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* The [[Green Lantern|Sinestro Corps]] has 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.
* ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'' lampshades this while the knights are playing ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)|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''.
* In the ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Dark Empire]]'' comics, the resurrected Emperor Palpatine has written two and is working on a third. They were a kind of combination of Necronomicon and Mein Kampf. The ''Dark Empire'' series itself is referred to on occasion as "The Dune Sea Scrolls."
** The two completed volumes of the originally intended several-hundred-volume set, to in turn be titled the Dark Side Compendium, were ''The Book of Anger'' and ''The Weakness of Inferiors''. The third almost-completed tome was to be titled ''The Creation of Monsters''. In the audio drama Luke comes across tapes of ''The Book of Anger'' and finds them horrifically compelling. Just listening to them makes him feel cold and perceive the world as getting darker. It takes an effort of the Force to wrench himself away, and even then he wants to study them.
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** Who worship a god that managed to trick other gods into '''eating each other'''. Named the Laughing God of course.
* [[GURPS|Pyramid]] 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).
* The [[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]] [[RPG]] has the typical Lovecraft library from the original stories, and a few additions of its own.
** And by ''a few additions'' we mean an entire sourcebook filled with half to two page descriptions of books both taken from other Mythos sources and invented outright. The major works generally include an [[Apocalyptic Log]] hinting at what has happened to characters who came into contact with the book, a history of the book and the explicit effects both skimming and reading it have. Guess what the sourcebook is called...
* [[Cthulhu Tech]] has a Tome of Eldritch Lore that was used to develop the setting's [[Magitek]], [[Brown Note|but all the scientists that worked on the project were driven stark raving mad]].
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* [[Kingdom of Loathing]] has the Cookbook of the Damned, for Pastamancers to conjure infernal pastas directly from Hey Deze. The Necrotelicomnicon is also there ([[Shout-Out|also known in Latin as the Liber Paginum Fulvarum]].)
{{quote|"Legend has it that the mad Arab Al Aksandir Garambel wrote it after he was driven insane by his very first summoning, a terrifying entity known only as Wa'tz'ynn."}}
* In the [[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]] 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.
* In the Lovecraftian-style [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''Anchorhead'', there are (appropriately) several evil artifacts, including a [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]. Tip for players: ''don't read it.''
* 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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