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reply posted on 5-8-2002 @ 09:02 AM by Byrd
Tyler, could you please provide sources?

Lovecraft (I've got several collections of his stories) never claimed to have written the Necro. It's just a book that he made up (in fact, he said it was written by "the mad Arab".)

Now... I did a bunch of poking around when the book first appeared in the 1970's, as did other members of my coven. My notes are long lost, however I've found this page which correlates with what we found (and adds some new notes (we didn't have access to Lovecraft's notes and there hadn't been any collections of his letters published))
www.geocities.com...

That's how we knew it was fake.

For those of you new to this issue, Lovecraft's works were reissued in the 1970's and late 60's in paperback form -- this during the time of Alfred Hitchcock's tv show and Outer Limits; when science fiction went from monsters-in-rubber-suits to more sophisitcated forms. Following the publication of the Lovecraft collections, there were a number of fake Necronomicon editions that suddenly appeared. To those of us seriously studying Magick and systems of belief, the fakes were unbelievably silly (and just plain wrong.)

Here's researcher Cecil Adams' page ("The Straight Dope"): www.straightdope.com...

Now, Tyler, if you've got some counter proof, both Cecil Adams and I would surely love to know about it. You can write and set him straight, too... but be sure to provide good references or expect to be laughed at in print.


reply posted on 7-8-2002 @ 02:27 PM by Byrd
If it's a published book, then there's a record of who published it, where they were, and who the author was (or what pseudonym was used.)

If it's dating back to the time when books were handwritten, there will be other public records of it (books were owned by the wealthy at those times or by monastaries. They were catalogued.

In either case, once you know the original "book" you can then examine the book to see if the language is consistant with the time when it was supposed to have been written (or if it's faked.) You can judge the source material (even in the case of the very inventive Dr. Dee... he had sources for his occult experiments) and see how authentic it is.

And, of course, looking at the typography will tell you a lot about a printed book (often what era it was printed in).

But... investigative procedures aside, you haven't actually offered us any proof that you have such a manual in your possession and that it is the "authentic" one -- and the one that Lovecraft copied/used as research/whatever.

Lovecraft says in his private letters that he made it up though he was once tempted to write a fake one. Scholars say that the book doesn't exist and that existing copies are simply fakes.

If you've got something that destroys these claims, there's a number of us (as well as a number of scholars) who would be interested in it. And if it's good enough, then yes, it should be offered to the library with the most extensive collection of Lovecraftian material for authentication. It would be a valuable piece of literary evidence.

...if it's for real.

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