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