*NEW* To celebrate Halloween, we're putting up an essay on the Simon Necronomicon. After you get done there, check out another piece by a friend of ours entitled The Simonomicon (and me) *NEW*
*NEW* Did Lovecraft's wife know Aleister Crowley, and gain her Necronomicon knowledge from him? An Internet document claims these things, but Colin Low, its author, has some new thoughts. Click on the first essay you see on this page. Then look around for information on Western mystery traditions.*NEW*
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UPDATE: Night Shade Books has chosen not to publish a paperback version of the Necronomicon Files. If you
see listings for it on Amazon or elsewhere, they probably haven't caught up with the news just yet. We are in search of a new publisher, as people's responses to the limited edition have been stellar. Those who can't wait, or collectors who want a first-edition hardback, should try sources such as Hastur Hobbies and Mythos Books
. This site will continue to serve as a forum for free Necronomicon-related information.
*NEW*You can check out the three book reviews of the Files by Bkwyrm, Lisa Dumont and Chaos magician Phil Hine. They're all wonderful, but they're all we could find. If you find other reviews (on-line or off-), please let us know.*NEW*
The Necronomicon Files is a collaborative work written by Daniel Harms
and John Wisdom Gonce III and published by
Night Shade Books.
Our research indicates that the Necronomicon is a book of evil lore which first
appeared in the works of the writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). This book
became so popular that people started to write more stories featuring it,
creating hoaxes, and finally writing entire Necronomicons (at the present
writing, almost a dozen have appeared). The most popular of these is the
Simon Necronomicon, first published in 1977, which is mainly Sumerian
mythology with a little Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley thrown in for good
measure. Another, the Hay Necronomicon, came out in 1978 and claimed to be a deciphered work by the Elizabethan thinker Doctor John Dee. None of these date to the specified period, and some (such as the Hay work) have been admitted to be hoaxes.
I'm not going to tell you that this page contains the truth about the
Necronomicon. That doesn't mean that the information here is bad, but every
other Necronomicon site on the web claims to have the truth about the book, and I want to be different. The main problem with the whole Necronomicon debate is that people tend to believe what they're told. You are perfectly free to ignore this entire site and everything on it. If you want to debate us, however, you had better have some definite proof of your
arguments.
If you want a quick introduction to the Necronomicon controversy and our position, you can check out A Dialogue on the Necronomicon. Those who have made up their minds that the book exists should examine our views on the Necronomicon and how you can accumulate evidence to refute us.
Items of general interest
- If there's no real Necronomicon, what's that book you have? Check our annotated bibliography of Necronomicon-related items;
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