The Necronomicon (fiction)

The Necronomicon

Details

Publisher: Oakland, CA : Chaosium, Inc., 1996

Page Count: 351 p.

Author(s): Robert M. Price, editor

Artist(s): Harry Fassl, cover; Earl Geier, David Pudelwitts, illustrations

Summary

Selected stories and essays concerning the blasphemous tome of the Mad Arab. .

Contents

• • "Introduction (The Figure in the Flying Carpet)", Robert M. Price
• Obscure Tales
  • "The Terrible Parchment", Manly Wade Wellman
  • "Dr. Xander's Cottage", Martin D. Brown
  • "The Mantle of Graag", Frederick Pohl", Henry Dockweiller, and Robert A.W. Lowndes
  • "Settler's Wall", Robert A.W. Lowndes
  • "The Howler in the Dark", Richard L. Tierney
  • "Demons of Cthulhu", Robert Silverberg
  • "The Castle in the Window", Steffan B. Aletti
  • "Concerning the Forthcoming Inexpensive Paperback Translation of the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred", John Brunner
  • "The Adder", Fred Chappell
• Versions of the Necronomicon
  • "Preface to the Al-Azif", L. Sprague de Camp
  • "John Dee's Necronomicon: A Fragment", Frank Belknap Long
  • "The Necronomicon: The Dee Translation", Lin Carter
  • "The Sussex Manuscript", Fred L. Pelton
  • "Why Abdul Al Hazred Went Mad", D. R. Smith
• Commentary
  • "History of the Necronomicon", H. P. Lovecraft
  • "The Life of the Master", David T. St. Albans
  • "A Critical Commentary Upon the Necronomicon", Robert M. Price.

Comments / Trivia

Chaosium publication 6012. ISBN 1-56882-070-4. Part of the Call of Cthulhu Fiction line.

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