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Any book can kill you if you're unlucky enough

What do you call an evil book that tries to eat you? A Necro-nomnomnom-icon.

2 ways a book can kill you: 1) the knowledge in it being a cogito hazard 2) by moving fast enough.

The Necromicon just sounds like the Terraria Wiki, "Contains knowledge of Eldritch Entities, How to beat them and how to summon them".

The turner diary ban and the anarchist cookbook lack of ban in Canada makes for an interesting statement. “Telling someone how to build a bomb is less dangerous than giving someone a reason to.”

"This Book Will Kill You" And that is why kids the Librarian is an Orangutan.

Well, John Wick did kill that big Russian dude in the library by smashing a book between his jaws.

I think the most dangerous thing about the Anarchist's Cookbook might well be the bits that are *almost* right but will probably get you killed.

There's also the case of books made with arsenic, either to produce brilliantly coloured covers or, in one case, to drive home how dangerous arsenic-based dyes in wallpaper, clothing, etc were. The latter was sold with a "do not let children touch this" warning. And arsenic never degrades, so they're exactly as toxic as they day they were made.

NGL The quality of these videos legit reminds me of broadcast educational television like on PBS. I'm genuinely very impressed at how high quality the animations and illustrations are for these videos. I've learned a lot from this channel but I am never not amazed by how quality everything is in these videos.

I'm surprised Nami no Tou wasn't brought up briefly, as much like the effect The Sorrows had, this novel may have supposedly been what further pushed people to see the lonely Aokigahara forest as a place to die, eventually creating its own popular folklore.

Banning books honestly just makes me want to read them more.

The pen is mightier than the sword…but you gotta hold it just right 😵‍💫

The line, "Ideas are slippery, they can happen in unexpected places whether intended or not" really hit me. Well done, TF.

The King in Yellow being 'too moving' really resonated with me. I have extreme anxiety, so if I read a book that's especially thought-provoking, I sometimes physically hurt with the intensity of the whirlwind in my head. I still read them, though. I understand why The King in Yellow would still be so sought-after despite the ban on it.

The Necronomicon is the kind of book that opens you more than you open it.

In Unordinary, there is a banned book by the same name. The book inspires people to become "vigilanties," which is something that is in direct odds with the in universe societal power structure. It's a good story, not perfect, yet i do find it rather entertaining.

"Shadows of the Walls of Death" can literally kill you if you don't handle it with gloves because it contains samples of various arsenic containing wallpaper. There are also some emerald green books that used arsenic to color their book covers.

Another "dangerous" book example could be "The Neverending Story," which sucks the reader into its own fictional world, and gradually causes you to forget your real life. (In a way, it's kind of similar to Neverland, but in book form.)

A friend of mine that went to an all girls highschool had some english lessons examining the writings of charles manson. The goal of these lessons was to teach critical thinking and how to identify the ways the author would manipulate young women. A worrying number of girls in that class walk away thinking that charles manson was charming and had a good point.

There's a book called "Shadows From the Walls Of Death" with wallpaper samples that contain enough arsenic that warrant specialized containment. My brother and I saw it on display at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. It was in a protective case to protect visitors.

12:34 one fascinating example of "Writer makes something that the fans interperate in a different way" is Rorschach from the Watchmen series, I can't remember the exact details sadly but Alan Moore's original interperitations of the character as a deconstructive parody of characters like Mr. A and The Question, a character meant to mock those objectivist Blacka and White morality. But in spite of his ridicule, readers and watchers of the Watchmen series fell in love with the character and propped him up in ways that Moore was shocked to see

Necronomicon in Evil Dead tries to bite you.

This can actually start a debate about how we are promoting the society to become childish and the dangers that come with that. Specially places like KZfaq, where you could get demonetized for saying a word the algorithm doesn't like.

Was almost killed by a dictionary once....fell off top shelf and missed my head by millimeters. The thing was MASSIVE! Catcher in the Rye was the single most boring book i was ever forced to read.

