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* In ''[[Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders]]'', Merlin, of all people, gives one of these to a [[Straw Critic|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", turns himself from her husband into her son. Naturally, Merlin thinks this is a jolly delightful jape. |
* In ''[[Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders]]'', Merlin, of all people, gives one of these to a [[Straw Critic|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", turns himself from her husband into her son. Naturally, Merlin thinks this is a jolly delightful jape. |
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* The Lifetime (of all things) movie "Devil's Diary" references a book found in a graveyard, planted there by a lightning strike. Anything negative you write in the book will come true. |
* The Lifetime (of all things) movie "Devil's Diary" references a book found in a graveyard, planted there by a lightning strike. Anything negative you write in the book will come true. |
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* ''[[In the Mouth of Madness]]'' features the popular horror novelist Sutter Cane, whose last book is [[Brown Note|So Bad Its Horrible]], if inexplicably [[The Virus|well received by the public]]. Still managed to have a movie made, which was almost as well received as the book and made [[ |
* ''[[In the Mouth of Madness]]'' features the popular horror novelist Sutter Cane, whose last book is [[Brown Note|So Bad Its Horrible]], if inexplicably [[The Virus|well received by the public]]. Still managed to have a movie made, which was almost as well received as the book and made [[The End of the World as We Know It|quite an impact on audiences around the world]]. |
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* Italian director Lucio Fulci used two. ''City of the Living Dead'' had the Book of Enoch (an actual text used in the Ethiopian Orhtodox Church, though it probably doesn't really open the gates of Hell), and ''The Beyond'' has the Book of Eibon, which has first written about by Clark Ashton Smith, and used in Lovecraft's "The Haunter Of The Dark, "Dreams in the Witch-House," and "The Shadow Out of Time." |
* Italian director Lucio Fulci used two. ''City of the Living Dead'' had the Book of Enoch (an actual text used in the Ethiopian Orhtodox Church, though it probably doesn't really open the gates of Hell), and ''The Beyond'' has the Book of Eibon, which has first written about by Clark Ashton Smith, and used in Lovecraft's "The Haunter Of The Dark, "Dreams in the Witch-House," and "The Shadow Out of Time." |
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* The witches' [[Spell Book]] in ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'' is not only evilly made (bound in human skin, written in blood, etc), and full of horrific incantations, but is actually intelligent and capable of serving its owners' desires. |
* The witches' [[Spell Book]] in ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'' is not only evilly made (bound in human skin, written in blood, etc), and full of horrific incantations, but is actually intelligent and capable of serving its owners' desires. |
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