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CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 hours agoWell, normal is a stretch. They were still forbidden to read and written by a madman, driving anyone reading it at least partially insane.
Lovecraft was basing it on The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers. The character itseld also appears in the Lovecraft pantheon as Hastur.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Pretty sure that counts as a normal college paper, but yeah it did have some secondary properties to it. But it wasnt bound in flesh or anything, plus by Lovecraft standards thats still pretty tame.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I think it being a normal book on the outside is actually scarier. The knowledge in the book was dangerous, not the object itself.
I would never open the Book of the Dead from Evil Dead but I might open the Necronomicon if I find it at an antique bookstore or something.