Alhazred & Necronomicon

[Old Dwarf]

This started out as a fairly typical Sunday Morning.
Macys was having a Sale and my wife wanted to check it out.
The nearest Macys is about 50 minutes away in a Mall,
The Mall opens at 11 so we usually stop at a diner for breakfast
and then go to a Barns & Noble Book Store across from the Mall
which opens at 9.so we can kill some time before we go to the Mall.

My wife heads off to the'Touchie feelie" and Art sections and I
go to the SiFi/Fantasy/Horror Section.I crusing around seeing
nothing too interesting and run into a Special Lovecraft
display...but its not stuff by Lovecraft himself instead
there are books by Donald Tyson.

I pick up Alhazred which is the story of the Mad Arabs life all
667 pages(why didn't he stop at 666?) and also Necronomicon
which is ..well The NECRONOMICON!

Both these books are suppose to be totally faithful to Lovecraft's
Mythos and tie everything together (a damn big job to pull off).
There were also a couple of other books by him,one was sort of
a Whos,Who in the Mythos and one were the actual spells from
the Necronomion with instructions on how to cast them.

These I didn't get as I'm not hot to visit Leng or Call Hastur
but they looked impressive and not the hack jobs that
other books of this ilk tend to be.

I haven't started reading them yet,so we'll see but being in a Lovecraft
mood with Mansions of Madness I thought they were cool purchases.

OD

[Scavenous]

I didnt know there was an actual Necronomicon book. I always thought the closest thing to it was Alhazred. As I understood it, Alhazred is about his adventures that lead to his "coming to power", and that he then wrote those down (which was the Necronomicon). I could be wrong though, because if thats true then those two books should almost be identical.

Ive read Alhazred, and its one of my favorites. Certainly a heft, but extremely worth it. If you can stand the eye strain, I read the whole book by candle-light.

[Old Dwarf]

Tyson's Necronomicon is a seperate & much shorter book first published in 2004 ,it's now in its 9th printing (and I've never heard of this Guy before).
I've read several chapters of Alhazred last night and I agree it's worth the price.

Candle-light great idea!

OD

[Old Dwarf]

Alhazred-the more I read the more I see what Tyson is doing,he's actually pulling together the various parts of Lovecrafts' Mythos
into a coherent story line,even quoting parts of HLP works (I've just finished getting through the Nameless City part).
Love this stuff.

OD