Immediately reminded of one of my favorite "South Park" episodes: "The Tale of Scroty McBoogerballs" "The Catcher in the Rye" is taken off South Park Elementary ban list and while reading it, our main cast of four find the book lackluster. They then write a book so juvenile and crass most people can't read it without an intense visceral reaction. The rest of the episode deals with things like how one gets a book banned and the will of the artist vs. The interpretation of the audience.

its interesting you mentioned goethe's werther! im from germany, i remember my high school literature teacher telling us that some years before our school time (so around early or mid 2000s i think?) a girl from our school killed herself (threw herself off a local tower monument) cause she was heatbroken due to werther. take it with a grain of salt if it was really cause of werther, but she did kill herself. just something i still remember, so it was interesting hearing it here as well.

"How to Blow Up a Pipeline" does NOT include any recipes for explosives or anything like that!

The most dangerous book I knew of before this was Malleus Maleficarum. The book that fanned the fire of the witch trials.

After seeing the bit about The Catcher in the Rye I think I now know why so many news sites began scaremongering about the movie Joker so much.

Thank you for this one, as slippery and delicate as this topic is. So many people who approach it with the message of trying to tell others "what to think". Rather, this is very refreshing and heart warming that in the end, what you ask is for people "to think"

A very delicate subject handled gently and impartially. I am genuinely impressed, and quite relieved that you were able to tackle this subject as well as you were. VERY good video.

0:27 love the use of the evil dead necronomicon

Haven't seen the whole video but I have to say that "The Book Thief" immediately commes to mind, as it is a story about the power of words and their danger, specially by emphasizing the way that Hitler used words to cultivate his regime of hatred during World War II.

"This book will kill you. "How?" "It's being held by John Wick." "😳😳😳"

"This book will kill you!" "That just makes it better😀"

Harvard has a book with nothing but wallpaper samples in it. Might actually be the deadliest book, or at least the most dangerous. It's called Shadows from the walls of death (awesome title!) Everything is an eerie green. That green pigment, comes from arsenic. Not what the video was about, but it did feel like it was a notable exception.

I live in Germany, here “Mein Kampf” (Hitlers diary) is rightfully banned but the commentated version is even read in some schools (History class) so I think that just proves the point here :)

Im so mad that Tale Foundry doesn't have at least 10 million subscribers, if you see this comment you are morally obligated to subscribe to Tale Foundry

Most times I'm less than appreciative of ad spots at the end of videos but yours are actually soothing to listen to especially after a video like this one. It's so true than banning a book really only elevates it's notoriety and often times just applying a bit more academic understanding and some context can sort it out fine. I am reminded, however, on the topic of restricting access to objectionable content and tools of violence; we'll just find some other way to crudely display our ugly, broken sense of self.

Hermaeus Mora wants to: know the books location

The most scareing story I have read, or more played actually, was "Hello Charlotte". It does something really weird with you, it combines feelings of spirituality with mass suicide... It is scary af.

We seem to confuse the difference between banned and limited or restricted. Some "banned" books are just age restricted, but people ignore that fact to make their point.

"A book can't kill you" SCP-3023: ...right.

"How to think critically so the text doesn't decide our feelings for us" What an amazing line. I have read so many books in my years that have made me feel uncomfortable because I knew the author was pushing their ideaoligy hard through the characters and events. So that line really resonated with me.

The Anarchist Cookbook is a great book to un-alive yourself. Many recipies are more dangerous for the reader than the actual target.

Don't make the pipe bomb in the cookbook. It is not measured right and will blow up in your face. Same for the flamethrower.

I think this to me highlights how powerful knowledge and perspective together truly are. Any information learned or reflected on can profoundly influence how someone sees the world, others and themselves. But changing perspective in turn influences how we interact with the world, others and ourselves. For better or worse...

15:18 A book that everyone was assigned to read in high school? Statistically speaking, I would be surprised if it didn't have a body count associated to it. By the way, from my favorite list of books that kill comes the one in **spoilers** The Name of the Rose: a book with its pages coated with a deadly poison, so anyone who might read it would die before being able to divulge its contents.

