After years of research into the Necronomicon, there are still a few pieces which we lack. If anyone can help us find them, it would be appreciated.
A book from the English publisher Finbarr, this has shown up on eBay a few times. It's said to be someone else's vision of the Necronomicon. We'd be interested to hear from anyone who's read it.
From Melusina Press of Rome. We know nothing else about it.
A handwritten work on stage magic by the late magician Tony Andruzzi. This may have been under a slightly different title.
In a letter to Henry Kuttner dated November 30, 1936, Lovecraft made the statement that
Since there are no convenient Weird Tales archives available, I have no idea of what sort of statement this might have been, or where it might be found. It most likely would have appeared in the October, Novembern or December, 1936, issues of Weird Tales.
The young fan Donald A. Wollheim wrote a review of a fictional "W. T. Faraday" edition of the Necronomicon for a local paper, the Branford Review. A partial version of this review is reprinted in H. P. Lovecraft and Willis Conover's Lovecraft at Last.
It is likely that this piece appeared in the Branford Review after it was merged with the East Haven News. I have looked over a microfiche covering the period between Wollheim's meeting Lovecraft and the letter from Conover which brought it to Lovecraft's attention, but have not found it. This may be due to the incomplete nature of the archive, or my own failure to locate the proper piece out of two years' worth of archives.
Occult expert Gerald Suster is said to have reviewed the Hay Necronomicon shortly after its publication. We have reason to believe that this was published in the International Times around 1978, but we have been unable to locate any issues from that year.
Magickal Childe, publisher of the Simon Necronomicon, supposedly put together a rock opera version of Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law in 1980. The piece was adapted by Simon, the Necronomicon's translator/author, and performed by a famous rock band.
One of the first editions of the Simon Necronomicon to appear on the Net was "The Coroner's Necronomicon". The manuscript included notes from a Christian perspective, and mentions a file called "Back up to the Necronomicon" written by a "Doctor Dos". The file was held at a California BBS called "The Morgue" ((208) 743-4720); I do not believe that it is still in operation.
A booklet published with this infamous grimoire that supposedly described how to use it in magical practice. I've yet to see one.
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