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* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'' has the Grimoire, a book version of the ChestMonster that hides in certain bookshelves to ambush players who [[AlwaysCheckBehindTheChair thoroughly inspect the game world]].
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* In ''VideoGame/LoopHero'', Tomes are sentient books created by the concentration of knowledge and magic in Bookeries. They tend to hide themselves among inert books but can be roused to kill if harmed by a careless human. Humans who read tomes are compelled to master the spells within and then add new spells to to the tome; once they are done, the tome will typically turn on them. In-game, they spawn as an additional enemy on tiles next to Abandoned Bookeries unless a mage spawns.
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* In ''Literature/NoNeedForACore'', the dungeon creates 'biting words' on its library level.
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* According to Creator/DaveBarry, every year a taxpayer is randomly chosen for an audit and thrown into the room containing the US tax code and the door hastily shut. There's some screaming and burping noises, and the next day the tax code is just a little thicker.
* Children's book ''The Book That Eats People'' claims to be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': While this didn't originally apply to the Necronomicon, it's a common trait in adaptations. What better way to advertise a TomeOfEldritchLore than having it possibly kill you before you even read it?
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The magic books inside the Unseen University's Library have to be chained to their shelves. ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'' describes a few of the books. The Necrotelicomnocon is bound in iron plates, the Guide to Levitation has been floating in the rafters for about a hundred and fifty years, and the ''Booke of Forbidden Sex Majyk'' is kept in a deep-frozen room and should only be read if you are over the age of 80 and, if possible, dead.
** To make matters worse, the books, apart from a fair number of them being able to rip the skin from your bones, they can ''read'' each other and ''learn methods to kill you with everything from magic to a door handle''. There's a very good reason why the students only venture into the library in large numbers (or scouting expeditions).
** The Octavo, the creator's own grimoire is so powerful that it can overload the most powerful anti-magic spell in existence and change reality.
* Children's book ''The Book That Eats People'' claims to be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': While this didn't originally apply to the Necronomicon, it's a common trait in adaptations. What better way to advertise a TomeOfEldritchLore than having it possibly kill you before you even read it?
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The magic books inside the Unseen University's Library have to be chained to their shelves. ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'' describes a few of the books. The Necrotelicomnocon is bound in iron plates, the Guide to Levitation has been floating in the rafters for about a hundred and fifty years, and the ''Booke of Forbidden Sex Majyk'' is kept in a deep-frozen room and should only be read if you are over the age of 80 and, if possible, dead.
** To make matters worse, the books, apart from a fair number of them being able to rip the skin from your bones, they can ''read'' each other and ''learn methods to kill you with everything from magic to a door handle''. There's a very good reason why the students only venture into the library in large numbers (or scouting expeditions).
** The Octavo, the creator's own grimoire is so powerful that it can overload the most powerful anti-magic spell in existence and change reality.
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* While this didn't originally apply to the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Necronomicon]], it's a common trait in adaptations. What better way to advertise a TomeOfEldritchLore than having it possibly kill you before you even read it?
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The magic books inside the Unseen University's Library have to be chained to their shelves. ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'' describes a few of the books. The Necrotelicomnocon is bound in iron plates, the Guide to Levitation has been floating in the rafters for about a hundred and fifty years, and the ''Booke of Forbidden Sex Majyk'' is kept in a deep-frozen room and should only be read if you are over the age of 80 and, if possible, dead.
** To make matters worse, the books, apart from a fair number of them being able to rip the skin from your bones, they can ''read'' each other and ''learn methods to kill you with everything from magic to a door handle''. There's a very good reason why the students only venture into the library in large numbers (or scouting expeditions).
** The Octavo, the creator's own grimoire is so powerful that it can overload the most powerful anti-magic spell in existence and change reality.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The magic books inside the Unseen University's Library have to be chained to their shelves. ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'' describes a few of the books. The Necrotelicomnocon is bound in iron plates, the Guide to Levitation has been floating in the rafters for about a hundred and fifty years, and the ''Booke of Forbidden Sex Majyk'' is kept in a deep-frozen room and should only be read if you are over the age of 80 and, if possible, dead.
** To make matters worse, the books, apart from a fair number of them being able to rip the skin from your bones, they can ''read'' each other and ''learn methods to kill you with everything from magic to a door handle''. There's a very good reason why the students only venture into the library in large numbers (or scouting expeditions).
** The Octavo, the creator's own grimoire is so powerful that it can overload the most powerful anti-magic spell in existence and change reality.
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* According to Creator/DaveBarry, every year a taxpayer is randomly chosen for an audit and thrown into the room containing the US tax code and the door hastily shut. There's some screaming and burping noises, and the next day the tax code is just a little thicker.
* Children's book ''The Book That Eats People'' claims to be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* Children's book ''The Book That Eats People'' claims to be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* In ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'' Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, in the [[BigBoosHaunt Haunted]] [[SpookySilentLibrary Library]], magical tomes fling themselves from the shelves to attack the party.
* In ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'', the Dantalion enemy are spellbooks with lost souls inside that try to devour anyone they come across.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'': There are two varieties. The first type merely flies at you and tries to slam into you. The second type opens up and tries to skewer you with an array of magically summoned weapons.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' : There are monster books in the Creepy Castle Library.
* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', animate books are common recurring {{Mooks}} that attack by shooting bolts of magic at your Servants; several PaletteSwap versions also possess different skills/abilities.
* In ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'', the Dantalion enemy are spellbooks with lost souls inside that try to devour anyone they come across.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'': There are two varieties. The first type merely flies at you and tries to slam into you. The second type opens up and tries to skewer you with an array of magically summoned weapons.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' : There are monster books in the Creepy Castle Library.
* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', animate books are common recurring {{Mooks}} that attack by shooting bolts of magic at your Servants; several PaletteSwap versions also possess different skills/abilities.
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* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' : There are monster books in the Creepy Castle Library.
* Overlord Zetta in ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' ends up becoming one of these. He doesn't bite, but he does possess EyeBeams that vary in strength from simply being really painful to causing explosions the size of a small nuke. In his cameo appearances in other Nippon Ichi games, he almost always attempts to blast someone with them after they mistake him for a normal book.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'': There are two varieties. The first type merely flies at you and tries to slam into you. The second type opens up and tries to skewer you with an array of magically summoned weapons.
* In the SpiritualSuccessor series Bloodstained [[VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight Ritual of the Night]], the Dantalion enemy are spellbooks with lost souls inside that try to devour anyone they come across.
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'': In the FanRemake, one of the puzzles involves Graham solving a riddle at a bookshelf. If he gets it wrong, he is eaten by the bookshelf's guardian.
* Overlord Zetta in ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' ends up becoming one of these. He doesn't bite, but he does possess EyeBeams that vary in strength from simply being really painful to causing explosions the size of a small nuke. In his cameo appearances in other Nippon Ichi games, he almost always attempts to blast someone with them after they mistake him for a normal book.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'': There are two varieties. The first type merely flies at you and tries to slam into you. The second type opens up and tries to skewer you with an array of magically summoned weapons.
* In the SpiritualSuccessor series Bloodstained [[VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight Ritual of the Night]], the Dantalion enemy are spellbooks with lost souls inside that try to devour anyone they come across.
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'': In the FanRemake, one of the puzzles involves Graham solving a riddle at a bookshelf. If he gets it wrong, he is eaten by the bookshelf's guardian.
* ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'' has Babbling Book as a Mage minion, among various other {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s around Karazhan. It's presumed to be normally docile, but has gone berserk with [[TheArchmage Medivh]] missing.
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'': In the FanRemake, one of the puzzles involves Graham solving a riddle at a bookshelf. If he gets it wrong, he is eaten by the bookshelf's guardian.
* ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'' has a course reminiscent of the BigBoosHaunt course in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', complete with books that attack the player and a very similar aggressive animated piano with sharp teeth from that game.
* Overlord Zetta in ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' ends up becoming one of these. He doesn't bite, but he does possess EyeBeams that vary in strength from simply being really painful to causing explosions the size of a small nuke. In his cameo appearances in other Nippon Ichi games, he almost always attempts to blast someone with them after they mistake him for a normal book.
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'': In the FanRemake, one of the puzzles involves Graham solving a riddle at a bookshelf. If he gets it wrong, he is eaten by the bookshelf's guardian.
* ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'' has a course reminiscent of the BigBoosHaunt course in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', complete with books that attack the player and a very similar aggressive animated piano with sharp teeth from that game.
* Overlord Zetta in ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' ends up becoming one of these. He doesn't bite, but he does possess EyeBeams that vary in strength from simply being really painful to causing explosions the size of a small nuke. In his cameo appearances in other Nippon Ichi games, he almost always attempts to blast someone with them after they mistake him for a normal book.
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* ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'' has a course reminiscent of the BigBoosHaunt course in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', complete with books that attack the player and a very similar aggressive animated piano with sharp teeth from that game.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'' has Babbling Book as a Mage minion, among various other {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s around Karazhan. It's presumed to be normally docile, but has gone berserk with [[TheArchmage Medivh]] missing.
* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', animate books are common recurring {{Mooks}} that attack by shooting bolts of magic at your Servants; several PaletteSwap versions also possess different skills/abilities.
* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', animate books are common recurring {{Mooks}} that attack by shooting bolts of magic at your Servants; several PaletteSwap versions also possess different skills/abilities.
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* In ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'' Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, in the [[BigBoosHaunt Haunted]] [[SpookySilentLibrary Library]], magical tomes fling themselves from the shelves to attack the party.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Papa's Family Album," the evil imp wizard Hotap in Papa Smurf's flashback story turned Brainy's book into one of these, which then chased after Brainy until Papa Smurf turned it back into a normal book again.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "Papa's Family Album," the evil imp wizard Hotap in Papa Smurf's flashback story turned Brainy's book into one of these, which then chased after Brainy until Papa Smurf turned it back into a normal book again.
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Subtrope of AnimateInanimateObject. See also DeadlyBook, when reading a book's contents can kill. For a magical book whose contents are old and dangerous, see TomeOfEldritchLore. Contrast LiteralBookworm, for something that bites into books.
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Subtrope of AnimateInanimateObject. See also DeadlyBook, when reading a book's contents can kill. For a magical book whose contents are old and dangerous, see TomeOfEldritchLore. Contrast LiteralBookworm, for something that bites into books. For a hostile creature camouflaged as a harmless book, see ChestMonster.
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Subtrope of AnimateInanimateObject. See also DeadlyBook, when reading a book's contents can kill. For a magical book whose contents are old and dangerous, see TomeOfEldritchLore.
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Subtrope of AnimateInanimateObject. See also DeadlyBook, when reading a book's contents can kill. For a magical book whose contents are old and dangerous, see TomeOfEldritchLore. Contrast LiteralBookworm, for something that bites into books.
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* One ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' had Calvin's book suddenly come to life and eat his homework before attacking him. Or at least that was the reason he gave Miss Wormwood for why his homework wasn't done.
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* One ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' had Calvin's book suddenly come to life and [[ADogAteMyHomework eat his homework homework]] before attacking him. him and forcing him to break its spine to save himself. Or at least that was the reason he gave Miss Wormwood for why his homework wasn't done.done, complete with said broken-spine book as "evidence".
