Pulver, Sr., The Leaves of a Necronomicon traces the impact of a single copy of the mysterious work on its owners and those around them as it passes from hand to hand across the decades. Under the guidance of Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Joseph S. Instead, the book rewards their pursuit with madness and devastation. For centuries, scholars of the occult have sought out the darkly fabled tome, hoping to gain insight into the secret workings of the universe-or unbridled power. Please leave a rating and review to let us know how it went for you."What will you discover when you meet this gallery of fools and villains and dreamers?" -Joseph S. We hope you'll enjoy the contents of this app. Three additional volumes have since been published - The Necronomicon Spellbook, a book of pathworkings with the 50 names of Marduk Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon, a history of the book itself and of the late 1970s New York occult scene and The Gates Of The Necronomicon, instructions on pathworking with the Simon Necronomicon. The blurb states it was "potentially, the most dangerous Black Book known to the Western World". Despite its contents, the book's marketing focused heavily on the Lovecraft connection and made sensational claims for the book's magical power. Going into trade paperback in 1980 it has never been out of print and has sold 800,000 copies by 2006 making it the most popular Necronomicon to date. It was later dubbed the "Simon Necronomicon". This book, by the pseudonymous "Simon," had little connection to the fictional Lovecraft Mythos but instead was based on Sumerian mythology. The line between fact and fiction was further blurred in the late 1970s when a book purporting to be a translation of "the real" Necronomicon was published. Lovecraft in his book History of the Necronomicon, which is generally considered pseudo-history, is about a book originally named Al Azif. You can find lots of sites discussing the Necronomicon especially in the satanistic and urban shamanistic corners of the Internet. Necronomicon is the book that never existed, or at least that is what I believe, even though more than a dozen of books claims to be the original translation.
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