French writer Jacques Bergier in his book traces the dramatic fate of a number of amazing manuscripts, manuscripts and books from ancient times to the present day. This is the mysterious "Book of Thoth"; "Jiang's Stanzas"; a book that deprives one of sanity - “Excalibur”; the manuscript of the work of the Russian scientist M. M. Filippov and some others. All these creations of the human mind were destroyed in one way or another. And the reason for this phenomenon, to which the author attributes the destruction of the famous Library of Alexandria, the greatest treasury of human knowledge, J. Bergier sees in one thing: their content threatened the existence of earthly civilization. From Bergier's "Cursed Books" the reader learns who, according to the author, takes upon himself the functions of protecting humanity from self-destruction. Bergier's book was published in 1971 and, naturally, was written on the basis of the facts that the author had at that time. However, most of them have not lost their significance and interest even now.