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Unexpected Books

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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:

a snippet from the mentaculous

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Consider the dying pings of LES-1

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

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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"

Fictional Guidebook Fictional Universe
The Encyclopedia Generica The Simpsons
Encyclopedia Galactica The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
The Philosophy of Time Travel Donnie Darko
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Encyclopedia Galactica Hitchhiker Trilogy (in five parts) by Douglas Adams
The Junior Woodchucks Guidebook Donald Duck comics by Carl Barks and DuckTales
Encyclopedia Frobozzica Zork
All Of Them Witches Rosemary's Baby - book by Ira Levin, movie by Roman Polanski
The Book of Origin Stargate Universe - priors of the Ori
The Book of Rules The Dancing Gods series by Jack L. Chalker
A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer Neal Stephenson's novel, The Diamond Age
Necronomicon Ex-Mortis Evil Dead Series fictional Sumerian book, series created by Sam Raimi
Planetary Guides (annual) Planetary by Warren Ellis
Pokédex Pokémon games and animation
Highly Unpleasant Things It Is Sometimes Necessary to Know, Things That Are Not Good to Know at All John Barnes's novel, One for the Morning Glory
The Mrin and Darine Codices David Eddings' Belgariad and Malloreon
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition Star Trek
Tim Marcoh's Guide on Baking Desserts 1 Fullmetal Alchemist
Roylance Guide (of Secret Societies and Sects), Ghostbusters
Tobin's Spirit Guide, Ghostbusters
Spates Catalog (of Nameless Horrors), Ghostbusters
Spengler's Spirit Guide Ghostbusters
The Spells of Astoroth Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Handbook for the Recently Deceased Beetlejuice
The Code of Masked Wrestling ¡Mucha Lucha!
The Slayer Handbook Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Messiah's Handbook and Reminders for the Advanced Soul Richard Bach's novel, Illusions
The Necronomicon The Hound by H. P. Lovecraft. See 'Other Appearances' under Necronomicon for more.
A Really Useful Book MirrorMask
Da Rules Fairly Odd Parents
The Guide Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Orange Catholic Bible Frank Herbert's Dune series
The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Thievus Racoonus Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
Hogwarts, A History Harry Potter series
The Code Pirates of the Caribbean series
The Uselessness of Everything Moomin series by Tove Jansson
Voyager Guidebook Voyagers!
Space Core Directive Manual Red Dwarf series
The Tome of Eternal Darkness Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem video game
Lost in the Wilds. By D. Croyle "The Edge" (1997)

Jorge Luis Borges, Manual De Zoologia Fantastica

More and better Terminology, Again:

Synonyms worth considering:

Grimoire. Manuscript. Arcana.

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

Nothing much. You?

THERE IS very little written about the holy book of bacon

holy book of bacon

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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

the seed of a possible Hell the seed of a possible Hell the seed of a possible Hell

—the zahir

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

_Zahir
_Zahir_is
_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
 _Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object_that_has_the_power_to_create
_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
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object_that_has_the_power_to_create_an_obsesssion_in_everyone
Necrologium
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object_that_has_the_power_to_create_an_obsession_in_everyone_who
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object_that_has_the_power_tto_create_an_obsession_in_everyone_who_sees
_Zahir_is_a_person_or_an_object_that_has_the_power_to_create_an_obsession_in_everyone_who_sees_it

…that has the power to create an obsession in everyone who sees it,

External references

See Also

  1. A note regarding Tim Marcoh's Guide on Baking Desserts" (tags: Fullmetal Alchemist). Tim Marcoh's Guide on Baking Desserts - a guide written by the alchemist Tim Marcoh on the Philosophers' Stone, is thought of as a cookbook, but is actually an alchemy reference written in code. Sometimes creditd as "Marcoh's Notes."↩