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Order The Necronomicon Files from Amazon!. UPDATE, June 18, 2006: Yes, Simon's new book, Dead Names, is out. It seems he doesn't like us much. For an ongoing critique of the book, see Papers Falling from an Attic Window, my new blog. While I'm updating, also check out my article on Lovecraft and occultism, "Dreamer of the Dark", in Fortean Times. UPDATE, January 25, 2004: A quick update. Check out an interview with John and I at Paranoia Magazine and a review of the book at The Anomalist. UPDATE, December 19, 2003: Life's gone a little crazy lately. Thanks to all the neat people we met at the Real Witches' Ball, including M. R. Sellars, A. J. Drew, Tony Mierzwicki, Azure Green, Wendy Rule, Nema, and anyone else we've forgotten. As a favor to someone, I'm posting The History of Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten, a long-vanished Web classic. This is by special permission of the author until the end of January, so don't repost it elsewhere. (February 1: Too late.) UPDATE, October 19, 2003: Another review, this one from Goat and Candle, should attract your attention. I've not had time to do much more than update the errata, partially because I'm preparing for an appearance at Columbus' Real Witch's Ball. The Necronomicon Files is a collaborative work written by Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce III. It is to be published by Weiser, and you might find copies of the first publication from Night Shade Books. Our research indicates that the Necronomicon is a book of evil lore which first appeared in the works of the writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). This book became so popular that people started to write more stories featuring it, creating hoaxes, and finally writing entire Necronomicons (at the present writing, almost a dozen have appeared). The most popular of these is the Simon Necronomicon, first published in 1977, which is mainly Sumerian mythology with a little Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley thrown in for good measure. Another, the Hay Necronomicon, came out in 1978 and claimed to be a deciphered work by the Elizabethan thinker Doctor John Dee. None of these date to the specified period, and some (such as the Hay work) have been admitted to be hoaxes. I'm not going to tell you that this page contains the truth about the Necronomicon. That doesn't mean that the information here is bad, but every other Necronomicon site on the web claims to have the truth about the book, and I want to be different. The main problem with the whole Necronomicon debate is that people tend to believe what they're told. You are perfectly free to ignore this entire site and everything on it. If you want to debate us, however, you had better have some definite proof of your arguments. If you want a quick introduction to the Necronomicon controversy and our position, you can check out A Dialogue on the Necronomicon. Those who have made up their minds that the book exists should examine our views on the Necronomicon and how you can accumulate evidence to refute us. The lost sections of The Necronomicon Files
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