay and Story Integration, it serves as the menu system.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_372152a	comment	The original Weird Tales circle featured many books of dark lore other than the Necronomicon, including: Clark Ashton Smith's tome of choice, the Liber Ivonis or the Book of Eibon; Robert E. Howard's Nameless Cults or Die Unaussprechliche Kulten â€” Lovecraft thought the latter was German for "unspeakable cults", but it's actually closer to "unpronounceable", which given the names of the Great Old Ones is probably more appropriate; and Robert Bloch's Cultes des Goules and De Vermis Mysteriis, the latter of which is featured in Stephen King's short story and Lovecraft homage "Jerusalem's Lot", in The Eyes of The Dragon, and in Revival, in which it is claimed to be the "real" book that inspired Lovecraft's Necronomicon. The Call of Cthulhu RPG gave us the Massa di Requiem par Shuggay, an "opera" that is impossible to perform, namely because an uninterrupted performance will lead to Azathoth being summoned midway through the second act, leading to everyone going mad and The End of the World as We Know It.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_390e5c71	comment	The Shannara Series by Terry Brooks has the Ildatch, an Artifact of Doom dating back to the war between the good Fae and the Demons. Filled with dark magics, it corrupted the rebel Druid Brona into becoming the Warlock Lord, transformed his followers into the Skull Bearers, and later transforms a new group of people into the Mord Wraiths. Destroying it serves as the main plot in The Wishsong of Shannara. Unbeknownst to all, the book is alive, reasoning, and the Big Bad of the entire trilogy. It nearly turns Brin, the main character, into a monster, before her brother brings her to her senses, enabling its destruction.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_3b34143f	comment	These are apparently pretty commonplace in Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class includes The Monster Book of Monsters as required reading. The book is a sentient beast that will bite you if you try to open it. The only way to safely read it is to stroke its spine, which will soothe it and convince it to open for you. Hagrid apparently thinks this is common knowledge and is genuinely befuddled on the first day of class to see that none of the students have figured this out and have tied their textbooks shut in various ways. They are a pain in the ass for the owner of Flourish & Botts to stock too, with him having to keep them in a cage so they can't hurt customers. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: The graffitied copy of Advanced Potion-Making contains margin notes by someone called the "Half-Blood Prince" (who turns out to be Severus Snape), which provide a lot of useful advice to Harry on how to make potions â€” better than the textbook itself (which frustrates Hermione to no end). It also contains a lot of other spells, and when Harry tries one labeled "For Enemies" on Draco Malfoy, he nearly kills him from the ensuing blood loss. The Restricted Section in Hogwarts' library contains books that more traditionally fit the "Eldritch" role, having to be chained to the shelves or screaming when they're opened. Early on, Ron warns Harry of books that burn people's eyes out, that are impossible to stop reading, or that make you speak in limericks for the rest of your life. The protagonists find that it's pretty easy to get a professor to write a permission slip for you to go in there; they do this as early as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to learn how to make a Polyjuice Potion (and get Lockhart to sign off the form under the guise of getting an autograph). Oddly enough, when Harry learns about Horcruxes in Half-Blood Prince, Hermione scours almost the entire restricted section to learn what they are and finds one reference, in a book titled Magick Moste Evile (which apparently makes a "ghostly wail" when closed), and mentions them only to say that they are so evil they will not be discussed. It is later revealed that the school does have a book which explains about Horcruxes in detail, called Secrets of the Darkest Art. However, Dumbledore confiscated it from the Restricted Section years ago, and is implied to have done this because Tom Riddle used the book as a reference to create not only one, but seven Horcruxes. Chamber of Secrets: Tom Riddle had a diary, which talks back to you when you write in it. It possesses Ginny to sic a Basilisk to petrify muggleborn students, and convinces her to open the eponymous chamber, and it nearly kills her and replaces her with the teenaged Tom. Said Tom Riddle turns out to be the future Lord Voldemort, and Harry finds out much later that the diary was a Horcrux.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_3d90ba40	comment	The Barabbas Manuscript from The Awakening of a Magus. An ancient tome with five original copies, with Draco's grandfather giving him the presumably only surviving copy. Among other things, it has hidden text visible only to descendants of the demon Klaatu, and absent in all secondary copies.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_3f9c6934	comment	The Club Dumas by Arturo PÃ©rez-RevertÃ© reproduces the nine illustrations that provide the clues to invoke the Devil in the tome of eldritch lore (De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis â€” everything occult sounds better in Latin), repeated each time the protagonist finds one of the three surviving copies of the Novem Portis, as each one has a subtly different set of illustrations. There is a Twist Ending that hinges on these differences. It is little surprising that these illustrations are supposedly reprinted from the fabled Delomelanicon, or Invocation of Darkness, which legend has it was co-written by Lucifer himself.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_4143637b	comment	The Grimoire in Blood Ties (2007) is used several times to summon demons. Henry has his own copy, "confiscated" from a bunch of Medieval cultists, and uses it to sabotage summoning rituals.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_415152e0	comment	Big Tits Zombie also features a version of the Necronomicon, which summons and controls zombies.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files typically subverts the trope, as the White Council encourages the spread of books of dark rituals â€” they only have a limited amount of power to draw from, so mass publication tends to dilute them into uselessness. But in some cases, there are works which contain knowledge that's too dangerous to know regardless of the power of the book itself. In Dead Beat, "The Word of Kemmler" is a book written by the necromancer Kemmler, a major Big Bad who was responsible for a whole mess of atrocities and other badness throughout history, up to and including World War I. Yes, all of it. Dead Beat also features Der Lied der Erlking, a collection of poetry, art, and prose dedicated to the Erlking, head of The Wild Hunt. Among all that poetry is a summoning rite meant to bring the Erlking and the Hunt into the world.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-140 is a modern hardcover book entitled A Chronicle of the Daevas, detailing the history of the Daevites, an ancient, extinct, and preternaturally evil human civilization. Readers find the contents simultaneously repulsive and fascinating, but the worrying part is that it absorbs any ink (or, preferably, human blood) it comes in contact with to expand and rewrite its contents, and the really worrying part is that those expansions alter history to match, with new artifacts and ruins appearing in old dig sites. When first discovered, the book stated that the Daevites had been wiped out around 200 BCE by Qin Shi Huang; now the book says they were only temporarily defeated, and that the Daevites continued to thrive until Genghis Khan crushed them, some 1,400 years later. Worst of all, there are multiple copies of the Chronicle out there, and any one of them that expands itself updates all the rest. The Foundation is very interested in finding out where these other copies are before the Daevites can retroactively insert themselves into the modern era. Turned on its head with SCP-6140: The entire story of the country of necromancers and flesh sorcerers was the invention of a racist English author, who felt the actual history of Daevastan was woefully boring compared to their bloody myths, and basically wrote the book by stretching some legendarily horrible incidents and extrapolating them into a civilization where they were the norm, instead of the catalyst to have the perpetrators immediately removed from power. The author then used unknown magic to wipe out the real country and allow his fantasy version to leak into reality. However, when the disciples of said civilization finally completed the ritual to bring "the True Empire" forth, they only succeded in releasing the real Daevastan, a perfectly normal Central Asian republic with a colorful mythology.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_435ad625	comment	The book comes back in Runaways (2017), used by Morgan Le Fay.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_4368039f	comment	Supergirl (1984): Selena can be seen perusing a large, heavy, leatherbound copy of the Necronomicon and reading up on summoning elemental demons right before Supergirl crashes into her lair. One black, horned skull-and-crossbones symbol is drawn on the red front cover.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_4522fd1	comment	The Necronomicon and The King in Yellow exist in the Whateley Universe, as does The First Book of the Kellith. Unfortunately for the future of said universe, that particular book was actually published as a horror novel, and it was a best seller.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_455ede40	comment	Super Paper Mario has the Dark Prognosticus. The game's intro states that "The book held frightful secrets not meant for people's eyes." Later in the game, it's revealed that Lord Blumiere was reborn as Straw Nihilist Count Bleck upon first opening the book. There's a reason nobody was supposed to look at it: opening the book sets in motion The End Of All Worlds As We Know It, and makes you continue flipping pages until all worlds end. The Dark Prognosticus is said to know everything that has happened or will happen, with the end of the world fittingly being recorded at the end of the book. According to lore, wars have even been fought over the book, only to realize the book had said wars documented already. And, perhaps even worse, the Dark Prognosticus is not destroyed or locked up at the game's end. It's simply stated to have "faded back into history". Another book, the Light Prognosticus, was written later. Unlike its darker cousin, this one predicts Mario & Co. stopping the end of everything. To a minor degree, the Ghost's Diary in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. The book itself will not kill you for opening it, but his owner asks you to not read it. And if you do read it, he will know immediately. And he will not be happy about it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_47ba573b	comment	In the Mouth of Madness features the popular horror novelist Sutter Cane, whose last book is So Bad Its Horrible, if inexplicably well received by the public. Still managed to have a movie made, which was almost as well received as the book and made quite an impact on audiences around the world.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_48c2633f	comment	F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series has the Compendium of Srem, which translates itself into your native language for your cans-of-evil-unsealing convenience.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_49a88435	comment	In Final Fantasy XII, you can get two Grimoires, titled Togail and Aidhed, from certain creatures you kill. Their descriptions say that they contain spells respectively capable of destroying Ivalice and snuffing out all life; to you, they only serve as Shop Fodder.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_4a2ff29b	comment	Evil Dead featured a book called Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, which, when read, resurrected a bunch of evil Kandarian spirits. In the first movie and the beginning of the second, it was called the Naturom Demonto. By the time of Army of Darkness, it was just called the Necronomicon.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun has the "Tomegathericon" an item which allows the party member who equips it to take the "Dark Mage" classes, and grants powers such as attacking with hellfire, summoning demons and raising zombies. Curiously, the tome is given to the party by a benevolent animistic deity, who asks that they safeguard it until the witch doctor of the tribe that worships the deity has matured enough to be worthy of receiving it (witch doctor also being a benevolent role, when not occupied by an irresponsible teenage apprentice). Note that it was actually called Necronomicon in Japanese. Its English name is also a Shout-Out, and pretty ominous in its own right; "Omega Therion" is the Greek name of The Beast in the Book of Revelations.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_4c56381b	comment	The Binding of Isaac has multiple that appear in library rooms: The damage boosting Book of Belial which increases the chance of a Deal with the Devil, The Book of Revelations, which gives you a soul heart and forces a Horseman of the Apocalypse to fight you instead of a normal floor boss, The Necronomicon, which kills all the enemies in the room. The Telepathy for Dummies, which gives you homing shots for a room. The Book of Shadows, which grants 5 seconds of invincibility. And in Rebirth, How to Jump makes an appearance.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_4e2ce9b	comment	The Sister Verse and the Talons of Ruin has the eponymous Sister Verse, a book that eats any reality it is written in and assimilates it into its stories.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_4e549f11	comment	Dreamscape: Vampire Lord discovers one called 'Worlds of Darkness', written by Melinda, in his bookshelf. This is what clues him in that his "humble" home is actually Melinda's castle, which had somehow been transported to the Underworld.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_4f14e537	comment	The New Adventures of Invader Zim: Season 2 Episode 9 features the Ikiwikinomicon, a blatant parody of the Necronomicon which when active is capable of transforming people into mindless monsters. The sixth entry of the non-canon spinoff New Adventures: Mature Edition features the Tome of the Abyss, the book that Gaz uses to summon Kastrofi after the writing changes itself from some ancient alphabet into English for her to more easily read.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_4f7a49d9	comment	The Book of Characters in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World might count, though ultimately it's just a throwaway MacGuffin rather than any major influence on the world. Its main significance to the four is that after George destroys it to save lives, they're fined 150,000 Swords and threatened with jail/endless pursuit if they don't pay the fine. They spend several days struggling to get the money.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Rose from Homestuck has the "Grimoire for summoning the zoologically dubious". She refused to use it as her weapon because it sounded like a bad idea. However, that didn't prevent her from using it in alchemy to make the Thorns of Oglogoth, which she does use as weapons even though no sane person should.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_5251e609	comment	Arkham Horror, being Cthulhu Mythos The Board Game, features the usual library of eldritch tomes such as Unaussprechlichen Kulten or The King in Yellow. You generally burn movement points to read the tome, make a Lore check, and gain spells, skills, or some other benefit at the cost of sanity.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_52eecc0c	comment	Kyle, a 12-year-old boy wizard from Fanboy and Chum Chum, wields the Necronomicon.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_53435bc5	comment	The Codex Umbra utilized by Maxwell in Don't Starve. It can summon shadows of various sorts. In-game, it creates a doppelganger of Maxwell to work alongside him, at the cost of sanity and some Nightmare Fuel. In the backstory, however, its consequences are far more dire...
