ADF-SR: 5000
Anomaly Type(s): [Possibly Non-Exhaustive] NES-I, NET-I, LD, MaC, MaD, MaR-II, HaV, HaS, HaT, HaO, HaG, Emma, Rec-I, Rec-II
Cases: 0058
ENT-010 is a brown hardcover book titled "Encyclophobia: A Diagnostic Manual for Common Fears." The book has no stated author or publication date, but the materials of the cover and pages indicate that it is at least two centuries old. As the title says, the book contains columns about a plethora of phobias.
According to an interview with Mr. Doe,* the previous owner of ENT-010, reading any entry will cause the fear to manifest around you. Despite Doe's warnings against reading, Harry Curtis volunteered to test this claim. Before reading, Curtis was quite fond of spiders, even having a pet tarantula of his own. After reading the first paragraph on arachnophobia, however, Curtis felt repulsed by them. This change seems to be permanent, and supposedly worsens as you read further through an article.
Mr. Doe claimed to have read two articles to full: Scopophobia and Somniphobia. He then felt a constant paranoia that someone was stalking him, and that this someone would kill Doe once he fell asleep. We were unable to follow up, as Mr. Doe died of a heart attack the week after our interview. Worryingly enough, his wife says that he had died on the couch, in his sleep.
We were able to find one other account of this book: A Texan newspaper from 1986 writes about the disappearance of a Dr. Ferdinand Kelce, a professor of psychology at Austin College. At his desk were various frantic notes about Encyclophobia, mostly warning people to never read the book. Neither him nor the book were present, and neither of them were found. Dr. Kelce did leave a note explaining his disappearance, writing that "it" had found him.
*Mr. Doe is an alias; this person wished to remain anonymous.
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