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== Literature ==
* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Neverwhere]]'', a room in the monastery of the Black Friars is ''literally'' malevolent, as entering it gives you horrific visions of your own worthlessness and cheerily urges you to commit suicide.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'' features the Lost Jewelled [[Temple of Doom]] of Offler the Crocodile God. The priests have a very easy time of it as, of the very few people who ever find the place, none get past the [[Death Course]], even as far as the jolly drawing of a thermometer for the Roof Repair Fund (a joke about the maintenance problems of old English churches, by the way). The priests barely look up from their game of cards to comment, "Heyup, another one for the big rolling ball, then." To date, two people have gotten through—one is Mrs. Cake, feared by all churches as a stubborn busybody, and the other is Death. When the latter showed up, the priests ran screaming thinking it was the former.
*** So of all the things to get through, the choices ultimately boil down to [[Eddie Izzard|Cake or Death?]]
*** The {{spoiler|mall organism}} from the same novel is a literal and ''living'' example of this trope.
** That's not even mentioning the work of architect Bloody Stupid Johnson.
*** Well that isn't a case of actual malevolence, more Bizzarchitecture.
** How about theThe Temple of Bel-Shamharoth in ''[[The Colour of Magic?]]''.
** Also the Labyrinth in Ephebe as seen in ''[[Discword/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'', and it gets redesigned every so often.{{verify}}
* A borderline case occurs in [[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Good Omens]]'', with the M25 London orbital motorway. While it isn't actively trying to kill anyone, it ''is'' in the [[Artifact of Doom|shape of a glyph]] from the ancient [[Religion of Evil|Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu]] that means [[Ominous Latin Chanting|"Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds."]] The frustration of travelers on the M25 is described as perpetually generating a form of low-grade evil into the surrounding landscape.
** Iain Sinclair wrote an entire book, (''[[London Orbital]]''), exploring the grimness of the motorway and its surroundings.
* The {{color|blue|house}} from ''[[House of Leaves]]''. And not in the "ludicrously designed" sense, but in the "actively trying to eat the residents" sense.
* The [http://www.dionaea-house.com Dionaea House].
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