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_539a46c3	comment	Forbidden Scrollery of the Touhou series is entirely about these books; it's even in the title. Kosuzu Motoori is a human bookseller and lender who collects them and has the magical ability to read them. Most of the relevant ones have youkai sealed inside. Or give birth to youkai by making you think about them. Or are youkai themselves, in book form. Also, the Grimoire of Alice, which is always sealed up. The one time Alice used the book, she jumped from a 3rd stage boss into a Superboss. However, she hasn't used it since then.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Gramma", Georgie finds the Necronomicon from which his grandmother, a powerful witch, gets her power. It contains several references to Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_545c3f9f	comment	The three books in Dance of the Butterfly could be, but their actual use is never fully explained. They are highly sought after and guarded closely by those in possession of them.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern: In Sinestro Corps War, the Sinestro Corps have the Book of Parallax, which contains everything every Sinestro Corpsman has ever done or will do in the name of causing fear. Later on we see the Book of the Black, penned in the tainted black tears of the undead Guardian Scar.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_557434b6	comment	Several of Zexion's lexicons in 358/2 Days at the very least have names that invoke this trope such as "Cursed Manual", "Eldritch Esoterica" and "Indescribable Lore".
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_562e8a6e	comment	The end of the first act of Max Payne has Max, while closing in on Jack Lupino, coming across his collection of occult books, such as "Necronomicon", "Witchcraft", "Paradise Lost", the "Malleus Maleficarum" and "De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis", as well as stacks of horror videos and Ouija boards. Subverted in that the books don't contain any kind of dark magic at all, but are a sign that Lupino has become obsessed with the occult and has lost his mind due to being hopped up on Valkyr.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_5752f55e	comment	The various magical tomes from GrimGrimoire. With every new "Groundhog Day" Loop cycle Lillet goes through, they become even more powerful, until she's capable of summoning dragons, golems, and arch-demons.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_58cf4968	comment	In Tales of Phantasia, the summoner Claus main weapons are books, including the Necronomicon, Liber Ivonis, Requiem (for Shaggai), The King in Yellow, Celaeno fragments, and pretty much any other fictional grimoire from the Cthulhu Mythos. The GBA version has alternative spellings (or poor translations) of said books. Also, these books apparently weigh a ton, since Claus can use them to smack around monsters.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_59215319	comment	In Persona 2, the In-Laqetti. Somewhat deconstructed in which the entire thing's a sham-but the rumors sparked by its release aren't, which jibe with Sumaru City's powers to bring all of them into reality.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_59c939c6	comment	A comedic variation in Nodwick, where the scroll of Things Man Was Not Meant to Know causes heads to explode... if they're men. Women who read it are not only fine, they gain insight into the male mind (such that one had a fit of laughter and couldn't stop cracking up on seeing a man, knowing what he was sensitive about).
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_5aa392c7	comment	The Book of Changes from Ghost Whisperer.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_5b075d7c	comment	The book returns in Fable III with a more interesting quest line, which involves getting the book for the ghosts of the two brothers from the last game, and one of them going mad with power.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_5bd0554b	comment	Books of dark magic and eldritch lore appear in Warcraft games. Notable ones include the Book of Medivh, which was used to summon the demon lord Archimonde, the Compendium of Shadows, and Lexicanum Demonica, which is said to contain the name of every demon in existance.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Soul Eater has the Book of Eibon, written by a sorcerer centuries ago. It contains the information Arachne used to create the original Demon Weapons, and to turn herself into a pseudo-Kishin. It is currently being used by Noah, who impersonated Eibon, to collect anything he sees as interesting. Such as Death the Kid. Which is a shout-out to the fictional tome (aka the Liber Ivonis) from the Cthulhu Mythos (see below). The book itself is so evil that it's indexed by sins, and it currently contains at least one of the worst creatures imaginable, Excalibur. Oh, and there's a Great Old One who bears a striking resemblance to Cthulhu. And later we learn that Noah is actually a construct of the book itself, embodying one of it's chapters, not it's owner. After the first one (Greed) is defeated, the book produces a new one â€” embodiment of chapter of Wrath.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted has numerous examples, but the most infamous might be The Broken-Winged Crane. How bad is it? It isn't even written yet; all the copies that exist are reverse engineered from the perfect version that comes into existence the day the world ends.note It should be noted that time travel is explicitly impossible in the Exalted setting. This has not stopped the imperfect copies from appearing well before the book is written. And seeing as the only canon character to have read the book is implied to have been abducted and mind raped by archdemons, there's a very good chance the book causes it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_5e16d550	comment	Asta's five-leaf clover grimoire in Black Clover hosts a devil from the underworld which is the source of his anti-magic. His grimoire was formed when Licht was overcome by despair after the elf genocide, turning his four-leaf grimoire into a five-leaf.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_609a6378	comment	In Lori Lovecraft, Lori acquires all of her occult expertise and power from a copy of the Necronomicon given to her by the ancient priest Ama Ton for protection in My Favorite Redhead.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_6185255a	comment	"Fragments of the Book of Abdul" and "De Vermis Mysteriis" in the original Alone in the Dark. The first one hurts Carnby, the latter is instant death, unless you stand in the pentagram to read it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_62570927	comment	The Marvel Universe: The tome called The Darkhold was written by the elder (and evil) god Chthon as one of the â€” if not the â€” first books of magic ever. Writing the Darkhold allowed Chthon to influence the very nature of magic itself. It contains a variety of spells, but using one equals sealing your soul to Chthon, and most of them work in really sick and twisted ways. The Darkhold is also known as the Book of Sins because of its corrupting influence. The Book of the Vishanti is said to contain every counter-spell and all defensive magic ever (to be) known, including a spell to free one from the Darkhold's control. (Oddly enough, it doesn't seem to contain the spell to cure vampirism, which is in the Darkhold.) It also contains a lot of useful lore penned by previous holders of the tome and it seems to explicitly add new pages for current owners to add their own information into its pages. Doctor Strange has an entire library of these.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_638624c8	comment	The Claire Bible in Slayers. Its author is benign enough (one of the good dragon-gods of the Slayers world), but its subject is the Mazoku race and the dragons' war with them, with extra details on the Mazoku-powered black magic and the secret magic of the supreme creator deity. The genuine Claire Bible is also not a book, but a sphere holding infinite knowledge, however many fragments of it are indeed scribed as books and scrolls. In NEXT, the heroes suspect every strange magical effect they hear of to be caused by a Claire Bible manuscript, indicating that even the mundane fragmentary copies can have weird properties.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_64dc8ed9	comment	In Final Fantasy Legend III, the wizard Shar can use the Tablet to free the people of Pureland from the Master's power. Since the whole game is a Shout-Out to the Cthulu Mythos, it's most likely the Necronomicon. In the original Japanese it's a "Goblin corpse".
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_656f325d	comment	In My Little Balladeer, human Thorne has the ''Letters Of Cold Fire'', a particularly nasty example of this trope because it has been enchanted to force any mage reading it to release Discord from his stone prison.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_660d8ee0	comment	In World of Horror, Toshiaki Wakamatsu has a unique item: the Necronomicon, an ancient book that the cultists in his school's club were using to summon the Old Gods, which he stole in the hopes of preventing the end of the world. It starts off with one spell, with up to five more acquired as he levels up: "Aura of Azal-Hoth" (reduces DOOM by 10% when completing a mystery), Krootky's Kill (defeats enemies instantly while increasing DOOM by 15%), F'Thoth Flash (reduces DOOM by 3% in exchange for 15 EXP), Shebbe's Surge (increases all stats by 1 until the end of the mystery while increasing DOOM by 5%), Rage of Ragh-Zull (increases damage inflict on enemies by 1 until the end of the mystery while increasing DOOM by 6%), and Cure of Cthur-Izto (restores 3 Stamina and Reason while increasing DOOM by 7%).
