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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.
Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges.
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Banned in the US in the 1930s until the early 1960s, seized by US Customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest of Miller's work was also banned by the US. [287] Also banned in South Africa until the late 1980s. [288] The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John Steinbeck: 1939 *Unknown* Novel Was temporarily banned in many places in the US.
PEN America, which gathers a broader dataset from school districts, school board hearings, and local media outlets, reports that over 10,000 books were removed from public schools (at least ...
Here are 15 books PEN America says were most frequently banned in the first part of the 2022-23 school year. 1. “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe. ... USA TODAY Sports.
Today, the target of book censorship may be either a print, electronic, or audiobook, or a curriculum that includes such sources. [17] [6] [18] Targeted texts may be held by a business such as a bookstore; a library, either a public library or one located in a school or university; or the school or university as a whole. [19]
The Necronomicon is crafted in an empty desert as its creation falls outside the realm of the approved methodologies and research of Western academia. When the Necronomicon appears throughout history it is suppressed by the authorities due to its heretical nature and often appears in times when there are perceived occult activities, such as in ...