The Nihlicron

Summary
The Nihlicron, aka: The Book of Nothing, was a tome written by an unknown author during the dawn of civilization 6,500 years ago and was found buried 3 meters/9.8 feet below the surface during the construction of the Paris Catacombs in 1785. The person who found the book was an Italian Architect by the name of Murello Bianchi, one of many architects that were working around the catacombs at the time. Bianchi noticed spite the books age, there was very little damage done to it. Made with papyrus, covered with leather of an unknown creature that was thought to be long extinct and binded with human hair, the Nihlicron was a very vexing find to Bianchi.

After bringing the the book home and beginning to read through it, Bianchi noticed that the scriptures were written in a language that could not be deciphered. Apart from the unknown language, there were lots of illustrations; drawings and sketches of various subjects from supposed deities and/or creatures long forgotten, locations not recognized in this world, star charts, very morbid imagery, the list went on. Though intriguing, things started getting strange around Bianchi.

At first, Bianchi started feeling watched in his own home, and he would turn to see no one there, after the first week the same would happen, only this time this feeling was stronger, and he would hear voices added on. After a month of owning this book passed, he was found dead in his bedroom. Doctors claimed it was from shock until they opened him up, and most of his internal organs were missing. Upon the discovery of Bianchi's corpse, there with him was a journal that noted everything that was in the Nihlicron, including the symptoms that he was suffering during the month of owning the book.

The journal states during his final days, he would see a shadowy figure passing the corners of his eyes, the form of an inhuman nightmare that he could not compare to anything of the living world. A creature, faceless and slender, skin, black as coal and a black smoke to match emanating from it. It would speak in a tongue no man nor beast could comprehend, gargled and breathy. and then the Journal ends abrupt, and drawn in a strange fluid a peculiar symbol that no one to this day can still decipher.

Since then, the Nihlicron passed on from museum to museum, each time being rejected or removed after many complaints from viewers started sprouting about feeling watched or uneasy after looking at the book; along with one case where a woman was sentenced to death after she went completely mad looking at the book and ripped the face off of an unfortunate passerby. Now, the Nihlicron has been returned to the Paris Catacombs and buried deep within the tomb in hopes that it will never be seen again.