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_67539f71	comment	a string of words: Chapter nine, "summon", involves Trent buying an old book supposedly used for "communing with the forces of Hell", though he doesn't believe it. After a few drinks, he and the rest of the band accidentally end up summoning a demon for real.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_67f8d3b9	comment	Earthdawn Any book about the Horrors can potentially have bad effects on the person who reads it (including the Horrors source book), but probably the straightest example of a Tome of Eldritch Lore is the Book of Scales. According to legend, a group of powerful Horrors captured a dragon and forced it to write a history of the Horrors, using the dragon's own scales as pages and its own blood as ink. The dragon then scattered the scales as far apart as possible to minimize the damage. The Book of Scales allegedly contains valuable information that can be used to battle the Horror, but is so tainted that carrying around a single scale (not even reading it, mind you, just carrying it) will eventually drive a person mad. The Back Story mentions the six Books of Harrow, which tell of the existence and powers of the Horrors. The first man to study them was found dying after ripping out his own eyes and holding them in the fire. Thus far, only one was fully translated; perhaps coincidentally, the Scouring happened a few hundred years later.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder, being an off-shoot of D&D, has its own version of the Book of Vile Darkness known as the Book of the Damned, a repository of all evil knowledge in the planes. Its angelic author, Tabris, wanted to have as accurate an account as possible, so what did he do? He corrupted a part of himself and put it into the tome so it would always update with the most recent information. This lead to the birth of The Voice of the Damned, who guards the Book of the Damned zealously. This act got Tabris barred from Heaven as a result. Fortunately, Tabris also wrote a good tome as well which chronicled the histories of the good-aligned forces called Chronicles of the Righteous. He also wrote a supposedly neutral tome called Concordance of Rivals. Runelord Zutha, an extremely powerful lich from the ancient Thassilonian Empire, made his phylactery into one of these, known as the Gluttonous Tome. He split it into three parts when he foresaw Earthfall, hoping his disciples could reassemble it and ressurect him afterwards. When Earthfall proved more devastating than anticipated, the parts of the book were lost for 10,000 years, until they resurfaced in the present day of the setting. One of the novels details some very intelligent people trying to reunite the book fragments and restore Zutha; an adventure set after those events allows the players the opportunity to use one of the fragments to permanently get rid of him.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe features The Darkhold, one of the classic Marvel tomes. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: It appears in Season 4. Like its comic book counterpart, the book is centuries old and completely indestructible. It is also able to alter its contents according to the skills of the reader, such as changing its text to their first language, and allowing modern-day engineers to create devices far beyond the technology from the book's original time period. It also drives readers insane. When necessity required someone to read the book to save Coulson and Fitz from being trapped between dimensions, the android AIDA volunteered since her processing power would withstand the information overload and she could be rebooted if anything went wrong. The book even changes its text to binary code for her. She saves the day, but it appears to have given her real emotions, overwhelming her and sending her off the rails. Except not, as her seemingly erratic actions were at the order of her creator Dr. Radcliffe, who was corrupted by merely glimpsing the book's contents. In the season finale, it's explained that the Darkhold is able to defy all laws of physics and reality because it's from a different dimension of The Multiverse. The book comes back in Runaways (2017), used by Morgan Le Fay. And again in WandaVision, used by Agatha Harkness. And then by Wanda herself (whose already fragile sanity is completely shattered by its effects) and the titular doctor in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. This one is implied to be a copy, hence it's different look from the previous appearances. This one can be destroyed. However, the original writings are revealed to cover the inside of the temple of Cthon, the first demon, and the Darkhold itself merely a transcription of these.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons has had countless numbers of these over the years and editions, some of which serve as mere MacGuffins for adventure modules, others as potent magical items characters can make use of. If one is of a magical turn of thought, caution should be taken when putting pen to paper. The Book of Vile Darkness is a catalogue of dark knowledge and despicable deeds, expanded upon by a series of evil scholars over the millennia, leaving the book so tainted that nature abhors its presence and the tome gradually corrodes whatever it rests against. Evil characters can gain powerful abilities from studying it â€” and non-Evil characters run the risk of having their alignment flip to Neutral Evil by attuning to the thing â€” but the book demands constant acts of evil from its current bearer, and will disappear to find a new one if it isn't satisfied. Even if the tome is destroyed, it will eventually re-form somewhere in the multiverse As Long as There Is Evil. The Book of Vile Darkness was in earlier editions of the game dedicated specifically to evil priests, with the Libram of Ineffable Damnation being a wizard-oriented companion artifact. Good Counterparts of both books are the Book of Exalted Deeds and the Libram of Gainful Conjuration, while the Libram of Silver Magic was intended for Neutral readers. Both the Book of Vile Darkness and Book of Exalted Deeds were eventually Defictionalized as sourcebooks for utterly evil and exceptionally good characters, respectively. The Codex of the Infinite Planes is one of the oldest artifacts in D&D, and one of the most powerful. Its lead sheets are bound in an obsidian cover, and the book is so large it takes two strong men to barely lift it. Those who study the tome can use its magic to summon mighty fiendish servants, raise the dead, or open a portal to any place on any plane, and prolonged use will eventually allow one to transcend mortality (sometimes in the worst way). Unfortunately, disasters both natural and supernatural seem to follow the Codex, and some who open it for the first time are instantly annihilated on the spot. The book is also sentient and subtly takes control of its "users," compelling them to expand its knowledge until they are drained husks pushed aside by the next to claim the Codex. The Black Scrolls of Ahm are a collection of artifacts concerned with demonic lore, the only records to survive the infamous Tulket nor Ahm's efforts to study the Abyss. They include the Abyssal Mundus, a baroque bundle of maps of the Abyss, the rubric of Tulket nor Ahm, containing pages of demonhide, and the transcriptions of Ergon, fragments of notes assembled by Ahm's apprentice. Possessing some of the Black Scrolls grants passive bonuses to skills or saving throws, and access to powers like teleporting to a specific layer of the Abyss for a set duration or mimicking a demon's spell-like abilities, but each use of them has a small but cumulative chance of causing a demon to appear nearby and attempt to capture the artifact for destruction in the Abyss. To counteract that, the Black Scrolls are enchanted to have a chance to teleport away if a demon gets too close. There's an entire organization, the Black Cult of Ahm, dedicated to studying and protecting the Black Scrolls, which brings them into conflict with both forces of the Abyss and those who view demon lore as inherently corrupting. The Demonomicon of Iggwilv is a similar work, a tome by the archmage Iggwilv that chronicles Abyssal history, some of her new spells, even the histories and true names of demon lords. The Black Scrolls and Demonomicon's devilish equivalent is the Codex of Betrayal, a collection of four books, each with several dozen chapters, totaling multiple thousands of pages, written by the last follower of the God that was murdered and over thrown by Asmodeus. It chronicles the history of the god, the war in heaven, and the creation of devils. The Book of Keeping is not truly a magical tome, but still a dangerous one. This book contains information on summoning powerful yugoloths, even giving the true names of a few of them. No one knows who wrote it â€” given that the author would likely be the yugoloths' most hated enemy, they are likely no longer be alive. At least four copies of the Book exist, although some say as many as seven, and their owners tend to change frequently. The various gods of magic have divine artifacts with this sort of reputation. Vecna's Tome of the Stilled Tongue contains instructions for creating a lich's phylactery, assorted other spells, and mental exercises to improve spellcasting ability at the price of physical endurance, but the dessicated severed tongue nailed to its cover stresses the importance of keeping the Maimed God's secrets. Wee Jas has the Scrolls of Uncertain Provenance, which contain magic for avoiding or even reversing death, but are written in every language imaginable â€” sometimes switching from one to another mid-sentence â€” and studying them runs the risk of driving the reader mad or even cursing them to exist as a ghost for a year and a day. The Tome of Ancient Lore, supposedly "borrowed" from Boccob's library, has a deliberately confusing system of cross-referencing that seems to rearrange itself at will, but a reader has an excellent chance of finding any arcane spell they look for somewhere in the text. In the Forgotten Realms setting, one of the most powerful (if not the most powerful) artifacts are The Nether Scrolls, two sets of 50 scrolls made of gold or platinum sheets written by the mysterious creator races. While they are completely harmless by themselves, they contain a near-limitless amount of magical knowledge; no matter how many times the scrolls have been perused, there is always new information to be gained. In fact, the Netherese grew to be the most dominant magical empire ever known simply by the power of this artifact, with mages that were powerful enough to build flying enclaves and at one point drain the power of the goddess of magic herself, although that didn't end well for them. The Cyrinishad is a book written by the god Cyric, full of craps explaining how Cyric is the most awesome god ever and why you should worship him. Once you start, you can't stop voluntarily and you will become a devout worshiper of Cyric. That and alone isn't that dangerous by itself... except for the fact that it's potent enough to brainwash deities as easily as mortals. One of the reasons Cyric was a Mad God for a long time was because he read the book himself immediately after he finished writing it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_6bef8832	comment	Baldur's Gate III has the Necromancy of Thay, a Necronomicon expy (face and all) detailing the practices of The Magocracy known as Thay. The book is hidden underneath the Blighted Village, and the player has the choice of either deciding No Man Should Have This Power and destroying it with radiant damage or reading it. If you choose to read it, you have to make progressively difficult Wisdom saves and you're rewarded with the Speak With Dead spell as well as a permanent bonus to Wisdom checks. In Act III, using the Tharchiate Vigor book will allow them to read further and unlock the Danse Macabre spell to summon ghouls in combat.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress has a couple of examples that develop during world generation. Slabs containing the true name of a demon, or slabs containing the secrets of life and death can be created by deities, and the art of necromancy can spread further by being copied into books.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 has the Krivbeknih and some other unnamed tome, part of a Shout-Out side quest in both the Point Lookout expansion and the original game, respectively.