okay so, when I was a kid I really liked the Give Yourself Goosebumps gamebook series. Here's an excerpt from "The Knight in Screaming Armor," a page I dog-eared because of my childhood hypno kink:

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“COME FORWARD!” the Evil Knight repeats from the darkness behind the door. His voice works some evil magic on you. You see black and white spirals spinning before your eyes. You struggle to look away, but you can’t.

“COME FORWARD! COME FORWARD!” he booms. You are hypnotized by his command.
“No!” Abbey cries. “Cover your ears! Don’t listen to him! Don’t go in there! I command you!”

But still your feet shuffle forward.

You get a funny feeling as you pass through the doorway. Somehow, you know this room isn’t on the official map of the Medieval Museum. But still, you’ve just got to see what’s in there!

“Stop!” Kip yells as you enter the dark room. “It could be a torture chamber, or filled with hungry beasts! Come back!”

Poor Kip, he could never understand …