Some oddities you don't find on just any bookshelf.

If you take a wrong (or fortuitous?) turn in L-space, you may stumble upon works such as:

• Lexicon_Technicum — Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves," Compiled by John Harris, first volume published in 1704, second volumte published 1710
• Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences — "Cyclopædia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences", prepared by Ephraim Chambers, first published in 1728. 6 editions followed and finally a Supplement in 1753.
• The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge — unearthed by Jorge Luis Borges around 1942. See also "category: those that tremble as if they were mad"
• Principia Discordia &mdash "Principia Discordia or How the West Was Lost" - Discordian religious text, written by Malaclypse the Younger and Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (known to their parents as Greg Hill and Kerry Wendell Thornley), first published 1963 via Xerox Printer.
• Codex Seraphinianus — illustrated encyclopedia of a heretofore unknon world, unearthed by Luigi Serafini, first published 1981 as a series of lithographs created with potato skins.
• The Magic Unfinished Spellbook (that could fly) — The Magic Unfinished Spellbook (that could fly)" - unpublished.
• Tobin's Spirit Guide — Tobin's Sprit Guide by John Horace Tobin, first published 1929, authoritative source for details of countless entities, cult leaders, rituals, from the Cult of Gozer, Gozer itself, Vinz Clortho and Zuul, to gods, demigods, and bizarre rituals of Ivo Shandor designed to bring about the end of the world. A must.
• Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials
• The Voynich Manuscript
• Necronomicon
• Book of Imaginary Beings
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• Taiping Yulan
• Demon Dwellings (de Goudge)
• De Vermis Mysteriis, or Mysteries of the Worm
• Orbis Tertius
• The Book of Ultimate Truths - Hugo Rune
• The Octavo
• Index Librorum Prohibitorum
• The Codex Galaxium
• The Mentaculus; a probability map of the universe
• List of Cthulhu Mythos Books
• Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis — Latin for "Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians"
• The Novum Organum, fully Novum Organum, sive Indicia Vera de Interpretatione Naturae ("The new Organon, or true directions concerning the interpretation of nature") or Instaurationis Magnae, Pars II ("Part II of The Great Instauration"), is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin and published in 1620

Consider the dying pings of LES-1

WWHD? (What would H.P. Do?)

Tim Marcoh's Guide on Baking Desserts

After a thousand years lost i a dark forest

a tome was brought forth -- and on it, there were listed, a catalog of catalogs, an archive.org copy of a list of "fictional guidebooks"

Decoded, almost completely lost record, titled "Fictional Guidebooks"

The Books of Oolon Colluphid

• "Where God Went Wrong"
• "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes"
• "Who is this God Person Anyway?"
• "Well, That About Wraps It Up For God"

from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

More and better Terminology, Again:

Synonyms worth considering:

Grimoire. Manuscript. Arcana.

• grimoire

If in doubt:

Klaatu barada nikto.

Other terms to include:

Apocrypha, Nachlass, Marginalia, Palimpsest, Almanac

Apocryphal marginalia from a manuscript stuffed inside a grimoire under a pile of almanacs in a forgotten nachlass.

And also

• ephemera - ephemeris
• esoterica

THERE IS very little written about the holy book of bacon

External Links

• lovecraftian tomes
• An abandoned 1960's U.S. satellite recently started transmitting a 'ghostly' signal
• (Deleted) List of Fictional Guidebooks (now on archive.org)

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Others will dream that I am mad, and I will dream of the Zahir. When all men on earth think day and night of the Zahir, which one will be a dream and which a reality, the earth or the Zahir?

there is nothing on earth that does not contain the seed of a possible Hell; a face, a word, a compass, a cigarette advertisement, are capable of driving a person mad if he is unable to forget them."

monsters still under my bed that i could never fight of

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—the zahir

Zahir. Zahir... is a person. Zahir, is a person, or an object.

_Zahir
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_Zahir_is_a
_Zahir_is_a_person
_Zahir_is_a_person_or
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object_that
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object_that_has
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object_that_has_the
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object _that_has_the_power
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object_that_has_the_power_to
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_Zahir_is_a_person_or_ an_object_that_has_the_power_to_create_an
_Zahir_is_a_person _or_an_object_ that_has_the_power_to_create_an_obsession
_Zahir_is_a_person _or_an_object_that_hhas_the_power_to_create_an_obsession_in
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Necrologium
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…that has the power to create an obsession in everyone who sees it,

External references

• The Novum Organum
• Ghostbusters wiki: Spates Catalog
• Ghostbusters wiki: Tobin's Spirit Guide
• Ephemeris - Wikipedia

See Also

• musb