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers: During the trial episode of season 1, Dr. Orpheus asks the bailiff to swear him in with his own book. A book that bears a suspicious resemblance to the Necronomicon. As the book snarls at the bailiff, Dr. Orpheus warns: "Careful, he's a nibbler!" There's also the Orpheus' tome that Dean reads from in the ambiguously canon Christmas special episode. While perusing it for Christmas stories, Dean accidentally summons The Krampus. Orpheus was also known to read from it while baking gingerbread cookies.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_6cb2d709	comment	In the Harry Potter fic Inter Vivos, Draco's mother gave him a book that contained "a great deal of Dark Arts knowledgeâ€”spells, but also rituals, potions, and many other things, willed into the book by its possessors". When asked a question, it would shift into a book about whatever the subject might be â€” provided you asked it the right questions.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	In the Jackie Chan Adventures fic Queen of All Oni, Jade is searching for the Teachings of Eternal Shadow (a series of three tablets with the Black Magic of the Shadowkhan/Oni on them) so she can increase her own power and keep Jackie and the other heroes from capturing her.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_7260f96d	comment	User Friendly mentions a Necronomicon in one strip, but it turns out it's just Cthulhu's resume a speaking engagement contract for Cthulhu.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_7288f27	comment	A fair chunk of the gameplay of Cultist Simulator consists of buying these from Morland's shop, stealing them from Strathcoyne's library, and studying them to turn them into snippets of lore. The various books you read can, besides eldritch lore, occasionally give you Fascination or Dread, which may lead you down a Sanity Slippage or a Despair Event Horizon respectively
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_72a69873	comment	Heroes of Homeroom C: Damien owns a Necronomicon, which has glowing green eyes, and a glowing green mouth. It's also a sentient, living being capable of speech.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_73b4d4c1	comment	In the Call of Cthulhu RPG, all the books are present, from The Book of Eibon to The Necronomicon. Books will give you knowledge of the occult, but also cause permanent Sanity loss.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_73d7930f	comment	The finale of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, of all series, featured one of these. The fact that its pages remained blank until splattered with the blood of a murdered man really should have been a hint that the ritual it was going to be used for was not a good idea.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_73f86f22	comment	It doesn't have a name, but Winifred's book in Hocus Pocus qualifies. Given to her by Satan himself, it is bound in human flesh and cannot be destroyed by any known method (when the protagonist tries to burn it, it doesn't burn). It's also alive, proven by an eyeball set in the cover, which moves around on its own accord. Among the evil spells that Winnie casts from this book is the curse she places on Thackery which turns him into a cat and makes him unable to die, and a spell which raises her ex-lover Billy from the dead as a zombie; it also contains the recipe for the potion used to keep her and her sisters forever young â€” at the cost of the lives of children.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_74ce3b5b	comment	Beetlejuice has the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, which explains important things to know right after you die, making it a rare instance of a Tome of Eldritch Lore that's actually helpful. Unfortunately, it isn't very reader-friendly, as it reads like stereo instructions.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_750c88d7	comment	In The Butchers, The Book of the Dead is used to cast a resurrection spell that brings the serial killers back from the dead.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_75cfb0cb	comment	The Dark Prognosticus is said to know everything that has happened or will happen, with the end of the world fittingly being recorded at the end of the book. According to lore, wars have even been fought over the book, only to realize the book had said wars documented already.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_76e7de99	comment	In the Forgotten Realms setting, one of the most powerful (if not the most powerful) artifacts are The Nether Scrolls, two sets of 50 scrolls made of gold or platinum sheets written by the mysterious creator races. While they are completely harmless by themselves, they contain a near-limitless amount of magical knowledge; no matter how many times the scrolls have been perused, there is always new information to be gained. In fact, the Netherese grew to be the most dominant magical empire ever known simply by the power of this artifact, with mages that were powerful enough to build flying enclaves and at one point drain the power of the goddess of magic herself, although that didn't end well for them.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_7eceb06d	comment	A couple of optional quests in Fable II have the Normanomicon, the book of the extremely dead. Said quest is a touch underwhelming, as it mostly involves getting the book back from a bunch of undead mooks that two bumbling brothers (Max and Sam) have accidentally summoned.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_83892b47	comment	In Dead Beat, "The Word of Kemmler" is a book written by the necromancer Kemmler, a major Big Bad who was responsible for a whole mess of atrocities and other badness throughout history, up to and including World War I. Yes, all of it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_85aa7b4e	comment	The legendary Old Man Henderson, a.k.a. "the only character to ever win Call of Cthulhu", had a backstory that was an eldritch book of madness on par with anything from the universe of the game he was a character in (which was actually Trail of Cthulhu, but close enough). It was a massive Doorstopper clocking in at 320 pages, justifying all of Henderson's many skills in minute detail. It switched perspective and tone wildly, at one point switching to a script format with stage directions, and at another point switching to German. Henderson's player did not speak German, yet it was both written in his handwriting and grammatically flawless. The player claimed that he felt like did not create it, but that it already existed and was merely waiting for him to give it life. After the campaign was over, the player burned the only copy, claiming it was truly evil.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_86312631	comment	The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: Grimoires. In Fantasyland, these are not spell books generally, but specifically books of evil spells. Many seem to be alive, invariably made of black leather or human skin. They may smoke somewhat when touched. Some may try to entice the curious into reading them, but others stubbornly keep their pages blank. Those really wishing to consult them will need a lot of spells for protection. All Tourists are advised to leave this for a Wizard and or Tour Mentor.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_86772227	comment	Knights of the Dinner Table lampshades this while the knights are playing Scream of Kachoolu (the webcomic strips, bound in Tales from the Vault 5): Brian warns everyone to burn all books they find. This is further compounded by the fact that the last campaign ended messily with Bob's character reading a traveler's guide to Boise.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_86aff994	comment	Power Rangers Lost Galaxy had the Galaxy Book. Tellingly, our heroes found it answering a Distress Call from a ship whose crew had been wiped out be an unnamed monster. It might not be inherently evil, but it has the power to open a portal to the titular Lost Galaxy, a pocket dimension full of deadly space pirates. It also contains the history and location of other creatures and weapons that are nearly as dangerous.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_86dffbc1	comment	Malevolent features a couple, most notably the tome that housed the mysterious Entity (who later started going by John Doe), which directly causes the Inciting Incident of the story.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_88b580f0	comment	Werewolf: The Apocalypse The game has the Chronicle of the Black Labyrinth which was written by an insane Black Spiral Dancer Kinfolk describing the lore of the Wyrm. Reading it slowly corrupts the reader to the power of the Wyrm. An expansion book, Warriors of the Apocalypse, includes a Bane character named Tsannik. His human host summoned him using an ill-gotten book of sorcery.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_8954365d	comment	Almost Night has the book by the previous Dark Lord McEvildude. The cover is bound in human flesh, the ink is made from orc blood, and each page is made from dryads.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_8ba4613a	comment	The Death Note probably counts, or at least the portion containing instructions on how to use it, as itâ€™s a notebook used by Shinigami intended to kill humans.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_8e82c366	comment	In The Real Ghostbusters the Necronomicon and The Nameless Book both fit the bill. In the episode Russian About, Ray mentions that writers like H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith read The Nameless Book for story ideas, but since it's too dangerous for him to read everything he knows about it comes second-hand.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_8f4ee60f	comment	Gray's Sports Almanac from the Back to the Future movies. Technically an ordinary sports almanac purchased in a conventional book store in the then-future year of 2015, this book truly matches the trope when brought 50 years into the past, as it contains information on the outcome of sports events from 1960 to 2000. Biff Tannen is able to use the knowledge to amass a fortune from gambling, eventually creating a Bad Future where he rules. Much like the typical cursed tome, burning it at the end of the second movie is required to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_8f75bc80	comment	Blood is Mine: Geoangular Control is a book about magic and rituals that call upon the power of various eldritch monstrosities.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_9322493f	comment	The crossover series Kamen Rider Zi-O has Twilight Chronicle * é”é™�è‡¨æš¦, lit. Great Calamity Advent Calendar, which records the ascension of time and space tyrant, Oma Zi-O and the events leading up to it. So all the spoilers for Zi-O and the Heisei era Kamen Rider seasons before, making it also a Great Big Book of Everything. Usually it's carried around by Woz, Oma Zi-O's Affably Evil prophet and reffered to simply as the book or Woz's book.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_93a15df3	comment	Oleander from Them's Fightin' Herds has the â€œUnicornomiconâ€�, a cursed and forbidden book which contains a variety of dark magic spells as well as a demonic entity known as FHTNG.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_9431bab8	comment	Sleepy Hollow: Season 1, Episode 4, revolves around the heroes stopping a group of Hessians from retrieving the Lesser Key of Solomon an ancient text capable of opening a portal to Hell and unleashing the 72 demons sealed there by King Solomon. Several episodes near the end of Season 2 involve the Grand Grimoire, a collection of extremely powerful dark magic gathered by John Dee (notably, not to be used, but so he could better understand and combat it). Among other things, it can open portals into the past, or awaken latent magical powers in otherwise normal people.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_9695c0a3	comment	In Betsy the Vampire Queen, the "Book of the Dead" can only be read for a page or two at a time before it starts to mess with your head. As it contains instructions and prophecies for Queen Betsy's entire reign (whether or not it has more unpleasant spells is not mentioned), it also serves as a Great Big Book of Everything.