Books : The Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind The Legend
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by: Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce III
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
EAN: 9781578632695
ISBN: 1578632692
Label: Red Wheel / Weiser
Manufacturer: Red Wheel / Weiser
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: July 01, 2003
Publisher: Red Wheel / Weiser
Release Date: July 01, 2003
Sales Rank: 189518
Studio: Red Wheel / Weiser
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Necronomicon-- a mere glance at its pages sends its readers shrieking into the night, their soul seared for all eternity! At least that's what people want you to believe Thank goodness authors Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce III set the record straight in this scholarly yet accessible history of the dreaded tome. The Necronomicon Files is an incredibly comprehensive guide to the Necronomicon that covers all aspects, legends and factual history surroundsing this nefarious book. From a complete history of the book as it evolved in the Cthulhu mythos started by Lovecraft and continued by others, to contemporary editions now available to the public. From appearances and references in movies and other media, to the actual magical concepts behind the fictional and published Necronomicon variants. Much more than just a dry, factual acoount, Harm's and Gonce's deep knowledge in their respective fields of interest bring the history and continuing influenceof the Necronomicon alive with wit and verve. Humours and intriguing, this compassionate examination of the Necronomicon is a thorough repudiation of the myths surrounding it, yet preserves much of the romance and fascination associated with the legend.
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Rating:  - THE TRUTH!!!!
For decades, TEENAGERS all over the world who turn away from the worship of JESUS CHRIST have been drawn to THE NECRONOMICON and other of Simon's books, seeking information on BLACK DEVIL WORSHIP MAGIC, of which Mr. Simon is an EXPERT. THE NECRONOMICON only serves to increase their ACCESS to that information. My childrens' minds and the minds of other peoples' children should never be suffered to see such blasphemy as is in THE NECRONOMICON. Is it possible? JESUS teaches to be on guard and without ... Read More
Rating:  - Hokey but okay...
An interesting and well-researched take on the existence - or lack thereof - of H. P. Lovecraft's infamous tome, 'The Necronomicon Files' remains badly flawed. These flaws rest largely on John Wisdom Gonce III's side (now there's a name to conjure with). While Daniel Harms does a good job of following the 'Necronomicon's history in literary and fandom circles, Gonce is far less convincing attempting to give us the occult side of the story.
The primary problem is his assumption that magic(k) ... Read More
Rating: - Informative but flawed
The Necronomicon Files is a book which contains much information about a curious phenomenon: the life that a fictional book took on after it's creator passed away. This is a very interesting phenomenon for both studying the human need to believe in things which do not exist and the lengths that those who are faced with overwhelming evidence of an idea's falsehood will go to cling to it. Let me state that I am fully in agreement with the authors' conclusions that a pre-Lovecraft Necronomicon has no basis ... Read More
Rating:  - Informative, intelligent, and important
I've read just about everything BY Lovecraft and lots of stuff ABOUT Lovecraft, and this is one of the most valuable books, aside from HPL's own writing, that I have come across. In my early days I was haunted by the feeling that underneath Lovecraft's fiction were hints of something horribly TRUE, that his work has endured not only because of its artistic merits, but because he had somehow synthesized his voracious reading and vivid dreaming into content that tapped into archetypal sources of human fear. ... Read More
Rating: - The Truth Explained
I've read, studied and been interested in the Necronomicon since I first saw it in films like The Evil Dead and a hanful of H.P. Lovecraft film adaptions as a teenager, eventually getting both the Simon Necronomicon and the Necronomicon Spellbook. At the time I purchased this book I was pretty sure it was a hoax, as the author explains kind of early on. The Necronomicon has its uses both as Lovecraft's literary device, a prop in an entertaining B movie, and as an interesting occult grimoire. This book has everything ... Read More
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