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** The ''Book of Keeping'' is not a cursed or magical book, 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 — given that he would likely be the yugoloths' most hated enemy, he may 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 Cyrinishad is a cursed unholy tome that [[God of Evil|Cyric]] forced a wizard named Rinda the Scribe to create (and incidentally, he forced 397 other wizards to do so previously; Rinda's version was the only one to meet his standards) to be used like a divine trap. Once you start reading this book, you can't stop, and you become convinced that Cyric is the only true god and the only being who deserves worship. Cyric made the dire mistake of reading it himself, his already oversized ego turning to true madness. Naturally, this plan failed, although not before Mask (the god of thieves) was tricked into reading it, Cyric stealing most of Mask's power as a result.
** In the ''[[Ravenloft]]'' setting, the dreaded Alchemist's Apparatus is belived to be an [[Artifact of Doom]], but unlike most, it tends to be destroyed a lot (often via self-destructing, usually taking its user and whatever structure it is housed in with it) only to be rebuilt again at a later time. Some have theorized that the true artifact in this case are the schematics blueprints designed by the original Alchemist, making this a good example of the Trope.
* ''[[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. And seeing as the only canon character to have read the book is implied to have been abducted and [[Mind Rape|mind raped]] by archdemons, there's a very good chance the book ''causes'' it.
* As befits its tone, ''[[Deadlands]]'' has a few of these tucked away in its pages and pages of [[Splat]]books. The most "Eldritch Lore-y", though, would be the Whateley Family Bible, which—in addition to having the Family Tr...Shrub (don't ask) in the front pages—contains margin notes on how to perform all manner of dark arts. The irony of profaning a [[The Bible|Holy Bible]] is not lost on the [[In the Blood|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 [[Brown Note|panic in anyone attempting to translate it]]...whether they succeed or not!
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