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_97c1f64e	comment	Although Castlevania 64 and it's remake, Legacy of Darkness, have the Necronomicon as their Main Menus, the book itself does not appear in either game.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_986691c8	comment	Fabula Ultima has the Tome of the Gate, a sinister book filled with incomprehensible eldritch scribbles and illustrations of disturbing entities. It can be used to ritualistically open a portal to a realm of cosmic horror during the night of a full moon.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_9aff43ef	comment	As one would expect, Necronomicon is centered on the famous tome from the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: The eponymous Elder Scrolls themselves: The Scrolls combine this with being Tomes of Prophecy and Fate. Referred to as "Fragments of Creation," the Scrolls are of unknown origin and number which simultaneously record past, present, and future events irrefutably; what did happen, what could have happened, what might yet happen. Even the falsehoods in them are true. (Especially the falsehoods, as is pointed out several times in the series.) To the untrained eye, the Scrolls will yield an odd chart that looks like it has constellations on it with odd glyphs printed over or under it. A knowledgeable reader will be able to interpret the Scrolls to a degree, but incompletely, and will be irrevocably struck blind. A well-trained reader, such as a member of the Cult of the Ancestor Moth, will glean much more from the Scroll and will even recover their eyesight... for a finite number of times before their sight is permanently lost. In all of these cases, reading the Scrolls tends to lead to madness for the user. Even those who merely study the Scrolls, never actually using or even handling them, are driven to complete madness with alarming regularity. The power of the Elder Scrolls is so great, their truths so irrefutable, that not even the machinations of a Daedric Prince can overcome them; that's how the curse on the Gray Cowl of Nocturnal is broken in the Oblivion Thieves' Guild questline. In Skyrim, you get to read one yourself to gain knowledge of a Thu'um shout lost to time; it turns out you don't read the scroll, you see events happen as if the scroll was a window to another (possibly alternate) time. Trying to read the scroll outside of the Time-Wound temporarily robs you of vision â€” and the reason you only suffer that much is because you have the soul of a being that exists partially outside of time, not unlike the Elder Scroll itself. Even the dragons like Paarthurnax and Alduin himself fear the Elder Scrolls' power. Turns out that they don't just reveal events, they can alter reality as well; with no recourse left, the ancient Nordic heroes who faced Alduin invoked the power of an Elder Scroll to "cast Alduin out of time", postponing his reckoning until the age where Skyrim (the game, not the province) takes place. The residue from that event created the Time-Wound, mentioned above. As seen in Skyrim, the glyphs on the Elder Scrolls match closely to those seen on the Eye of Magnus, an artifact of great and mysterious power connected to Magnus, the god of magic and "architect" of Mundus. This has led to the theory that the scrolls are related to that event (and their alternative name, "Fragments of Creation", further lends credence). In Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC you undergo the same ritual Moth Priests go through to be able to read an Elder Scroll after the Moth Priest you rescued goes blind after reading one without the necessary precautions. After reading the Scroll you are none the worse for wear, likely because as the Dragonborn, your Aedric soul protected you from the normal side-effects. The Mysterium Xarxes, an artifact of Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince of Destruction. The Oblivion script notes actually call for Martin, the most knowledgeable major character on the subject, to react as if given "a handful of glowing plutonium" when he receives the Xarxes. It's just that sort of book. The Oghma Infinium, which translates to "infinite wisdom" in Old Aldmeris, is bound in humanoid skin and is an artifact of Hermaeus Mora, the Daedric Prince of Knowledge (with a particular specialty in Eldritch knowledge). Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC introduces the Black Books, which are more or less the Oghma Infinium's little brothers. Reading them teleports you to Apocrypha, the Daedric Plane of Hermaeus Mora, via black tentacles that come out of the book in search of a new power. Like many of the other examples here, it drives most mortals insane. The Dragonborn, however, gains power in the form of spell buffs, shout buffs, and skill increases. Online introduces a subdued example in the Necrom chapter with the tomes used by Arcanists. Like the Infinium and Black Books, they're books (or, at least, Creatia that takes the form of books) from Apocrypha. However, they bind themselves to a given Arcanist and will only lend their powers and insights to their chosen Arcanist.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_9d48ae2e	comment	Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: The Ninjanomicon, while usually acting as a Great Big Book of Everything for Randy, also contains great powers and horrible things that can be unleashed in the wrong hands, like the Necronomicon it's named after.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_9e3d1858	comment	In Kingdom Come: Deliverance the Necronomicon is a quest item found in the Cabinet of Forbidden Books in the Benedictine monastery at Sasau.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a037ae41	comment	Caster's Noble Phantasm in Fate/Zero is Prelati's Spellbook, a tome with a covering made of human skin. It's a self-powering prana generator and allows the user to summon Eldritch Abominations. It's also called the R'lyeh text, as a Shout-Out to the Cthulhu Mythos. It can also allow Caster to merge with the book in order to summon a gigantic Eldritch Abomination. Is it any wonder that Caster is so absolutely insane?
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a0b025d2	comment	The Gozerian Codex in Ghostbusters: The Video Game is one of these. The boss of the area uses four copies of it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a14cdb6f	comment	Night of the Demon: Cult leader Karswell has one of the only copies of an ancient tome on witchcraft and demonology, written in ancient runes he claims are unreadable â€” though it turns out he has the translation, and uses it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a27271f6	comment	Monster Prom has the Totem of Z'Gord, the sacred book of an eldritch deity also known as the Ruler of the Dark Realms. It is used in a secret ending to unleash the Dark God on the world and destroy all of monsterkind as a "prank."
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a2c37f38	comment	In a nod to the D&D examples listed above, Planescape: Torment has a book called the Grimoire of Pestilential Thought. Not only will it offer to teach spells in exchange for the main character doing increasingly awful deeds, it can also offer 'advice' which has a very good chance of making the main character more evil just from hearing it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a32877f1	comment	The Old Kingdom trilogy: The Book of the Dead is a green leather-bound book that's different each time it's read and shows a certain disconcerting independence of movement â€” i.e. it knows where it needs to go and will follow along with someone headed in that direction, with or without their cooperation. It can only be opened by a necromancer and closed by an uncorrupted Charter mage â€” that is, the Abhorsen and their successor. Normal people find it exudes an aura of deathly chill and utter terror. It's not actively malevolent, though, since it's kind enough to ensure that the reader doesn't remember the more horrifying sections until they really really need to. In the second book of the trilogy, Lirael takes on a job working in the Great Library of the Clayr, which is a bit more like a museum. The books (and "exhibits") range from the prosaic to works of great magic, which are kept under lock and key. This has the unfortunate side-effect that if one of said exhibits gets loose somehow, the person responsible has to find a sneaky way of getting at highly protected books if she wants to have any chance at all of stuffing it back into its can.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a419e814	comment	Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow stories feature the eponymous play which simultaneously enlightens and drives mad anyone who reads it all. Reportedly, the first act is normal enough, but glimpsing even the first few words of the second compels people to finish the whole thing and expose themselves to all manner of hideous revelations. (Presumably a production would be impossible to stage.) Only a few brief excerpts, not enough to clearly indicate the plot or subject matter, are ever given. Likewise, the Yellow Sign is never actually described. Chambers' stories predated Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories and Lovecraft cited them as an inspiration.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a49658cd	comment	The vampire novel The Historian has one which has the effect of attracting Vlad Dracula and his minions to those who find a copy. This is made creepier by the fact that the novel actually looks like the Tome of Eldritch Lore described within.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a512f762	comment	Clive Barker's Undying: What started the curse.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a5ec251b	comment	Common item in the Read or Die TV series done different ways. One example had a god-like man named "The Gentleman" who had his essence written into a number of such books. In the OVA series, there's a subversion: handwritten notes in the margins of an otherwise-harmless book held the secret to driving the entire human race to suicide. The manga used it straight; The Dark Abyss, a book bound in human flesh, that the publisher required 5 different people to print, a page at a time. Reading it or listening to someone read it instantly resulted in insanity.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a632be2c	comment	The show parodied it in the first Treehouse of Horror episode, where one segment features an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven". When the line about reading the quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore comes around, we find Homer reading a book titled "Forgotten Lore, Volume III".
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy The Gran Grimoire in the Ivalice Alliance miniseries. In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, it's a magickal tome that transforms the sleepy town of St. Ivalice into the actual Ivalice. In Vagrant Story, it's not a book per se â€” every stone in the city of LeÃ¡ Monde is inscribed with ancient Kildean runes, turning the city into the ultimate codex of magick. In Final Fantasy XII, you can get two Grimoires, titled Togail and Aidhed, from certain creatures you kill. Their descriptions say that they contain spells respectively capable of destroying Ivalice and snuffing out all life; to you, they only serve as Shop Fodder.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering While most of them don't literally involve books (and conversely not all book-related cards in the game suffer from this, either), the game features its share of cards that play on the 'forbidden knowledge' theme by providing access to additional cards for a modest sacrifice in life points or cards already in hand or in play. Geth's Grimoire deserves a mention for both being a book of evil knowledge (in this card's setting Geth is a powerful Black-aligned character,) and for housing a conscious spirit that is in constant torturous agony due to said evil knowledge. The flavor text states that save for when the book is opened and presumably being read, the book is always shrieking, and mechanically the card activates off of an opponent discarding, which Black can force on others. With the release of the Innistrad set, based on gothic horror, it has an archetypal example: Grimoire of the Dead, whose playtest name was, in fact, "Necronomicon".
