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Statue of H. P. Lovecraft, the author who created the Necronomicon as a fictional grimoire and featured it in many of his stories. The Necronomicon, also referred to as the Book of the Dead, or under a purported original Arabic title of Kitab al-Azif, is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers.
Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness, also known as Necronomicon: The Gateway to Beyond and Necronomicon : L'Aube des ténèbres in French, is a 2000 video game developed by Wanadoo Edition and released for Windows and the PlayStation video game console.
Necronomicon Press, American small-press publishing house, founded in 1976; Published works: Simon Necronomicon, 1977 grimoire, and best-known such work avoiding conventions of modern fictional narratives; Necronomicon (H. R. Giger), 1977 compendium of images by that Swiss artist
This design for an amulet comes from the Black Pullet grimoire.. A grimoire (/ ɡ r ɪ m ˈ w ɑːr /) (also known as a book of spells, magic book, or a spellbook) [citation needed] is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural ...
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The most famous work appearing in the mythos is the Necronomicon. Many fictional works of arcane literature appear in H. P. Lovecraft's cycle of interconnected works often known as the Cthulhu Mythos. The main literary purpose of these works is to explain how characters within the tales come by occult or esoterica (knowledge that is unknown to ...
Shadow of the Comet, a game which takes place in the 19th century, is strongly inspired by the myth of Cthulhu. The 1998 text adventure game Anchorhead is heavily inspired by Lovecraftian Horror and features many elements of the Cthulhu mythos, as well as quotes from Lovecraft. Quake, a FPS game that has Lovecraftian elements.
Giger's Necronomicon is named for H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire Lovecraft invented and used as a plot device in his stories. [1] Giger's Necronomicon was influential in the design of the 1993 video game Doom inspiring some of the disturbing environments and hellish monsters. [5]