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Lovecraft's unwritten Necronomicon was the Happy Birthday of weird fiction
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Lovecraft's unwritten Necronomicon was the Happy Birthday of weird fiction

At the molehill of madness

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Oct 30, 2024
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The Necronomicon is an alarming and unpleasant "Book of the Dead" to be found in H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror, but not elaborated upon in his own work. I thoroughly enjoyed Dan Harms' article about literary executor August Derleth's robust policing of the Necronomicon's mystery. This typically took the form of…

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