Tyson sets about "expositing the ways of the dead." The
Necronomicon is, of course, that eldritch but mythical work of
Cthulhu lore often referred to throughout the creepy and gurgling
pages of H.P. Lovecraft, the purple pen of Providence, Rhode
Island. Here, his skin-crawling nonexistent tome is lifted from the
mists of fantasy and loathsomely fleshed out by Tyson, famed dealer
in magic and spells and scribe of much nonfiction on magic and the
occult (The Power of the Word: The Secret Code of Creation, not
reviewed). Long centuries ago, as a youth in Yemen and student of
necromancy, Abdul Alhazred sets out to find the arcane wisdom of
the ages. He travels through Arabia deserta to the lost city of
Irem and hence to Babylon and other unnatural cities that housed
the monstrous Old Ones (who will break through again, shapes
without substance), and at last to Damascus as he gathers forbidden
knowledge for a grisly grimoire of the dead filled with the very
lispings of Yog-Sothoth. Cousins to Great Cthulhu, the Old Ones
still walk among us, unseen and foul in the lonely places. Their
hand is at your throat. Cthulhu himself, man-shaped, bat-winged,
and as big as a mountain, flies between the stars, the formless
mass of his face hung with many ropes or soft branches and
throbbing with a watery softness-for he has no skull. When the
stars fix aright, he will rise in fury, and no gods or men will be
able to withstand his force. (NB: One needs the essential salts and
a large copper kettle, stirred with a long wooden ladle, when
corpses of royal blood or wizards are boiled for resurrection.)
Scholarly horror, marvelously illustrated. Or as Lovecraft, in a
wild ecstasy that's quoted here, would praise it: Ph'nglui
nigliv'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeb wgab'nagl fhtagn. Id! (Kirkus Reviews)
Anyone familiar with H. P. Lovecraft's work knows of the
Necronomicon, the black magic grimoire he invented as a literary
prop in his classic horror stories. There have been several
attempts at creating this text, yet none stand up to Lovecraft's
own descriptions of the Necronomicon . . . until now. Fans of
Lovecraftian magic and occult fiction will delight in Donald
Tyson's "Necronomicon, " based purely within Lovecraft's own
fictional universe, the Cthulhu Mythos.
This grimoire traces the wanderings of Abdul Alhazred, a
necromancer of Yemen, on his search for arcane wisdom and magic.
Alhazred's magical adventures lead him to the Arabian desert, the
lost city of Irem, ruins of Babylon, lands of the Old Ones, and
Damascus, where he encounters a variety of strange creatures and
accrues necromantic secrets.
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