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a92c264a	comment	Exterminatus Now had the Necrotelenomicon in one arc, a book made from its author that was apparently like a phone book of the Immaterium. A cult was attempting to use it to resurrect their god, but they couldn't translate it and even attempting to read it made their eyes bleed. Virus and Rogue retrieved it from them by allowing them to scan some pages and run them through an online translator, reasoning that whatever it spat out would be completely useless.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_a976069a	comment	The Necronomicon in Cthulhu Slippers knows the email addresses of every Eldritch Abomination working at Cthulhu Corp. There was an attempt at mass-producing an abridged version, "My First Necronomicon", but it was less "devour the innocent" evil and more "show your wife your browser history" evil. After it switched Hastur's coffee for decaf, it was recalled and all volumes incinerated.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_ac105a28	comment	The Book of Pure Evil from Todd and the Book of Pure Evil.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_af6a4464	comment	The Secret World: Blood-based magic attacks use a book as a focus, so it's apparent that these tomes are not normal. Especially the ones from hell that looks like Cthulhu fucked a book.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_af917481	comment	Jackie and Craig features Talon's Diary, which she keeps chained to her wrist. A combination of a teenage girl's Secret Diary and a record of unholy black magic and mad science experiments, it's pink and has a heart drawn around the Necronomicon Sigil on the front. Craig gets a glimpse of the inside and sees crude diagrams of people vivisected in human sacrifice.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_b407d2d7	comment	The eponymous Book of Shadows in the second Corpse Party game. May or may not be sentient.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_b4b56521	comment	The Book of Forbidden Knowledge in Shoebox Zoo. Its dark magic and science corrupts those around it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_b5e3fd5f	comment	Madlax: The Firstari, the Secondari and the Thirstari are capable of driving cities of men into their darkest emotions, creating doppelgangers, and bringing down airplanes.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_b6c9037f	comment	The Magnus Archives has a story arc about the library of Jurgen Leitner, which consisted of particularly nasty examples of this trope. The mention of his name in a statement is enough to make the usually-sceptical archivist immediately believe every word of the subject's story.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_b745e48f	comment	One Night in October: Kate finds an old book full of pages containing magic images while she's hiding in the barn from the killer.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_b9587d34	comment	Jets'n'Guns Gold Edition features the Necrofilicon, a book with such horrible grammar, reading any part of it out loud will awaken the dead in the immediate area.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_b962c879	comment	The Books of Zeref in Fairy Tail. Black Mage Zeref wrote a bunch of books infused with magic that allows people to accomplish truly awesome and terrifying feats, such as demon summoning and time travel. Each Book contains the rituals and magic necessary to summon a different demon.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_bb6c2ecc	comment	The Book of Claws from They Bleed Pixels constantly drips blood and causes the main character to have nightmares where the game takes place. At the end of the game we see that the school library is full of them.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_bcadd7cb	comment	These are one of the types of artifacts that can be found throughout the galaxy in Warhammer 40,000. They often draw the attention of treasure hunters, Inquisitors (puritanical and radical), and military forces trying to seize control of these artifacts for good or ill, and it's conceivable, even probable that battles or even wars broke out for control of these. However, it's more often that covert operatives are used to avoid drawing too much attention when someone makes a grab for one. One of the most notable books is the Book of Lorgar, penned by the Primarch Lorgar when he turned to Chaos and started laying the groundwork for the Horus Heresy, the Imperium's first and largest civil war. It's essentially a Bible of Evil, though it's implied to hold quite a bit of practical information, particularly on daemonology. Another of the most notable books is the Book of Magnus, penned by Lorgar's brother, the Primarch Magnus. Where Lorgar was a preacher, Magnus was a scholar and a wizard, so the Book of Magnus is a compendium of knowledge of Chaos, psychic mechanics, and sorcery. Then in true 40k fashion, it goes overboard with the Black Library: an entire extradimensional stronghold full of forbidden lore, guarded by space elf ninja clowns who worship a god that managed to trick other gods into eating each other. Named the Laughing God of course.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_bd67c74c	comment	CthulhuTech The game has a Tome of Eldritch Lore that was used to develop the setting's Magitek, but all the scientists that worked on the project were driven stark raving mad. There is one subversion though, The Taâ€™ge Fragments, which actually brought those who read it back to sense, realizing that bringing Eldritch Abominations back to Earth wasn't such a good idea. And they made a Heelâ€“Face Turn. The world government actually produces and distributes copies of these in the black market. Why? Because the ones they do are mostly neutered and have the really bad stuff in them taken out. By selling the neutered copies anyone stupid/insane enough to muck around with said tomes would first find those versions and stop looking. When someone finds a non-neutered copy or an original copy with things that even the later edition didn't dare put in.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_be12d202	comment	In Warlock (1989), the Grand Grimoire is a Satanic book that was broken up long ago. When brought together it reveals the hidden name of God, which if said backwards will undo all that he created and destroy the world.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_bf7fe67f	comment	Sausage Party features a cookbook being treated as this. It's found in the "Dark Aisle" (i.e. the place where cook and kitchenware are located), and its illustrations of foods being cooked and eaten are presented with all the same horror as the grisly artwork inside the Necronomicon. Frank tears pages out of the book to show to the rest of the store in order to get them to believe him.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer The Nine Books of Nagash the Necromancer, in which the first necromancer wrote out the secrets and nature of his dark art. The originals were destroyed, but there are some copies still lying around. The Liber Chaotica (the Book of Chaos), a guide to all things Chaotic, with occasional referances to Warhammer 40,000. As a different take on this trope, the writer was not trying to support Chaos, but was ordered by the Cult of Sigmar to compile it to help fight Chaos. Naturally the study of such subjects has a less than stellar effect on his mental health. Storm of Magic describes the Black Book of Ibn Naggazar, which is such a powerful repository of dark magic that its bearer will become the most talented Death and Shadow mage on the field, capable of turning two power dice into an apocalyptic display... but, at the same time, it eats a lot of the people around him, since it automatically claims a blood sacrifice for every spell cast, and will eat its wielder too if he doesn't keep it fed. It's very popular with Necromancers, Skaven mages and goblins.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_c03fb213	comment	The Book of Salzared in The Beyonders only contains a few pages of material explaining the Word that can destroy the Emperor and the first syllable of the Word, but it's enough to be considered one of these. And since the author, and source of the leather used to bind it, was a Displacer, it's still alive.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: Within Merasmus the Magician's castle lies the Bombinomicon, an eldritch tome of... bombs. A young Demoman attempts to read it, only for the Bombinomicon to possess the Demoman's left eye and turn it into MONOCULUS!. When it makes its in-game appearance in the 2012 Scream Fortress event, it turns out he talks like an Italian used car salesman and is actually pretty affable, even helping the mercs fight Merasmus by giving them bomb-heads to stun him.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "Inspiration Manifestation", the book that Spike finds with the spell to help Rarity is hidden in the old Everfree Castle, hidden by a secret wall, behind a locked gate, and on a rock stairway that immediately crumbles when the book is removed from the pedestal. It's made of stone and even has spikes sticking out of the cover. The only spell actually used from it, the titular Inspiration Manifestation, gives Rarity the power to create or "improve" anything she imagines â€” at the cost of slowly turning her into a megalomaniac determined to transform the world into an artistic masterpiece. In the episode "The Summer Sun Setback", to utilize Grogar's Bewitching Bell, Tirek, Chrysalis, and Cozy Glow break into the restriced section of the Canterlot archives, where they found a chained-up book containing all the information they needed to master it. It even had detailed pictures showing the spells that enabled the Bell to steal a creature's magic and give it to another.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Extremis" features The Veritas, a short book kept in the Vatican's secret library of blasphemy, the contents of which cause everyone who reads it to kill themselves. Why? Because it reveals the "world" is a computer simulation created by hostile aliens as preparation for their planned invasion of Earth, and thus no one in it is real. The Master himself is said to have a copy of none other than the infamous Necronomicon itself among many other horrible and sanity destroying pieces of literature.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_c51a81a0	comment	In A Witch's Tale, Liddell wanted to find a powerful spellbook to become a great witch. She found the spell, but also unsealed the Eld Witch.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_c51b8d7a	comment	In Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, the Scripture of Miroku. It details how to end the world and bring a new one into reality. Shin Megami Tensei IV puts a twist on this trope: The Black Samurai hands out "Literature" that enriches people with knowledge beyond what exists in the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado, but also drives them insane, turning them into demons. It's modern Japanese literature, and the transformation is the result of them going mad from realizing there is a better life outside of their kingdom.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_c5d8eb29	comment	School Mermaid: Revolves around a journal containing a spell when chanted at a certain time at night, will cause human looking mermaids to appear before the user. If the mermaid with the first letter of the boy you love is caught and killed, all you have to do is eat the flesh of it while thinking of your true love and, presto, instant boyfriend.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_c62995ba	comment	A major plot point in Child of the Storm is the Death Eater/HYDRA alliance led by Lucius Malfoy steals the Darkhold and gifts it to Gravemoss. Like in it comic canon counterpart, it's the ultimate book of Black Magic, created by Chthon as a Soul Jar to maintain his foothold in reality. The book itself is indestructible, and it just being outside of its containment causes reality to slowly start breaking down. The Word of Kemmler appears in the sequel, Ghosts of the Past. Unlike most examples, it's not inherently magical, and neither were the other books Kemmler wrote. However, its predecessors contained a lot of serious necromantic knowledge, which back in the early to mid-20th century meant that a lot of otherwise fairly minor dark practitioners got hold of the How To guide on real necromancy. The Word of Kemmler is the worst of the lot, as among other things, it contains the instructions for a necromantic ascension into a Physical God. The trope is also parodied in said sequel, with Doctor Strange supplying Harry with a number of relevant books, often with snarky titles. Examples include: Blood Magic for Morons (which Strange wrote himself â€” Harry strongly suspects that he titled it such because being a Seer, he knew that Harry was going to do something stupid), Everything You Wanted To Know About Vampires But Were Too Afraid To Ask, The Necrotelecomnicon ('The Phonebook of the Dead'), and Liber Paginarum Fulvarum ('The Book of Yellow Pages').
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_c70a1171	comment	Conan the Barbarian: In "A Witch Shall Be Born", the title witch did not mind when the magician who raised her drove her off: Several Conan stories mention "The Book of Skelos", an ancient tome of black magic that contains spells for summoning demons.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_cad487df	comment	Titanium Chef from Sushi Pack uses recipes from "The Book of Chum Chop: Ancient Recipes for Chaos and Mayhem" to perpetrate his villainy. This includes creating perfect (but emotionless) doppelgangers, opening a warp to a parallel universe, and cooking up a batch of shoeshine that makes anyone who uses it feel cold even though they're not (It Was Evil In Context).
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_cf499f4f	comment	Parodied in the Reading Rainbowverse by the shadowbolts book. While it can add and remove itself from the library catalog, the most terrifying thing it does is draw a dick on Lightning Dust's head.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_d4804aef	comment	The grimoire of King Gorice of Witchland in E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros is used to harness the powers of Hell.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	As befits its tone, Deadlands has a few of these tucked away in its pages and pages of Splatbooks. The most "Eldritch Lore-y", though, would be the Whateley Family Bible, which â€” in addition to having the Family Tr... Shrub (don't ask) in the front pages â€” contains margin notes on how to perform all manner of dark arts. The irony of profaning a Holy Bible is not lost on the misanthropic family. Player Character Whateleys, while assumed to be a moral cut above their NPC brethren (and cousins and uncles, some of which are the same people), can get a "pocket-sized" version, which contains less forbidden lore and can cause panic in anyone attempting to translate it... whether they succeed or not!
