Crypt Tome

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**The Crypt Tome**, also known as *The Book*, is a mysterious book containing information on the many, many monsters of the Crypt Monster Universe. It first appeared in the Sunny Family Cult episode "Divine Creatures".

## Mordeo (2017-2019)

### Offering

The Crypt Tome is in the possession of The Butcher, a serial killer who seeks to gain the power of the Mordeo. He uses the tome to navigate his way to the ritual site, and presents The Mordeo Queen with his offering, but she kills and eats him. He drops the tome in the process.

### Hunger

After accidentally killing her troop leader, Nancy finds the Crypt Tome.

### Desperation

Nancy brings the tome to Linda and Dan's cabin. After turning into a Mordeo and being driven from the cabin, Linda took the tome to find her way out of the woods.

### No Escape

Linda uses the Crypt Tome to navigate her way out of the woods. After she is eaten by The Mordeo Queen, The Stranger takes the book and her belongings in his truck. He tosses the book out of his window as he passes by a hitchhiker, who picks it up and looks through it.

## Sunny Family Cult (2017-2018)

After The Hitchhiker comes into possession of the tome, it is taken into the ranks of the Sunny Family Cult. Roger comes into possession of the tome and learns of a ritual to gain power as a monster. He kidnaps his niece, Taylor, who fits the description of the girl required for the ritual, in order to carry it out.

### Season 3

#### Divine Creatures

Roger shows Taylor the Crypt Tome as he tells her his plan to become a monster.

#### Violence in Her Soul

After killing Roger, Taylor takes all the possessions she can find, including the Crypt Tome, and leaves the motel.

## Shelley (2018-2019)

Somehow, some pages of the Crypt Tome have made it to England, where they have come into the possession of Acton Manor principal J. Highgate.

### Season 2

#### Chemical Reaction

The pages of Soot and Aponi from the Crypt Tome are on Highgate's desk under a folder labelled "confiscated".

## Crypt Monster Universe

### *Nobody's Sheep* (2018)

While looking for books, Becca finds the Crypt Tome in the library at Journey High. She drops it when she is attacked by Catherine.

### *Camp Monster* (2019)

During a flashback Counselor Richard reading what is presumed to be the book while going to retrieve the campers. It is unknown how many copies of the book the camp possesses but it appears to be used as reference material when documenting various monsters.

## Contents

### Ritual Page

The page describes a ritual that will turn someone into a monster. The page shows an illustration of five dead bodies laying in a star shape with the one facing the reader bearing a stabwound on their chest. A girl with hair covering her face sits in the middle of the circle holding a bloodied knife above her head. Above the circle are illustrations of Aponi, The Mordeo, and The Look-See reaching out to the circle.

The top of the page reads, with the bullet-pointed requirements for the ritual:

> *"A girl of seventeen with violence etched into her soul...*
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> *...At the moment of her greatest weakness..."*
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> * *Black hair*
> * *Red eyes*
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More bullet points on the bottom of the page read:

* *A blood sacrifice of four victims*
* *The fifth will become something greater than a man*

### The Look-See's Pages

The Look-See's page features a text written in some sort of symbols or code and has a picture of a clock on it, with the Latin phrase "tempus edax rerum". On the other page there are five different illustrations:

* The Look-See's gloved hand.
* The Look-See's mouth.
* A man tearing of his skin to reveal skin similar to that of The Look-See.
* A pocket-watch.
* A clawed hand with a blue glove similar to that in "The Second Hands".

## Appearance

The Crypt Tome is a large book with a tattered deep-brown cover.

## Trivia

* The book seems to be based on The Necronomicon, an ancient tome in the works of H.P. Lovecraft that possesses untold arcane knowledge on the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods.
* It is unknown how many copies of this tome exist in-universe.
* The Latin phrase "tempus edax rerum", which is visible on the page describing The Look-See, translates to "devouring time".
* On a Twitch stream on December 5th, 2022, Alyssa Onofreo described the Crypt Tome as "having a mind of its own" and "choosing" who it wants to possess it.

## Gallery

### Appearances

#### Shelley

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## References

1. ↑ *Mordeo*, Episode 2, "Offering". Sottak, Ben and Russell, Steven (writers) & Sottak, Ben (director) (January 4th, 2019)
2. ↑ *Mordeo*, Episode 3, "Hunger". Sottak, Ben and Russell, Steven (writers) & Sottak, Ben (director) (January 18th, 2019)
3. ↑ *Mordeo*, Episode 4, "Desperation". Sottak, Ben and Russell, Steven (writers) & Sottak, Ben (director) (February 1st, 2019)
4. ↑ *Mordeo*, Episode 5, "No Escape". Sottak, Ben and Russell, Steven (writers) & Sottak, Ben (director) (March 8th, 2019)
5. ↑ *Sunny Family Cult*, Season 3, Episode 3, "Divine Creatures". Younes, Gabriel (writer) & William Ross, John (director) (September 18th, 2019)
6. ↑ *Sunny Family Cult*, Season 3, Episode 4, "Violence in Her Soul". Younes, Gabriel (writer) & William Ross, John (director) (September 25th, 2019)
7. ↑ *Shelley*, Season 2, Episode 2, "Chemical Reaction". Conway, Natalie and Stanley-Ward, Peter (writers) & Stanley-Ward, Peter (director) (January 25th, 2019)
8. ↑ *Troubled Youth II: Nobody's Sheep* (dir. Emily Dell; October 12th, 2018)
9. ↑ *Camp Monster* (dir. Peter Stanley-Ward; June 21st, 2019)