![]() How Lovecraft conceived the name Necronomicon is not clear-Lovecraft said that the title came to him in a dream. Ĭapitalizing on the notoriety of the fictional volume, real-life publishers have printed many books entitled Necronomicon since Lovecraft's death. Lovecraft approved of other writers building on his work, believing such common allusions built up "a background of evil verisimilitude." Many readers have believed it to be a real work, with booksellers and librarians receiving many requests for it pranksters have listed it in rare book catalogues, and a student smuggled a card for it into the card catalog of the Yale University Library. ![]() Other authors such as August Derleth and Clark Ashton Smith also cited the Necronomicon in their works. Among other things, the work contains an account of the Old Ones, their history, and the means for summoning them. It was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1924 short story " The Hound", written in 1922, though its purported author, the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, had been quoted a year earlier in Lovecraft's " The Nameless City". The Necronomicon, also referred to as the Book of the Dead, or under a purported original Arabic title of Kitab al-Azif, is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. Lovecraft created the Necronomicon as a fictional grimoire and featured it in many of his stories.
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