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A true artistic work is "revealed" to have been created with some other purpose in mind. Perhaps some god or devil had a hand in it. Perhaps it was a summoning ritual, à la ''Literature/TheKingInYellow''. Perhaps it was part of a ritual to attain godhood, which is why everyone's so enraptured by it. Either way, someone, or some''thing'', other than the author had a hand in it, and we're just finding out for the first time.
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A true artistic work is "revealed" to have been created with some other purpose in mind. Perhaps some god or devil had a hand in it. Perhaps it was a summoning ritual, à la ''Literature/TheKingInYellow''.ritual. Perhaps it was part of a ritual to attain godhood, which is why everyone's so enraptured by it. Either way, someone, or some''thing'', other than the author had a hand in it, and we're just finding out for the first time.
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* Creator/AugustDerleth: According to Derleth, when the fictional play featured in ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'' is performed, it results in the summoning of an EldritchAbomination.
* Creator/AugustDerleth: According to Derleth, when the fictional play featured in ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'' is performed, it results in the summoning of an EldritchAbomination.
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** Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge gets possessed by an alien ghost, who leaves messages in his poetry. Later, Dirk is revealed to be the infamous "Person from Porlock" who disrupted "Literature/KublaKhan" because if completed the poem would've caused the end of the world.
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** Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge gets possessed by an alien ghost, who leaves messages in his poetry.{{poetry}}. Later, Dirk is revealed to be the infamous "Person from Porlock" who disrupted "Literature/KublaKhan" because if completed the poem would've caused the end of the world.
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* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Dracula himself is commissioned by the competing White Court of Vampires for the explicit purpose of teaching humans how to kill [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Black Court vampires]]. Because of this, the few surviving Black Court vampires are exceptionally clever and dangerous. Additionally, the White Council of Wizards frequently publishes the nastier sorts of rituals so that the entity fueling them gets a crash course in supply and demand (picture a vending machine being beaten to death with a sack of quarters). This almost backfires in the novella "Backup" when a different sort of baddy nearly tricks them into doing it with her little book — one filled with the names of ancient, terrible, [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly forgotten]] beings.
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* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Dracula himself Bram Stoker is commissioned [[LiteraryWorkOfMagic commissioned]] by Lara Raith of the competing White Court of Vampires for the explicit purpose of teaching humans how to kill [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Black Court vampires]]. Because of this, the few surviving Black Court vampires are exceptionally clever and dangerous. Additionally, the White Council of Wizards frequently publishes the nastier sorts of rituals so that the entity fueling them gets a crash course in supply and demand (picture a vending machine being beaten to death with a sack of quarters). This almost backfires in the novella "Backup" when a different sort of baddy nearly tricks them into doing it with her little book — one filled with the names of ancient, terrible, [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly forgotten]] beings.
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** Morpheus has had his hand in the ''Literature/ArabianNights''. Specifically, the city of Baghdad is originally full of magic and wonders, but Haroun al-Rashid grows afraid it wouldn't survive that way, so he makes a deal with Morpheus; Baghdad would become a mundane city, and Morpheus would preserve a dream version which became the stories in the Arabian Nights.
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** Morpheus has had his hand in the ''Literature/ArabianNights''. ''Literature/ArabianNights'' anthology. Specifically, the city of Baghdad is originally full of magic and wonders, but Haroun al-Rashid grows afraid it wouldn't survive that way, so he makes a deal with Morpheus; Baghdad would become a mundane city, and Morpheus would preserve a dream version which became the stories in the Arabian Nights.''Arabian Nights''.
