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Title: Al Azif: The Necronomicon by Abdul Alhazred, L. Sprague De Camp ISBN: 1-58715-043-3 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: January, 1973 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (41 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Creative Decoration
Comment: This book makes for a good shelf decoration, at best. While it is intriguing that the bulk of the text is in Arabic, the Necronomicon is indeed a work of fiction. For those skeptical of the truth, merely go to http://www.necfiles.org/
As this site in particular says, "the Necronomicon is a book of evil lore which first appeared in the works of the writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). This book became so popular that people started to write more stories featuring it, creating hoaxes, and finally writing entire Necronomicons (at the present writing, almost a dozen have appeared). The most popular of these is the Simon Necronomicon, first published in 1977, which is mainly Sumerian mythology with a little Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley thrown in for good measure. Another, the Hay Necronomicon, came out in 1978 and claimed to be a deciphered work by the Elizabethan thinker Doctor John Dee. None of these date to the specified period, and some (such as the Hay work) have been admitted to be hoaxes."
Everyone is so quick to say that the Necronomicon does exist, and begs for others to disprove its existence. That has been done. If you want to scream from the rooftops that it does, you should have evidence to back you up. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVING YOUR CLAIMS.
Although I would recommend this book, it would be amongst peers that understand that it is purely a work of creative fiction.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fact
Comment: To everyone who believes the Necronomicon to be a fake here's a history lesson. In the 16th Century, Elizabeth I of England had a man called John Dee as advisor. John Dee found and translated the Necronomicon into English from it's Latin and Arabic original form. The book was kept in the British Natural History Museum until recently. Now, if the book is fictitious and made up by Lovecraft, how is it possible that Dee translated it over 300 years before Lovecraft was born? Also, the infamous Yog does not exist in the Necronomicon in any shape or form. The novel with it's three stories was rumoured by Lovecraft to have been based on nightmares he had after reading John Dee's translation.
So to anyone who doesn't believe in either John Dee or the book he translated, search for him. He was into scrying and magic. So if the Necronomicon is complete fiction, how did Dee translate it all those centuries ago?
I thank you
Rating: 5
Summary: A lovingly created hoax in tribute to Lovecraft
Comment: I can well remember learning of how de Camp and others put together a very obvious fake Necronomicon and published just enough in hard copy for the major research institutions to keep a copy in their library.
I got a chance to look over one of the copies at BU's department of special collections. It was treated as exactly as if it were the real thing, which is part of the hoax as conceived by de Camp.
If you examine this carefully, the pages of pseudo arabic repeat after a point, giving you page after page of arabic gibberish.
All in all, a loving tribute in the same spirit that has guided fans of Holms to publish in his name the articles that he supposedly wrote.
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Title: Necronomicon by Ed Simon ISBN: 0380751925 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 March, 1980 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Necronomicon Spellbook by Simon ISBN: 0380731126 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind Lovecraft's Legend by Daniel Harms, John Wisdom, III Gonce ISBN: 1578632692 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft ISBN: 034542204X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 14 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Necronomicon by George Hay, Colin Wilson ISBN: 1871438160 Publisher: Skoob Books Pub Ltd Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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