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A forbidden book from the [[Lovecraft mythos]].

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[[Abdul Alhazred]]'s handy guide to demonology, in the [[Lovecraft mythos]]. All fulla dread secrets and tales of the [[Elder Gods]], not to mention darker Hints about the Universe. Rare as it is, many a pallid, sensitive young intellectual has come to a messy end by study of its direly blasphemous pronouncements. (Many [[collectors]] have gone digging around in libraries for it, but actually the nearest thing to such a volume is the grimoire, several of which were written by medievals. The index-cards you'll find in the files of the Library at Yale University ["In rare book collection... bound in leather believed human"] turned out to be a [[hoax]].) Only a meagre portion of the text has wide circulation; [[bibliophile]] [[Coswal]], cautioning against fakes, explains that the only genuine Necronomicon quotes are those forged by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. All other forgeries are imitations. 
 
Necronomicon apparently was used as a name for the [[Weird Tales Club|league organization]] sponsored by [[Weird Tales]], from which the [[Washington Outsiders]] descended. 
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([[Lovecraft]]) - A book by [[Abdul Alhazred|Alhazred]], the mad Arab, full of dread secrets and tales of the [[Elder Gods]], and darker hints, which [[Lovecraft]] often referred to in his stories. Many [[collectors]] have gone digging around in libraries for it, but it actually does not exist, the nearest thing to it being some shadowy books by medievals. Necronomicon apparently was used as a name for the [[Weird Tales Club|league organization]] sponsored by ''[[Weird Tales]]'', from which the [[Washington Outsiders|Outsiders' Club]] is descended. We append an incantation to [[Lovecraft Mythos|Yog-Sothoth]], taken from the Necronomicon: "''Ygnaiih - ygnaiih - thflthkh'ngha - Yog-Sothoth - y'bthuk  h'ehye - n'grkdl'lh.''" 
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[[Owlswick Press]] published a small edition of the '''Necronomicon''' as its first volume in 1973.  It was apparently ghost-written (how else?) by [[L.  Sprague de Camp]], but consisted entirely of Arabic script.  The Library of Congress balked at registering the copyright on the grounds that it was a reprint....

* [https://www.sacred-texts.com/nec/index.htm Necronomiconic works.]
* [https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Necronomicon Entry at Lovecraft Wiki.]


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