The original Codex Gigas is held at the in Stockholm (shelfmark A 148). In 2007, the library completed a high-resolution, full-color digital facsimile.

So go ahead. Download the PDF. Turn to page 290.

By midnight, he realized the task was impossible. So he did the unthinkable: he sold his soul to the Devil.

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And try not to feel like something is staring back.

To avoid this fate, the monk made a desperate promise. He would write, in a single night, a book containing all human knowledge—including the Old and New Testaments, medical texts, exorcism rituals, and historical chronicles.