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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.
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🐙 The Necronomicon is a fictional book created by H. P. Lovecraft. It is the archetypal book of forbidden knowledge whose contents threaten one's sanity, and serves as one of the centrepieces of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
"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.
Cover of the Necronomicon book. Weird fiction author H.P. Lovecraft created a mythology that includes bizarre monsters, troubled communities, insane scholars and a library of books filled with forbidden lore.
The best-known of these fictional manuscripts is his Necronomicon, about which he said the most. So well-constructed was his information on this fabled text (helped along by modern-day hoaxers bent on making a profit from the ignorance of others) that people to this day believe this book to be real.
H.P. Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published.
In A.D. 950 the Azif, which had gained a considerable tho’ surreptitious circulation amongst the philosophers of the age, was secretly translated into Greek by Theodorus Philetas of Constantinople under the title Necronomicon.
Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmology that are as powerful today as they were when first published.
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. By H.P. Lovecraft, edited with an Afterword by Stephen Jones, and illustrated by Les Edwards. London: Gollancz; 2008; ISBN 978-0-57508-1-567 (hardcover) or 978-0-57508-1-574 (paperback); 880 pages.