De Vermiis Mysteriis was a book in a yellow cover that could be found within the 2nd floor library of Derceto. Reading the book kills the player character after he/she reads it, unless they are standing on the tile with the pentagram, which is located in the nearby ritual chamber. It is considered more dangerous than reading Fragments of the Book of Abdul. Unlike the other book, which simply drives readers mad, reading this book unprotected causes the protagonist to be lifted into the air, their bodies twisted and crushed by some tremendous force before being dropped back to the ground, dead, as if picked up and clenched in a monstrous invisible hand.
Inscription[]
- Ludwig Prinn
- De vermis
- Mysteriis
- In nomine invocatoris, si non
sanctificatus es, cave.
De vermis mysteriis non absolvo follem
legendum fatum et eum versus: "tibi,
magnum innominandum signa
stellarum nigrarum et..."
Trivia[]
- De Vermis Mysteriis is a fictional grimoire created by the writer Robert Bloch and later used by HP Lovecraft in the Cthulhu Mythos.
- It seems that the Latin form used in this document is not correct. The approximate translation is: "In the name of the summoner, if you are not sanctified, beware. I do not permit fools to read the Mysteries of the Worm and its verses. To you, the great nameless sign of the black stars and..."
- The "nameless sign" and the "black stars" are likely references to the mythos around The King In Yellow, a collection of short stories by Chambers.
- There is no actual use in reading De Vermis Mysteriis.
- The title is Latin for "Of the Mysteries of Worms".
- The book was meant to make an appearance in Alone in the Dark (2024), but it was scrapped during development. Its model can still be found in the game files, but the text consists only of a Lorem Ipsum placeholder text.