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_d4fa168d	comment	Fable A couple of optional quests in Fable II have the Normanomicon, the book of the extremely dead. Said quest is a touch underwhelming, as it mostly involves getting the book back from a bunch of undead mooks that two bumbling brothers (Max and Sam) have accidentally summoned. The book returns in Fable III with a more interesting quest line, which involves getting the book for the ghosts of the two brothers from the last game, and one of them going mad with power.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_d5c2a7a3	comment	In the Mage Towers level of Thief: The Dark Project, some documents mention a rogue necromancer's attempt to locate the dreaded "Book of Ash". As it turns out, this book can in fact be found in the sequel. From what the player can see it contains rituals in Lovecraft-speak, and has a rather nasty fate in store for anyone who reads it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_d6919071	comment	In The Cassini Division, a Fall Revolution book by Ken MacLeod, two characters peruse a market stall selling old books. One tome, Home Workshop Nanotech by a "Dr. Frank N. Stein", published some 250 years before the events of the book, explains in straightforward terms how to make replicating nanotech using a simple computer, some household chemicals, and a tunnelling electron microscope. Sci-fi to be sure, but a mysterious ancient book containing world-shattering knowledge of things man was not meant to meddle with makes it pretty eldritch.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_d8534d26	comment	The Grimmerie from the novel Wicked is implied to be one of these, but no Ozian can actually read the thing. Elphaba can make out bits and pieces, but that's because she turns out to be only half-Ozian. It's also revealed that the Wizard's entire despotic reign is a mere Evil Plan to get his hands on it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_da02c1ef	comment	To a minor degree, the Ghost's Diary in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. The book itself will not kill you for opening it, but his owner asks you to not read it. And if you do read it, he will know immediately. And he will not be happy about it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_dc0ac742	comment	Meta-example: Book of Lies is a collection of short horror stories. The comic itself is meant to be the Tome.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_dc64461e	comment	The Necronomicon makes an appearance in Graveyard Keeper. Unlike many other examples, you have to retrieve it from the hands of an illiterate Lighthouse Keeper, who enjoyed the pictures inside.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_dccfc4b8	comment	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class includes The Monster Book of Monsters as required reading. The book is a sentient beast that will bite you if you try to open it. The only way to safely read it is to stroke its spine, which will soothe it and convince it to open for you. Hagrid apparently thinks this is common knowledge and is genuinely befuddled on the first day of class to see that none of the students have figured this out and have tied their textbooks shut in various ways. They are a pain in the ass for the owner of Flourish & Botts to stock too, with him having to keep them in a cage so they can't hurt customers.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_dd467682	comment	Luna becomes Nightmare Moon by reading an unnamed book about dark magic in Whispers.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_deaae920	comment	Dungeon Crawl has three: the Grand Grimoire, the Necronomicon, and the Book of Annihilations, all of which can do nasty stuff to inexperienced casters if they try to read them.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_dfb11451	comment	In The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio, the hero buys a mysterious book in a market and finds that it contains not only tales of old but a treasure map. The description implies that the book is a Shout-Out to the Arabian Nights.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_e293455a	comment	On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Giles had whole bookcases filled with these. "Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books." He used to keep them in the library of the high school. This was lampshaded once, with the principal doing a search of the library and questioning whether it was appropriate to have in a high school library filled with tomes instructing on the uses of dark magic â€” despite being asked during a period of demonic-inspired moral panic against magic, this was actually quite a reasonable question, considering. Giles explained in an early episode that he did it because the students never come into the library. It's the perfect place for a Watcher to put a collection of books so no one will ever read them. Remember that in a previous episode Giles physically threatened Snyder so he would reinstate Buffy. Besides, the books were probably kept by the anti-supernatural mob and would probably return it to him since it was his "personal collection". And then at the end of season 6, Willow absorbs all the knowledge from these books and actually does set off to destroy the world. In season 3 several episodes focus on a set of tomes called "The Books Of Ascension" which apparently detail the process for a human ascending to demonic form. The Mayor, who's attempting to do just that, gets his hands on them pretty quickly but Willow manages to steal a few key pages while being held prisoner.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_e2cb4c1	comment	Doctor Strange has an entire library of these.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_e4d5575	comment	In Warcraft (2016), the ornate book Khadgar finds in Medivh's vast library is a tome on the Portal and fel magic, both of which are pretty much evil.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS' Pyramid magazine had an article detailing Clay Bricks of Eldritch Lore which fit pretty much every aspect of this trope (unreadable, evil, drive you crazy) except that they're not actually books (being from before bound books were invented, or from cultures that never did).
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_e64f08b5	comment	On the Threshold has A Revelacao Preta, which not only was derived from the notes of a Brazillian plantation owner who subjected his slaves to horrifying rituals and experiments to try to appease dark powers, but has since allegedly been found in the hands of cults and serial killers for centuries (though the podcaster dismisses these as likely trumped up or coincidental. Still, one professor considers its English translation a valuable work of comparative anthropology, before she starts reading it and then begins feeling stalked by unseen observers, experiences memory loss, and not long after dies under questionable circumstances.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_e7a27429	comment	In The Bridge, all of the villains trained by Grogar â€” Equestria's Nexus of Dark Magic â€” were gifted with one of these. Scattered among the four of them are the components of the spell needed to free Grogar from his imprisonment.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening has numerous books called grimoires, where a mage inscribes all their knowledge of a spell (literally; it leaves their mind forever) so that others can learn it more easily; notably, the mage who wrote the grimoire can relearn it from that same book, and anyone who already knows the spell can use the book as a reference, making the spell easier to cast. Needless to say, some grimoires are less than wholesome, including: the book of the life of an Atlantean prophet that turns those who study it enough into a psychic clone of said prophet; a bestiary on Abyssal beings that leads the mage who reads it enough to believe that he's uncovered an important secret and that all his friends have turned on him; and the book that contains both normal spells and spells that draw upon the Abyss but doesn't tell you which are which. Grimoire of Grimoires is an entire sourcebook dedicated to these. The worst of these are The Final Spell Of Eli Ben-Menachem, The Invisible Codex, The Tome of Power, and The Prince of 100,000 Leaves. The first is a seemingly-sentient spell that teaches you how to summon reversed forms of Goetia symbolizing reversed Virtues into your enemies' minds, which are actually Abyssal entities who will escape. The second is an Abyssal creature in the form of a Tome of Eldritch Lore, which actually takes that form to lure power-hungry mages so it can eat their souls. The third is also a gulmoth, but the tempting devil to the Codex's Honey Trap, teaching its readers inherently Abyss-tainted versions of incredibly destructive magic designed specifically for them to have talent with, and when the mage is fully corrupted summons a different gulmoth to continue their education. The last is the heart of an Annunaki, one of the living alternate universes that compose the Abyss, that takes the form of 100,000 pages detailing a twisted alternate history for the world, which will then proceed to become real â€” the catch is that it's not fully written or put together. Interesting subversion: The Ialdabaoth Codex, besides being incredibly hard to spell, seems like it at first, being an Abyssal bestiary that gradually drives its readers to paranoia and the summoning of its contents... except that's the precise opposite of the book's intended function. It's actually a prison for the various Eldritch Abominations it describes (it scours the mind of its new prisoners and writes an entry based on its findings), and the madness is the result of them trying to get out. The writers of the book were actually pretty nice people, and a story hook presented involves reconstructing their Legacy. Not quite as bad as the others, but still quite thoroughly horrid, is the Hildebrandt Recording, a recording of a seance that contacted an entity of the Abyss. The disc is sometimes described as feeling tacky and unclean, the spells it can teach are profoundly disturbing at best, it brings misfortune to its holders, is actively sought out by profoundly vile individuals (whom it seems to actively influence), and on top of everything else, it should not exist. Hildebrandt should not have been able to even contact the entity, his equipment should not have been able to record its sounds, and for the recording to become a grimoire is just not possible, explicitly stated as such. It violates every principle of reality just by existing.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_ee742814	comment	Jewelpet Twinkle☆ has a book in which Jewelina encased all the Dark Magic in the world. Anyone who tries to read it for their own purposes risks getting possessed by the book, in which case it's going to try to destroy everything while it has a body. Also, it can turn into a Cool Sword.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing has the Cookbook of the Damned, for Pastamancers to conjure infernal pastas directly from Hey Deze. The Necrotelicomnicon is also there (also known in Latin as the Liber Paginum Fulvarum.)
