You don’t read it. It reads you.

🕯️ The Origin: Unknown. Which is… comforting.

There’s no known author.
No ISBN.
No publisher.
Just a rough black leather cover, zero title, and about 240 handwritten pages.

Scholars call it “The Devil’s Draft,” or “The Black Pages.”

It’s written in a mix of Latin, Sumerian, Aramaic, and one completely unrecognizable script that some linguists believe is a constructed language… or something not meant to be spoken at all.

🧠 The Effects Start Before You Hit Page 20

People who’ve read it - well, tried to - report terrifying symptoms before reaching the halfway point:

• Sudden, extreme migraines

• Nosebleeds

• Pages appearing in different orders each time they’re opened

• Hearing voices in their own voice reading the next page

• Seeing a shadow over their shoulder while reading - even when alone

• Feeling the urge to tear out their own tongue or gouge out their eyes

One reader said:

“I don’t remember turning the pages. They turned themselves. I tried to close it but it held my hands. I saw my own name in the margins. But it wasn’t me writing it.”

📄 The Book Itself Changes

Every copy (yes, there are a few... terrifyingly) is slightly different.

• In one, the ink appears to be blood.

• In another, the handwriting changes halfway through - to match the reader’s.

• Some report blank pages… until they’re read aloud. Then the words appear.

• Others say the final page is a mirror. But it doesn’t reflect you.

🏥 The Aftermath of Reading It

Those who’ve made it to the end?
Not a single one is okay.

Documented cases include:

• A professor who disappeared after locking himself in his office with the book. The room was found covered in carvings of an eye - every wall, floor, ceiling.

• A woman in Prague who read it cover to cover, then walked into a lake and never resurfaced.

• A monk in Spain who read it in 1891, then sewed his mouth shut and wrote only:

  “It lives in the spaces between the words.”

• A Reddit user in 2017 who claimed to have scanned a few pages and posted them - only for the post to vanish within hours, and their account deleted.
  Archive sites? Corrupted.

🔒 Where Is It Now?

A surviving copy is believed to be held in a private collection in Austria, locked in a triple-sealed case behind lead glass, only to be viewed with specialized gloves and supervision.

You must sign a waiver before even looking at the first page.

And even then…
they say if you stare too long,
the book starts to blink.

🖤 Moral of this cursed read?
Some stories don’t want to be told.
Some books weren’t made for the living.
And if the words start whispering back?
Close it. Burn it. Run.
(But it’s probably too late.)

Would YOU read it? Even just a page?
Or are we locking it in a box and throwing the box into a black hole wrapped in a crucifix made of salt?

Tell me, brave bookworms of the dark 📓