The Most Dangerous Thing Ever Written
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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a sealed container at all times. Every five hours, the container is to be opened for ten seconds to check if SCP-XXXX is still contained. If not, all areas inhabited by humans in a ten-mile radius are to be searched immediately. Should SCP-XXXX be discovered, personnel are advised to not under any circumstances open it. Any experiencing the urge to do so must report this immediately and request use of amnestics.

Personnel who wish to read SCP-XXXX are to be given amnestics and reassigned. Any assignment after this that may result in contact with SCP-XXXX will be denied.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a book entitled Veritas. Believed to have been written in [REDACTED] AD, the author was English Philosopher Albert Crane, who committed suicide upon completion. Crane's method of suicide was deemed so horrific by local magistrates that all mentions of it were omitted from public records. Upon discovery of SCP-XXXX, there were a series of similarly gruesome suicides throughout the city of Liverpool, where Crane had been writing SCP-XXXX. It is unknown how many of those who died read the contents of SCP-XXXX or learned of it from those who were aware.

After English law enforcement determined SCP-XXXX to be responsible, they sealed it away within the Tower of London, with no further incidents reported until [REDACTED], when several more suicides were reported in the vicinity of Whitechapel, all among prostitutes. An investigation discovered SCP-XXXX in the possession of one of the deceased, after which the Foundation became involved and were given custody of SCP-XXXX once it was determined there is only one copy.

Notes recovered from Crane's diaries can be found in Addendum 1.

SCP-XXXX

Addendum: > Interviewed: [The person, persons, or SCP being interviewed]

Interviewer: [Interviewer, can be blocked out using █]

Foreword: [Small passage describing the interview]

<Begin Log, [optional time info]>

Interviewer: [speech]

Person: [speech]

[Repeat as necessary]

<End Log, [optional time info]>

Closing Statement: [Small summary and passage on what transpired afterward]