Basic Trope: A book that can harm or kill the reader/writer.
- Straight: The Big Book of Certain Doom contains entries on every possible way to die. If someone reads it, they will suffer whatever fate they first read about.
- Exaggerated: The Big Book of Certain Doom contains entries on every possible way to die or suffer a Fate Worse than Death. If anyone even opens it, everyone within a fifty mile radius will suffer one of the horrible things written in the book.
- Downplayed: The Big Book of Certain Doom contains entries on every possible way to become injured. If someone reads it, they will suffer whatever injury they first read about.
- Justified: The book tends to trigger self-defeating paranoia.
- Inverted: The Big Book of Absolute Healing contains entries on how to cure every possible condition. If a person reads it, they will be cured of whatever condition they first read about.
- Subverted: The Big Book of Certain Doom is a target of wide eyes and horror stories the moment it's dug out of a secret chamber...But Bob finds out that it's just a blackly funny book about ways a person can die.
- Double Subverted:...But it turns out that reading the book summons supernatural Serial Killer Alice the Bloody, who likes to kill people based on the entries in the book.
- Parodied: The Big Book of Certain Doom causes things like hangnails, hiccups, and bad hair days, but everyone in the story still treats it as a high-level Artifact of Doom.
- Zigzagged: ???
- Averted: No books in the story have any effect on the reader.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded:Bob: And I used to think the only problem with books was papercuts!
- Invoked:
- A wizard enchants The Big Book of Certain Doom to harm its reader.
- A person coats the pages of ''The Big Book of Certain Doom with poison.
- Exploited: Dracone wants to get rid of Bob and knows he never saw a book he didn't read, so he leaves The Big Book of Certain Doom on Bob's desk where he can see it.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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