My Understanding of the Great Booke

Origin: The Lurker in the Crypt

Description

This volume contains Kindler's rambling and insane speculations concerning life, death, apparitions, transcendental phenomena, black magic, white magic, the achievement of objectivity through blood sacrifices, the tasks and purposes of the "mightie devills" (by which he means the Great Old Ones), and much more.

The text correlates with a Gothic translation of the Necronomicon, not further identified. This otherwise unknown edition of the horrible book apparently differs substantially from the known editions since Kindler claims it "offers proofs logickal and glorious" of the "stellar numbers, potentiated objecks, signs and passes, probatories, phylacteries, and craftsmanly artes" required for a succession of Mythos spells. As Kindler would have it, the Gothic version is nothing less than an analytical edition of the Necronomicon which makes plain that book's bafflements and obscurities. Should Kindler's insane prose be accedpted as evidence, presumably the Gothic version would cost even more Sanity to read and to comprehend than the original Arabic.

• Author: Joachim Kindler
• Language: English
• Date: 1641
• Number of known copies (if rare): unknown
• Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): unknown
• Sanity loss: 1D6+1
• Cthulhu Mythos: +5
• Spells: none

Appearances

• Call of Cthulhu Scenario: "The Lurker in the Crypt"