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* ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' has the Emigre Manuscript, a book so evil that it even has skull-shaped pages. Its main selling point is that it contains instructions on how to bring someone [[Back from the Dead]], something attempted in all four games of the series. Unfortunately, most attempts end up as grotesque [[Eldritch Abomination]]s.
** The Pulse Tract and R'lyeh Text count even more so. The Pulse Tract incarnates a god form the soul of the earth, one which very nearly destroyed all of Shanghai and subjected the our hero to [[Mind Rape|The Mother of All Mind Rapes]]. The [[Shout-Out|R'lyeh]] [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Text]] however, besides being named after a certain undead city, 'summons a god form beyond the stars' which was described as being as far above humanity as humanity is above insects. Eldritch indeed.
* ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' has the Dark Prognosticus, which was featured in the header picture. The game's intro states that "The book held frightful secrets not meant for people's eyes." The first page has a disclaimer warning a prospective user that "anyone who has possessed the book has never found happiness." Later in the game, it's discovered that {{spoiler|Lord Blumiere was reborn as [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] 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 the World as We Know It|The End Of The Multiverse As We Know It]], and makes you continue flipping pages until all worlds end.
** Another book, the Light Prognosticus, was written later. Unlike its darker cousin, this one predicts Mario & Co. stopping the end of everything. [[Sarcasm Mode|Which totally doesn't make the game's "prophecies are meaningless" aesop]] [[Broken Aesop|broken]].
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* The Gozerian Codex in the 2009 ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' game is one of these. The boss of the area uses four copies of it.
* 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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