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{{adventuretop|name=Take a Look, it's in a Book!|image=bookshelf.gif|num=889}}
As you're wandering through the Spookyraven Library, you notice a shelf full of particularly interesting books.

Which one would you like to peruse?
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{{button|Read "The Fall of the House of Spookyraven"}}

{{choice
|name=History is Fun! (The Fall of the House of Spookyraven)
|image=openbook.gif
|noline=yes
|choice1name=Read Chapter 1: Things Get Weirder
|choice2name=Read Chapter 2: Stephen and Elizabeth
|choice3name=Read Chapter 3: Last Days}}
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{{button|Read "To Serve Man... Delicious Cocktails"}}

You flip through the bartending guide. Interesting....

It says here that if you mix
:''first ingredient''
with
:''second ingredient''
that you'll get
:''resulting item''
Huh. You'll have to try that one sometime.
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{{button|Read "Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Yoga, a Beginner's Guide"}}

You read the book of Ancient Forbidden Unspeakable Yoga, and try out a few of the positions. They provide a surprisingly good workout, but a few of them put your head places man was not meant to see.
{{stat|mus=gain <mainstat>±4 in {{muscle}}, capped at 75}}
{{HP|type=lose|amount=10-15|element=spooky}}
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{{button|Read the dictionary}}

You start reading the dictionary, but you only get up to 'abacus' before you get bored, and decide to just take the dictionary with you instead.

{{acquire|item=dictionary}}
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{{button|Reading is for losers. I'm outta here.}}

You're afraid of literature, apparently, so you bail.
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Occurs in [[The Haunted Library]].

== Notes ==
* The cocktail book shows the ingredients and result of a random [[cocktailcrafting]] recipe. Recipes that require advanced skills will not appear.
* Recipes learned here are added to your discoveries page with a message:
:Congratulations! You just discovered a new recipe!
* Once the dictionary is picked up, the option no longer appears.
* Leaving does not consume an adventure, and banishes the noncombat from the zone for 10 turns.

==History==
*On May 15th, 2014 Spookyraven Manor was revamped, and this adventure was changed from Choice Adventure #81 to Choice Adventure #889.
**Previously, clicking the third book from the left on the top of the book shelf opened a [[Stairs Up|replacement staircase]] which allowed you to go up to the top floor of the manor. 
:Upon clicking the book it gave this message:
::''You try to pull one of the books off of the shelf, but it only comes out halfway, because it's apparently connected to some sort of secret switch. You hear a rumbling from out in the hallway, so you run to investigate.''
::If you [[Broken Stairs|broken the stairs]]:
::''You look toward the source of the rumbling, and see a sturdy-looking reinforced metal staircase descending from the ceiling to replace the ruined stairs. The Spookyraven family must've had that installed as a backup in case of catastrophic stairway failure. Lucky you!''
::If you hadn't [[Broken Stairs|broke the stairs]]:
::''You look toward the source of the rumbling, and see a sturdy-looking reinforced metal staircase descending from the ceiling, crushing the existing wooden staircase. Curious.''
:Clicking the book a second time will used to give this message:
::''You're very clever and all, but that trick only works once. The secret staircase has already been revealed.''
*On January 7, 2019, the 'Read the dictionary' option was added, in response to the removal of the [[abridged dictionary]] from [[Barrrtleby's Barrrgain Books]] on December 31, 2018.

== References == 
*"Take a Look, it's in a Book!" is a reference to the popular PBS kids show, [[Wikipedia:Reading Rainbow|Reading Rainbow]].  It is a line from the theme song.
* ''The Fall of the House of Spookyraven'' is likely a reference to the short story [[Wikipedia:The Fall of the House of Usher|The Fall of the House of Usher]], by [[Wikipedia:Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe]]. Together with ''The Rise of the House of Spookyraven'', the two titles may also be a reference to ''[[wikipedia:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich|The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich]]''.
*"Particularly interesting books" and the ability to learn a recipe is likely a reference to [[Wikipedia:Dragon Quest VIII|Dragon Quest VIII]], in which you can sometimes learn alchemy recipes by reading from bookshelves you come across. (Some bookshelves weren't readable - the message when you examined one of these was "None of these books appear particularly interesting.")
*The book titled "To Serve Man... Delicious Cocktails" is a reference to the short story [[wikipedia:To Serve Man|To Serve Man]], in which a seemingly friendly alien race leaves a book on earth titled "To Serve Man", only for it to be discovered that it is actually a cookbook. There is also a [[wikipedia:Twilight Zone|Twilight Zone]] episode with the same plot.

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