• Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    I can’t imagine the utter disappointment of the undoubtedly many customers receiving their order an unpacking it: the real Necronomicon was supposed to be bound in human skin while this one is in mere leather (real or faux?) ;)

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    I have a necronomicon :) My friend got it for me as a housewarming gift many many years ago.

    Mine is a lot thicker than that one, though? I’d love to see one of these in person to compare them.

    • wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      10 days ago

      Multiple people wrote a “necronomicon” the most famous one(Which might be this one, it looks similar), is Simon’s Necronomicon. It got the most traction as a tool for chaos magic despite being panned(like every other necronomicon) as being a fraud.

      So you might have a different necronomicon from a different author.

      • arctanthrope@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 days ago

        despite being panned(like every other necronomicon) as being a fraud

        is there any indication that it was ever a real book, even apocryphally? I thought it was wholly invented by Lovecraft, did he get it from somewhere else? and if not, what does it mean to be a “fraud” of an entirely fictional book?

        • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          It was invented by Lovecraft. The authors cashing in on it by writing versions of it are all from long after he had died.

        • EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.caEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          I thought it was wholly invented by Lovecraft

          Yeah I think that’s right. Here’s a wikipedia entry. Lovecraft invented it and developed a fictional history for it, but he never wrote it as a book. It was a fictional book that made appearances in the mythos of his actual books.

          I’ve read a bunch of Lovecraft, and enjoyed most of it. IMO he was shit at character development, but fantastic at creating a mythos and foreboding atmosphere of evil lurking just under the surface.

        • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu
          1·
          10 days ago

          Yeah fraud is the wrong word for this as there is no original book. At least Simon’s was written by a guy who did practice ritual magic and was somewhat recognized in the NY occult scene. I don’t know about the others so they may be more obvious cash grabs.