![]() ![]() Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is recognized as one of the world masters of tales of the macabre. There never was such a book, not nowhere, not no-how, before that. Once and for all: the Necronomicon is fiction, pure fiction, invented by H. Was Lovecraft on to something that even he didn't realize the magnitude of, or is all this just a big sham? ![]() So what's the deal? Is there any factual basis to this stuff? A lot of people claim that even the rituals contained in the "fake" versions actually work. Some of the older libraries in Europe and on the east coast of America are rumored to own copies, and there has even been talk that the Third Reich procured one in the 40's. But browsing around some of the web sites about the fabled book, I find quite a few reports that the book is real, and that there might actually be copies that pre-date Lovecraft by hundreds of years. You can go into a bookstore in most shopping malls or any of the big book chains online and purchase a few volumes that claim to be the "real" Necronomicons, but apparently these are forgeries done by Lovecraft's contemporaries who wanted to give his monsters in the Cthulhu Mythos more legitimacy. Lovecraft fan, I'm aware that he is credited with the creation of "The Necronomicon," the dreaded book of the dead that has been featured in numerous movies (the Evil Dead series, The Dunwich Horror, etc.) as well as short stories by other authors. ![]()
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