An interesting thing to note about "Catcher In The Rye" being included in this list is that it was also used as a major plot device in the "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" anime wherein the hacker known as The Laughing Man uses a line from the book as part of his logo. He goes on to inspire other copycats as well, all of whom adopt the same emblem as a meme. There's a part in the series where the detectives of Section 9 even refer to "The Salinger Angle" as a hypothesis for the true motives and methods behind The Laughing Man's actions and use that as a means of tracking him down.

Any book can kill you at a high enough velocity.

Ain’t no way my man said “slibbery.” 16:55 “…but ideas are slibbery.”

I love Maths, so the idea of a Black Theorem, some piece of maths that shatter minds is so cool

In addition to lethal books, there are lethal ideas, not all of which are limited to books.

Was expecting a Malleus Maleficarum mention, as its kind of the real world inverse of the Necronomicon.

This reminds me of a song that was banned because suicides spiked whenever it was played on the radio. It was a sad song and apparently made a lot of people very sad and depressed. They talked about it on QI if you're interested, that's where I heard of it.

Ideology always determines if a book is dangerous not content

In the movie "Conspiracy Theory," there's a subliminal implant in brainwashed sleeper agents to keep buying copies of "Catcher in the Rye," so that if one of their agents goes rogue, they can look for anyone recently buying a copy of it. Also, there's an episode of "South Park," where the boys write a book called "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs," which everyone in town sees as a masterpiece, reading messages into it that were never intended, satirizing people's reactions to "Catcher in the Rye."

Im almost certain the anachist cookbook that's on amazon is a newer edited version with recipies changed to be less dangerous, that's why it is still sold

Should we be concerned that someone might attempted to do something similar to the Rumbling one day just because that person happened to be depressed about the situation of the world and then read Attack on Titan?

always lovely to see another video from you, Tale Foundry! 💚

"No book can kill you on its own" Me: *knows that there's a book about the dangers of green dye/wallpaper and how it poisons people, with ACTUAL EXAMPLES of the poison wallpaper so the readers know what to avoid.*

I love the intro so much

I loved this episode. There's a deep emotional, almost spiritual mentality to the dangers of books. I think probably one of my favorite quotes from any movie comes from ready player One and I'm not even sure if this was in the book but it might have been. "Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on the back of a chewing-gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe"

ephipiny comes in various ways. - only way books can kill you, is when its hard, heavy and literal.

0:52 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA THING IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS IN A STORY I’M WRITING- that startled me-

I still love the intro. Hope you keep getting more subs and supporters, so can do more of this amazing content

This is some of the most compelling material on KZfaq. Maybe it's the material itself or the way you tell it.

19:30 thank you for reminding me to look you up on Nebula!! I love that platform, I'll see you there 😁

"Rage" is legit an excellent book. I understand why King pulled it, but it was an excellent read. Would absolutely recommend.

Well. That went harder than I was expecting. Good on you!

thanks bro, your warning saved me from the book that almost fell on my head and killed me

thats what you get when you open the face exploder book

There could be a secret link to ACB. Making it when a person buys one, it put their IP on the map.

Oh man. You’re great. Thanks for doing what you do.

2:55 Thank you for the trigger warning. I'm leaving and not watching further, but I want you to know that this is appreciated.

Fun fact: there are "sequels" to the Anarchist Cookbook, from several authors, which go into detail about everything from making drugs and medicine from plants to making biodiesel. The poorly-bound example i found at a yard sale was specifically about homemade medicine, but it had three separate chapters about different kinds of drugs... It mentioned the Anarchist's Cookbook in the dedication, as inspiration for its creation. I also have a book from 1964 about how to make fireworks. Most of the ingredients aren't readily available anymore, but some of the larger models described are terrifying. Apparently safety and common sense were not fixtures the author considered important.

Text may not be able to kill you, but it can make you lose "the game"

im always happy when you post its night where i live right now so its just like a bedtime story

Oof... Wasn't expecting the Heath High School mention. It gets forgotten in the school shooting discussion because it happened just before Columbine, which was so much worse. I grew up in Paducah, Ky in the 90s. I was in 3rd grade when it happened and went to church with Ben Strong, who was the teen that talked the shooter into putting down the gun.

I'd argue there is no dangerous books out there, just dangerous people.

