Research Catalog

Title

Necronomicon : the wanderings of Alhazred / Donald Tyson.

Author

Tyson, Donald

Publication

St. Paul, Minn. : Llewellyn, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937

Description

xviii, 269 p. : ill., map; 26 cm.

Summary

A "supposed" translation of H.P. Lovecraft's 1920 forbidden text: Necronomicon.

Subject

• Magicians > Fiction
• Middle East > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Occult fiction
• Fantasy fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• List of illustrations -- Prefatory note / by Olaus Wormius -- Concerning the Life of Abdul Albazred by Theodorus Philetas -- Howlings in the Desert -- Rapture of the empty space -- Lustful demons and angry demons -- The Eaters of the Dead -- Many-towered Irem, Its Wonders and Pitfalls -- The dweller in the caverns -- The lost city beneath Irem -- The starlit chamber of seven gates -- The First Portal, Leading to the Plateau of Leng -- The Second Portal, Leading to the City of Heights -- The Third Portal, Leading to Sunken R'lyeh -- The Fourth Portal, Leading to Yuggoth -- The Fifth Portal, leading to Atlantis -- The Sixth Portal, Leading to Kadath -- The Seventh Portal, Leading to the Temple of Albion -- What may be safely written of the Old Ones -- Yig, Corresponding with the Sphere of Saturn -- Yog-Sothoth, Corresponding with the Sphere of Jupiter -- Cthulhu, Corresponding with the Sphere of Mars -- Azathoth, Corresponding with the Sphere of Sol -- ^
• Shub-Niggurath, Corresponding with the Sphere of Venus -- Nyarlathotep, Corresponding with the Sphere of Mercury -- Dagon, Corresponding with the Sphere of Luna -- The Great Seal of the Old Ones, Known As the Elder Seal -- The Underground River A'zani -- Memphis, City of Mummies -- Concerning the Tombs of Wizards -- The Uncanny Ways of Cats, and their cult -- The Riddle of the Sphinx Interpreted -- The Resurrectionists in the Storehouse of Kings -- The essential Salts and Their Use -- The Valley of the Dead -- Walking Corpses Above the Second Cataract -- The book Markets of Alexandria -- The ziggurats and the Watchers of Time -- The Tower of Babel and the Fall of the Watchers -- The Ruins of Babylon -- U'mal root and Its manner of harvest -- The Valley of Eden -- The wisdom seat -- The Monastery of the Magi -- Inner grounds of the Sons of Sirius -- The secret purpose of the Magi -- Why the Stars Are Not Right -- The thing Beneath the Library -- Why the Old Ones Do Not Die -- ^
• Concerning Shoggoths -- The formula of Yug -- The Well of life -- The Relic of the Hebrews -- Wanderers on the Road to Damascus -- The rite of the Companion -- Terms of the Covenant with Shub-Niggurath -- Soul bottles -- The Lane of Scholars -- The secret of Damascus Steel -- The burial Ground at Damascus -- The Conclusion to the Journey.

ISBN

0738706272

LCCN

^^2004057750

OCLC

• 56532646
• SCSB-11909530

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library