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* In Creator/LairdBarron's works, such as ''Literature/TheCroning'', the recurring villains, [[AliensAreBastards the intergalactic menace]] known as "the Children of the Old Leech", who are the main antagonists behind the AncientConspiracy, reveal that they frequently and gleefully invoke the trope. They do this because they are {{Emotion Eater}}s, and a human mind caving in under the weight of a truth it simply cannot bear has a very special and absolutely delicious taste to them.
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* In Creator/LairdBarron's works, such as ''Literature/TheCroning'', the his recurring villains, [[AliensAreBastards the intergalactic menace]] known as "the Children of the Old Leech", who are the main antagonists behind the AncientConspiracy, reveal that they frequently and gleefully invoke the trope. They do this because they are {{Emotion Eater}}s, and a human mind caving in under the weight of a truth it simply cannot bear has a very special and absolutely delicious taste to them.
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* ''Literature/ThePerfectRun'': Ryan jokes about this constantly, claiming that anyone who learns his true name will go mad, that anyone looking into his technology will weep with terror, so on and so on. Like many of his jokes, he's hiding the truth behind humor. People have had bad reactions to learning about Ryan's [[MentalTimeTravel full power]] before, and when a Psycho looks at Ryan's [[spoiler:rabbit plushie]] with his superpower, he starts ''screaming''.
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* ''Literature/TheBookOfEve'': The Mother reveals the truth of his vile actions to Abramo, causing him to undergo an IdentityBreakdown and start raving incoherently. The Book itself has a disturbing effect on those who read it, showing them their darkest secrets and trauma, though fortunately the effect is temporary.
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* In ''Literature/ConstanceVerityDestroysTheUniverse'', any computer Doctor Malady puts to the task of creating a device to find The Key sees something in the calculation that turns it into a MurderousMalfunctioningMachine with a single-minded obsession with killing Constance Verity. His robotic wife Automata goes into kill bot mode and deactivates her own off-switch, while one of the computers Malady tried putting to the task jury-rigged itself a [=WiFi=] connection and tried launching missiles in her general location. Malady deduces that because The Key is the ultimate source of entropy and the Caretaker Mantle is the ultimate source of negentropy (the diametric opposite of entropy), them colliding would be so incomprehensibly disastrous that [[LogicBomb the AI's inability to comprehend it drives it mad]]. This is also implied to have an effect on prophets and seers, resulting in various agents being sent to kill Connie under the presumption that she will destroy the universe.
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* Creator/NKJemisin's ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'': {{Justified|Trope}} with TheReveal that [[spoiler:Sieh is Kahl's father but had [[LaserGuidedMemory had his memory of the fact removed]]. The knowledge literally [[YourDaysAreNumbered starts to kill him]] when he remembers because parenthood is incompatible with Sieh's nature as God of Childhood.]]
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** Seeing the true form of the titular ''Literature/{{It}}'' tends to drive a person crazy. [[spoiler: The approximate idea of It's true form resembles a giant spider, though, like in Lovecraft's works, It is not actually a spider or anything even remotely terrestrial. It's just the closest concept our brains can grasp.]]
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** Seeing the true form of the titular ''Literature/{{It}}'' ''Literature/{{It}}'', the [[LightIsNotGood Deadlights]], tends to drive a person crazy.people to insanity. [[spoiler: The approximate idea of It's true form resembles a giant spider, though, like in Lovecraft's works, It is not actually a spider or anything even remotely terrestrial. [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm It's just the closest concept our brains mind can grasp.comprehend]].]]
