1) Horror short story 2) Short story by HP Lovecraft 
The Book can refer to: As referred to in works of fiction, The Book may be ...[short story] `The Book` is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft`s death. In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home an...