Have any totsians read the Necronomicon? I recently purchased it from borders and it's a great book. I'm a theistic satanist, and since the traveler is islam, I find my beliefs and his beliefs getting confused. Am I crazy that I would like to eventually go to "the empty space" and try to recreate this journey? Can some theistic satanist clearify if the Necronomicon fits in with the belief? I didn't pick it up because I expected it to fit in with my beliefs, I just got it because I heard about it from several people and it turned out to be one of the best books I have ever read.

the necronomimcon is fiction

You should check out the book of Eibon. It's even better, and was written by Yog-Shoggoth itself.

Heh, I'm not that far yet but R'yleh is my favorite place so far. Most likely because I find the Cthulhu to be the greatest. Does anybody believe that it is Non-Fiction?

quote:Originally posted by godzillaroar2000:

Heh, I'm not that far yet but R'yleh is my favorite place so far. Most likely because I find the Cthulhu to be the greatest. Does anybody believe that it is Non-Fiction?

What? Non fiction? It was written by A fiction writer you fool. Look-It-Up

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quote:Originally posted by godzillaroar2000:

Heh, I'm not that far yet but R'yleh is my favorite place so far. Most likely because I find the Cthulhu to be the greatest. Does anybody believe that it is Non-Fiction?

I was joking. The Necronomicon was a literary devise used by HP Lovecraft, and a circle of pulp horror writers in the first quarter of the 20th century. The book of Eibon was another such fake book. They allowed other writers to use their works so that readers would think the multiple, "independent" sources proved it was real.

Any copy of the book you find in a store is a damned atrocity to anyone who is actually a fan of the Mythos. Lovecraft never wrote one, only opportunistic jackasses trying to make a buck off of 13 year old Hot Topic kids wrote the various "Necronomicons" that you occasionally see in stores.

Sorry to break it to you. If you like the idea though, go pick up an anthology of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

quote:Originally posted by SurahAhriman:

I was joking. The Necronomicon was a literary devise used by HP Lovecraft, and a circle of pulp horror writers in the first quarter of the 20th century. The book of Eibon was another such fake book. They allowed other writers to use their works so that readers would think the multiple, "independent" sources proved it was real.

Any copy of the book you find in a store is a damned atrocity to anyone who is actually a fan of the Mythos. Lovecraft never wrote one, only opportunistic jackasses trying to make a buck off of 13 year old Hot Topic kids wrote the various "Necronomicons" that you occasionally see in stores.

Sorry to break it to you. If you like the idea though, go pick up an anthology of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

I thought the original Necronomican was written by alistor crowley? That's why I stand by my statement that it's just as much fiction as the bible

The necronomican is kinda like mormonism, except that john smith wrote the book of mormon.

I know people who take that book seriously, They have fucked up their lives so bad, its not even funny.

quote:Originally posted by bushy:

The necronomican is kinda like mormonism, except that john smith wrote the book of mormon.

I know people who take that book seriously, They have fucked up their lives so bad, its not even funny.

What do you mean?

yea I'd like to pick up a copy of the mythos.

Lovecraft himself stated many times that it was not real.

Of course though it can be traced back to other real occult works which have the same sort of context.

A letter by H.P Lovecraft himself:

To Robert Bloch (May 9, 1933):

By the way—there is no “Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred.” That hellish & forbidden volume is an imaginative conception of mine, which others of the W.T. group have also used as a background of allusion.

And:

To Harry O. Fischer (late February, 1937):

The name “Abdul Alhazred” is one which some adult (I can’t recall who) devised for me when I was 5 years old & eager to be an Arab after reading the Arabian Nights. Years later I thought it would be fun to use it as the name of a forbidden-book author. The name Necronomicon...occurred to me in the course of a dream.



By all means that should be enough to make you understand that it is not real.



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