I remember when Mein Kampf was brought back to the bookstores of my country some years ago. It sparked some discussion in the media at the time, understandably. If I remember correctly, the copies came with lots of disclaimers about the dangerous ideas showed by this book. I don't particularly see this as a bad idea to let this ouvrage be available to the public along with the right keys to read it, like you said in the video. It is probably better than a situation where there is no regulation and anyone who really wants it to could get their hand on it anyways.

1. It's a crime this channel doesn't have a million subscribers. 2. Bravo to your point about how it would be a bad idea to ban a book because it makes people have less-than-positive feelings. The world is already so sensitive. It's good for us to safely explore things that scare us--that's what books can do for us. 3. Nebula, here I come!

I always interrupted the King in Yellow play as informing its reader to a truth about reality, and that existential horror was what drove them mad. (Or more accurately, let them see what others could not and so be _considered_ insane.) I never thought it made them feel too much.

Unfortunately, the harsh truth is that, words can hurt and encourage hatred. I never even knew some of these books whereas a handful of other books came to mind that I would rather not mention. The notion of learning to handle a difficult book is... either a brilliant or dangerous approach in-and-of itself. it might work if some books are classified in such a way that requires a high level of critical thought, training of sort, or be simply unsuitable for most audiences; but even then - I doubt such restrictions would incentivize publishers to reprint ideologically toxic literature without demand, and how would such policy function to prevent a casual reader from picking up the book anyway and getting the wrong messages? Thank you Tale Foundry, every video you make inspires me to think a little better and delve into the magic of the written word,

For a moment, i thought the animation included the fact that the author of "Poor Mans James Bond" accide tally blew himself up and lost an arm, but then i remembered it is the unique style.

A fantastic educational video guys. Thank you so much for making it 😁

Unrelated topic: did you know that there's a creepypasta character that was based off a disturbing art genre, where you take any character and make them distorted/disturbing? You should check it out.

Great video as usual! All I can think of is jurgen lightner, magnus archives anyone?

this channel its soo good !! tks 🙂

The lightbringer series by Brent Weeks is an all around great example of not only dangerous books, but amazing fantasy in general. It's got it's own original magic system, physics system, languages, races, and the best in break-neck pacing. I can't recommend it enough.

Ah, the Necronomicon. The McGuffin of the only gumshoe/Chthulhu mashup every made: _Cast a Deadly Spell,_ starring Fred Ward as grumpy detective Phil Lovecraft, Julianne Moore as duplicitous _chanteuse_ Connie Stone, Clancy Brown as arrogant mob boss Harry Dunwich, and David Warner as obsessive occult scholar Amos Hackshaw. Everyone uses magic in 1948 Los Angeles except Lovecraft, staunch independent that he is, who gets caught up in the search for the Necronomicon, and the dangers that result in the calling of Cthulhu. If you haven't seen it, you must dig it up. It's filled with some of the most quotable lines ever written. "Magic. Gives me the shakes what you can buy in this town." "Good ol' Phil, subtle as a flagpole." Just great stuff!

Hey, as someone subscribed to Nebula, may I ask for more content regarding Worldsmiths? Really enjoyed it but I’d love more creative minds to dive into. Really grateful for the hard work though!

I mean, I just figured people as a whole were fundamentally unstable. Some just a bit more than others. So, it's no surprise to me that a grouping of words, or hell, even a grouping of letters to make a single word, or even just the implication of a word, not even spoken at but barely hinted, or in many cases, not even hinted but perceived anyway, can drive some of them to the limits of blind fury or inconsolable grief. So, not sure I would say it's the books themselves that are fundamentally the problem. Still though, I enjoyed the video. Gave me something to mull over today.

I occasionally empty out the insides of books and fill them with bees and put them in no bee zones

While the subject is grim here, I really like the topic of books' impact on the world. Hopefully you can make another more cheerful video about books that positively impacted the world or peoples' lives. I'm sure the list is probably shorter but definitely worth hearing. Thank you for another excellent video 👍

"When did you learn. When do you learn that Fiction has consecuences" -KyleKallgrenBHH

I still cant get over how amazing that intro is

This is a great video Thank you!