Necronomicon, Selected Stories and Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab; Call of Cthulhu Fiction
Oakland, CA: A Chaosium Book, 1996. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. xvi+ 334pp. Illustrated covers, endnotes. A collection revolving around the Necronomicon, including a variety of Necronomicon based stories, several versions and fragments of the text, and three essays on it. Contents: Introduction by Robert M. Price; The Terrible Parchment by Manly Wade Wellman; Dr. Zander's Cottage by Martin D. Brown; The Mantle of Graag by Fredrick Pohl; Henry Dockweiller; and Robert A. W. Lowndes; Settler's Wall by Robert A. W. Lowndes; The Howler in the Dark by Richard L. Tierney; Demons of Cthulhu by Robert Silverberg; The Castle in the Window by Steffan B. Aletti; Concerning the Forthcoming Inexpensive Paperback Translation of the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred by John Brunner; The Adder by Fred Chappell; Preface to the Al Azif by L. Sprague de Camp; John Dee's Necronomicon by Frank Belknap Long; The Necronomicon: The Dee Translation by Lin Carter; The Sussex Manuscript by Fred L. Pelton; Why Abdul Al Hazred Went Mad by D. R. Smith; History of the Necronomicon by H. P. Lovecraft; Necronomicon by Robert C. Culp; The Saga of Abdul Alhazred by Stephen T. Larkin; The Life of the Master by David T. St. Albans; and A Critical Commentary upon the Necronomicon by Robert M. Price. From the library Clive Harper with his discreet book-label neatly tipped in at the rear. Harper is well- known as the bibliographer of Austin Osman Spare, for updating the Aleister Crowley bibliography in the 2011 Teitan Press collection of Gerald Yorke's writings, and as someone who has lent his expertise to numerous other publications. A tight, clean near Fine copy. Item #66520
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