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_f1d492d4	comment	The Book Bound in Pale Leather in P.C. Hodgell's Chronicles of the Kencyrath books works a lot like this, even though it was given to the Kencyr people by their God. Said god is not exactly nice, and neither is the book; reading too much of it can drive you mad or kill you, and the Master Runes inside are highly dangerous to use. Oh, and that leather? Human skin, and the Book appears to be alive; dropping it gives it bruises.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_f2041376	comment	In Charmed, there is the Grimoire, which is the demon equivalent of the Book of Shadows.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_f22d4818	comment	The Shadowhunter Chronicles has three books which fit this trope. The Gray Books are copies of the Book of the Covenant, a collection of Shadowhunter runes dictated by the angel Raziel a millennia ago. Every Shadowhunter use them as reference, but they can only learn a rune every few years, because trying to memorize them all at once will cause lasting headaches. Only few copies exist (all Institutes have one), because only the Silent Brothers can create them. Magnus also collected one during his centuries of working with the Clave. The Book of the White contains some of the strongest spells in the world, including one which can put someone to a state of Deep Sleep, one capable of binding demons to automatons, and another which can break wards preventing demons from entering Earth. Because it contains demonic magic, warlocks see it as their rightful inheritance and the only known copy is stored in the Spiral Labyrinth. The Black Volume of the Dead is by far the most dangerous and mysterious magic book of the three, containing, among other things, a resurrection spell and a charm which can make a person become irresistible to everyone. It used to be stored in the Cornwall Institute, but has changed hands many times because many evildoers want to use them for their own ends. Its current whereabouts is unknown.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_f7c8e36e	comment	Octopath Traveler has the appropriately named From the Far Reaches of Hell in Cyrus's story. Ostensibly a book about necromancy, it is in truth about the fallen god Galdera's power over life and death, and contains dreadful secrets such how to obtain great power and immortality at the cost of other people's lives using Blood Magic. The book's mere existence poses a great threat because of the knowledge it contains, and Cyrus has decide whether or not to destroy the book and its knowledge forever to keep it away from those who would abuse it.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_f8956ef3	comment	YuYu Hakusho has a videotape, Chapter Black, which serves essentially the same purpose. It's a recording of the worst evils ever done by humans, which human-hating Big Bad Sensui makes a point of showing to his followers to drive them insane with disgust at people. Notably, it's part of a two-tape set. The other tape, Chapter White, records the best good deeds ever done by humans, and you're not supposed to watch one without the other. Guess what Sensui did.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_f91de837	comment	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: The graffitied copy of Advanced Potion-Making contains margin notes by someone called the "Half-Blood Prince" (who turns out to be Severus Snape), which provide a lot of useful advice to Harry on how to make potions â€” better than the textbook itself (which frustrates Hermione to no end). It also contains a lot of other spells, and when Harry tries one labeled "For Enemies" on Draco Malfoy, he nearly kills him from the ensuing blood loss.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_fbf85e64	comment	In an episode of The Badger dealing with Lovecraftian beasties, Mavis whipped out her "Pocket Necronomicon".
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_fbf8acc	comment	The Cabin in the Woods kicks off its serious horror elements with the reliable Latin incantation from a spooky old book. Marty, the Erudite Stoner, immediately sees where this is going.
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Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_fdbace96	comment	The plot of Gravity Falls started when Dipper found Journal #3, and it's later revealed Gideon Gleeful has Journal 2 and Grunkle Stan has Journal 1. The journals contain relatively innocuous information, cataloging the various supernatural phenomena around the town. However, they also contain things like a spell to summon a horde of zombies, schematics for an interdimensional portal, and most dangerous of all, the instructions to summon Bill Cipher; The identity of the writer is another one of the mysteries the main cast tries to discover, but turns out the writer is benevolent and it's revealed to be Ford Pines, brother of Grunkle Stan.
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Jewelpet Twinkle☆ / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Koihimeâ€ Musou / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Le Chevalier d'Eon / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Madlax / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Vivere Disce (Blog)	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Afterlife with Archie (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Archie vs. Predator (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Carnage (2015) (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Contest of Chaos (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Darkhold (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Death Vigil (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Doctor Strange (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Gravel (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Hack/Slash (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Lori Lovecraft (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Lovecraft (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Providence (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Rivers of London (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Supergirl (1984) (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Vampirella (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Werewolf by Night (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Knights of the Dinner Table (Comic Strip) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Army of Darkness / Comicbook	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Green Lantern (Comic Book) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Entropy / Fan Fic / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Inquisitor Carrow Chronicles (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Split Second / Fan Fic / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
A Diplomatic Visit (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
A New ROAD of Misfortune (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
An Undertow Of Sand (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Big Human on Campus (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Cadance of Cloudsdale (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Chains of Reality (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Dancing With Demons (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Highschool DxD: The Spirit of Vengeance (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Old Man Henderson (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Pony Space (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Shadows Over Hell (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Split Second (My Little Pony) (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Awakening of a Magus (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Bridge (MLP) (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Freeport Venture (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The New Adventures of Invader Zim (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
TheRomanceOfTheOpenRoad	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
To Walk the Narrow Path (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Ultimate Sleepwalker (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Weiss Reacts (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Yukari's Offer (Fanfic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Cemetery of Terror / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
City of the Living Dead / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Damnatus / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
DarkWolf / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Evil Dead (2013) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Evil Dead Rise / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Evil Toons / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Hocus Pocus / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Knights of Badassdom / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Night of the Scarecrow / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
One Night in October / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Raptor Ranch / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Babadook / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Beyond / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Evil Dead (1981) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Haunted Palace / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Mummy (1999) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Warcraft (2016) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Warlock (1989) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Care Bears (Franchise) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Conan the Barbarian (Franchise) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Cthulhu Mythos (Franchise) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Evil Dead (Franchise) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Dark Id (Lets Play) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Fate/Zero / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
A Certain Magical Index / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
A Practical Guide to Evil / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
A Witch Shall Be Born / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Almost Night / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Andrew Doran / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Betsy the Vampire Queen / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Beyond Reality / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
BlackBride	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Blood Rites / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Books Of Cthulhu / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Bookshops & Bonedust / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
ChroniclesOfAReluctantNecromancer	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Chronicles of the Kencyrath / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Codex Seraphinianus / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Dark Hollow / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Dechance Chronicles / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Demon Road / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Eisenhorn / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Fate/Zero / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Gravity Falls: Journal 3 / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Horus Heresy / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
How to Survive a Horror Movie / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Jerusalem's Lot / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Keeper of the Swords / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
La Saga du Prêtre Jean / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Lovecraft Country / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Maladie and Other Stories / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Maluanaga	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Motherland / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Moving Pictures (Discworld) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Night Shift (1978) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Old Kingdom / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Oriuagor / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Pact / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Simulated / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Beyonders / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Book of Bill / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Brothers Cabal / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Club Dumas / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Descendants / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Dunwich Horror / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Hollows / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The House With a Clock in Its Walls / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Last King of Osten Ard / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Name of the Rose / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Worm Ouroboros / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Worst Witch / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Uprooted / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Viridian Saga / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
DoctorMortis	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
DoktorSleepless	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Felicia Sorceress of Katara	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
HowToSurviveAHorrorMovie	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
LiddellAndScottGreek-EnglishLexicon	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
MagicalGirlHunters	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Shannara	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
TheBeyonders	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
TheLibraryOfBabel	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Timeline of the Marvel Universe	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
TomeofEldritchLore	sameAs	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Birdy the Mighty (Manga) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Black Clover (Manga) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Mitsudomoe (Manga) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
School Mermaid (Manga) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Soul Eater (Manga) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Ancient Magus' Bride (Manga) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Touhou Suzunaan ~ Forbidden Scrollery (Manga) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Mabel (Podcast) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Malevolent (Podcast) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism (Roleplay) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Personification Life (Roleplay) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Dragon Has Three Heads (Roleplay) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Twilit Overture (Roleplay) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
WALL•E Forum Roleplay (Roleplay) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Warhammer Fantasy Divided Loyalties (Roleplay) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
We Are Our Avatars Escapist (Roleplay) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Who Needs Harmony (Roleplay) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Ash vs. Evil Dead / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Blood Ties / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Blood Ties (2007) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Charmed (1998) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Dark Oracle / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Friday the 13th: The Series / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Sleepy Hollow / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Order / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Outpost / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Shannara Chronicles / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Arkham Horror (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Breakfast Cult (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Dark Heresy (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Fabula Ultima (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Illuminati: New World Order (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Monsterpocalypse (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
OnMightyThews	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Pokéthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Ptolus (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Strange (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Trail of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Warhammer (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
WitchCraft (Tabletop Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
A Witch's Tale (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Alone in the Dark (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Arcane – Online Mystery Serial (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Asheron's Call (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Baldur's Gate II (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Battle Brothers (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Blaseball (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Book of Hours (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Chaos Legion (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
ClaDun (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Clive Barker's Undying (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
d20 Modern Neverwinter Nights (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Death end re;Quest (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Deepwoken (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
DREDGE (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Eternal Darkness (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Evil Night (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Golden Sun (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Graveyard Keeper (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
GrimGrimoire (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Hard West (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Haunted Hotel (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
I. M. Meen (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Infinite Welfare (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Książę i TchÃ³rz (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
League of Legends (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Magical Vacation (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Midnight Suns (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Necronomicon	seeAlso	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Octopath Traveler (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Octopath Traveler II (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Overcooked! 2 (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Penny Arcade Adventures (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Persona 2 (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Pray for Death (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Prom Dreams (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Shadow Hearts (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Shadow of the Comet (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Shadows Over Loathing (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Siege of Avalon (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Slay the Spire (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Solid & Shade (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Suikoden V (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Super Paper Mario (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Tales of Phantasia (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Thaumcraft (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Them's Fightin' Herds (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
They Bleed Pixels (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Total War: Warhammer (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Warcraft (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
West of Loathing (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Wynncraft (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Zombidle (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Anchorhead (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Ancient Domains of Mystery / Videogame / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Cthulhu Mythos RPG: The Sleeping Girl of the Miasma Sea (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Demonbane (Visual Novel) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Monster Prom (Visual Novel) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Purrfect Apawcalypse (Visual Novel) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Saya no Uta (Visual Novel) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Song of Saya (Visual Novel) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Animated Spellbook (Web Animation) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Nightmare Before Christmas Who: Skellington's Revenge (Web Animation) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Thrilling Intent (Web Animation) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Board James (Web Video) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Bookshops of Arkham (Web Video) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Carmilla the Series (Web Video) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Dark Harvest (Web Video) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Last Life (Web Video) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Oxventure (Web Video) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
PATHCO (Web Video) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Cartoon Hero (Web Video) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
A Miracle of Science (Webcomic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Awful Hospital (Webcomic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Blood Is Mine (Webcomic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Felicia, Sorceress of Katara (Webcomic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Juvenile Diversion (Webcomic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Team Fortress 2 (Webcomic) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
SporeWiki Fantasy Universe (Website) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Chowder / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Earthworm Jim / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Golan the Insatiable / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Mona the Vampire / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Monster Loving Maniacs / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Nexo Knights / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Santapprentice / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Sausage Party / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Care Bears Movie / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Deep (2015) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Real Ghostbusters / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Underfist / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Wish (2023) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (Video Game) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Dreamscape (Web Animation) / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore

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