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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 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 .
"History of the Necronomicon" is a short text written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1927, and published in 1938. [1] It describes the origins of the fictional book of the same name: the occult grimoire Necronomicon, a now-famous element of some of his stories.
Book to be spoken on the day of the Festival of the New Moon. [83] 142. Book for making the transfigured spirit excellent, enabling hi to proceed free in his steps, to go out by day, in any form he wishes, to know the names of Osiris in all his places where he may wish to be [33] 143. (illustration after the litany covering chapters 141-142) [33]
The original Book of Iod is written in the "Ancient Tongue", possibly a combination of Greek and Coptic. While its origin is unknown within the narrative, the Book of Iod may have been written by the mysterious author "Khut-Nah", which sounds remarkably like Kuttner. The Book of Iod contains details about Iod, the Shining Hunter, Vorvados, and ...
Alhazred is a 2006 Cthulhu Mythos novel by Canadian writer Donald Tyson. [1] The book is a follow-up to Tyson's 2004 "translation" of the Necronomicon.Like Tyson's Necronomicon and related works, Alhazred draws heavily from the work of early 20th-century American fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft.
Lin Carter, author of Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos, calls "The Festival" "the first Mythos story to use witch-haunted Kingsport as a setting", and also credits it with advancing the lore of the Necronomicon, saying that it is "the first tale to give a lengthy quote from the imaginary book and to tell us something about its history (i.e., that Olaus Wormius translated it into ...
He is reported to have disappeared with his family's copy of the Necronomicon in 1926 in Lovecraft's short story "History of the Necronomicon". The priest Atal appears as a boy and youth in two earlier tales, " The Cats of Ulthar " (1920) and " The Other Gods " (1933), respectively, which fully describe places and events alluded to in The Dream ...