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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.
Evil Dead is an American comedy horror franchise created by Sam Raimi consisting of five feature films and a television series. The series originally revolves around the grimoire the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, an ancient Sumerian text that wreaks havoc upon a group of cabin inhabitants in a wooded area in Tennessee.
In The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, the Evil is released by Ash and his friends with only Ash the survivor as he and Annie use the Necronomicon to give its entirety a corporeal form, thus creating the "Rotten Apple Head", a large demonic tree-like creature with the faces of its victims on the side, before Ash sends it to the Netherworld.
He also helped design the Book of the Dead (or the Necronomicon) as it appears onscreen, [2] and drew the pen-and-ink illustrations, glyphs, and sigils seen on the pages of the book. [1] After the success of The Evil Dead, which was released in 1981, Sullivan worked as an effects artist and animator on its 1987 sequel Evil Dead II. [3]
Ashley Joanna "Ash" Williams [2] is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Evil Dead franchise. Created by Sam Raimi, he is portrayed by Bruce Campbell and is the only character to appear in each entry of the series, including a post-credits and audio cameo in the 2013 and 2023 films, respectively.
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 ...
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft: Commemorative Edition is a select collection of horror short stories, novellas and novels written by H. P. Lovecraft. The book was published in 2008 by Gollancz and is edited by Stephen Jones .