![]() ![]() ![]() It consists of al-Hazred's account of his travelling quests for forbidden knowledge, his apprenticeship as a necromancer, and his attempts to summon various of the Great Old Ones - a blanket term for the many horrifying multidimensional entities created by Lovecraft, most notably including Cthulhu. The Necronomicon is generally depicted as an ancient book bound in human skin, an English translation of the blasphemous tome Al-Azif 2 by the Mad Arab Abdul al-Hazred - a name Lovecraft had used in Arabian Nights role-play in his childhood. The Necronomicon features prominently in the middle and late period fiction of HP Lovecraft, from about 1926, when The Call of Cthulhu was published, to 1937, the year of his death, according to HPL scholar ST Joshi 1, This was when he wrote the stories that are now collectively referred to as the Cthulhu Mythos. ![]() However, a more informed analysis points to -icon as a generic Greek noun ending, so the name may more accurately be translated as 'Concerning the Ways of the Dead'. With a rough knowledge of Ancient Greek, he parsed the name thus: HP Lovecraft said in letters to some of his many correspondents that the name Necronomicon came to him in a dream, as did much of the inspiration for his fiction. Contrary to much popular speculation, the Necronomicon is actually a fictional concept, created by Howard Philips Lovecraft, an early 20th Century author of 'weird fiction'. ![]()
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