From the editor : "This is the testimony of all that I have seen, and all that I have learned.... For this is the Book of the Dead, the Book of the Black Earth, that I have writ down at the peril of my life." -H.P. Lovecraft himself denied the Book's existence, but the dreaded NECRONOMICON has finally surfaced. Written in Damascus in the Eighth Century A.D. by the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, the accursed volume is filled with myths and rituals that have survived the darkest days of magic and occultism -long-forgotten formulae for evoking incredible things, beings, and monsters into physical appearance. Editor Simon overcame huge obstacles during his daring efforts to bring to light this, the most famous, the most potent, and potentially, the most dangerous Black Book known to the Western World...

Note: Prominently noted in H.P. Blavatsky's massive two-volume opus The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky describes the book: "An Archaic Manuscript - impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknown process - is before the writer's eyes - written in a language known as Senzar..."

In this connection to note that the first appearance of the Necronomicon in Lovecraft's work, which occurs in "The Hound", refers to its information on "the ghastly soul-symbol of the corpse-eating cult of inaccessible...

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Special Interest: Forbidden Books, Opening The Gates of the Underworld, Grimoire, Occult, Black Magick, Seals of Occult Power, Ritual, Demonology, Sorcery, Secret Orders, Book of the Dead.