ALLEGED QUOTATIONS FROM THE

NECRONOMICON (AL AZIF)

OF THE MAD ARAB ABDUL ALHAZRED
Compiled by Dan Clore from sundry sources
Fake title page of the Dee edition
from the Hay-Wilson-Turner-Langford Necronomicon
H.P. Lovecraft
From "The Nameless City" (1921); also, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926):
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Translation of unknown provenance.
From "The Festival" (1923):
The nethermost caverns are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their
marvels are strange and terrific. Cursed the ground where dead thoughts live ne
w and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. Wisely did Ibn Sc
hacabao say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the tow
n at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumour that the soul of
the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the v
ery worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull sc
avengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great h
oles are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to
walk that ought to crawl.
Translated from the awkward Low Latin of Olaus Wormius' forbidden translation by
a patient at St. Mary's Hospital in Arkham while recovering from a "psychosis".
From "The Dunwich Horror" (1928):
Nor is it to be thought, that man is either the oldest or the last of earth'
s masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. The Old On
es were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know,
but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.
Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and
guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He know
s where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through ag
ain. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread th
em, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometim
es know Them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the fe
atures of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts
, differing in likeness from man's truest eidolon to that shape without sight or
substance which is Them. They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the W
ords have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The wind gi
bbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They be
nd the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand tha
t smites. Kadath in the cold waste hath known Them, and what man knows Kadath? T
he ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon The
ir seal is engraven, but who hath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower
long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet ca
n he spy Them only dimly. I! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Th
eir hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even o
ne with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the
spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where ma
n rules now. After summer is winter, and after winter summer. They wait patient

and potent, for here shall They rule again.

Mentally translated by Dr. Henry Armitage, looking over the shoulder of Wilbur W
hateley in the Library of Miskatonic University, from the Latin version of Olaus
Wormius, as printed in Spain in the seventeenth century.
From "The Dunwich Horror" (1928):
N'gai, n'gha'ghaa, bugg-shoggog, y'hah;
Yog-Sothoth, Yog-Sothoth [....]
Fragment of an incantation as recited by Wilbur Whateley and as recalled by Henr
y Armitage; language unknown.
Cf. this pair of formulae from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927):
Y'AI 'NG'NGAH,
YOG-SOTHOTH
H'EE--L'GEB
F'AI THRODOG
UAAAH

OGTHROD AI'F
GEB'L--EE'H
YOG-SOTHOTH
'NGAH'NG AI'Y
ZHRO
From Selected Letters III (1929):
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Some things are just too horrible to write, even for a mad Arab....
From "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (1932-33; with E. Hoffmann Price):
And while there are those who have dared to seek glimpses beyond the Veil, a
nd to accept HIM as a Guide, they would have been more prudent had they avoided
commerce with HIM; for it is written in the Book of Thoth how terrific is the pr
ice of a single glimpse. Nor may those who pass ever return, for in the Vastness
es transcending our world are Shapes of darkness that seize and bind. The Affair
that shambleth about in the night, the Evil that defieth the Elder Sign, the He
rd that stand watch at the secret portal each tomb is known to have, and that th
rive on that which groweth out of the tenants within -- all these Blacknesses ar
e lesser than HE Who guardeth the Gateway; HE Who will guide the rash one beyond
all the worlds into the Abyss of unnamable Devourers. For HE is 'UMR AT-TAWIL,
the Most Ancient One, which the scribe rendereth as THE PROLONGED OF LIFE.
Translation of unknown provenance.
In E. Hoffman's Price's original draft of this story, which was produced under t
he title "The Lord of Illusion", this quotation runs as follows:
And while there are those who have had the temerity to seek glimpses of beyo
nd the Veil, and to accept HIM as a guide, they would be more prudent to avoid c
ommerce with HIM; for it is written in the Book of Thoth how terrific is the pri

ce of but one glimpse; and none who pass may return, for they will be firmly bou
nd by those who lurk in the vastnesses that transcend our world. The terrors of
the night, and the evils of creation, and those that stand watch at the secret e
xit that it is known each grave has, and thrive on that which grows out of the t
enants thereof; these are lesser powers than he who guards the Gateway, and offe
rs to guide the unwary into the realm beyond this world and all its unnamed and
unnameable Devourers. For HE is 'UMR AT-TAWIL, which signifieth, THE MOST ANCIEN
T ONE, which the scribe hath rendered as THE PROLONGED OF LIFE.
From Letters to Henry Kuttner (1936):
"the volume that cannot be" (perhaps the Book of Iod.)
IX, 21 -- p. 598 of the black-letter German copy (in Latin) in the Miskatonic Un
iversity Library. Translation of unknown provenance.
Frank Belknap Long
From "The Space Eaters" (1928):
The cross is not a passive agent. It protects the pure of heart, and it has
often appeared in the air above our sabbats, confusing and dispersing the powers
of Darkness.
From the English translation of John Dee.
The mention of the cross, as well as the anachronistic reference to mediaeval-re
naissance witches' sabbaths, marks this passage as a later, Christian, interpola
tion.
From "A Fragment" (?date):
It must not be thought that the powers capable of greatest wickedness appear
to us in the form of repellent familiars, and other, closely related demons. Th
ey do not. Small, visible demons are merely the effluvia which those vast forms
of destructiveness have left in Their wake -- skin scrapings and even more tenuo
us shreds of evil that attach themselves to the living like leeches from some gr
eat slain leviathan of the deep that has wreaked havoc on a hundred coastal citi
es before plunging to its death with a thousand hurled harpoons quivering in its
flesh.
For the mightiest powers there can be no death and the hurled harpoons infli
ct, at most, surface injuries which heal quickly. I have said before and I shall
say again until my tardily earned wisdom is accepted by my brethren as fact--in
confronting that which has always been and always will be a master of magic can
know only self-reproach and despair if he mistakes a temporary victory for one
that he can never hope permanently to win.
Paragraphs Seven and Eight -- Page 30, Book Three, of the John Dee translation.
Slightly modernized.
Clark Ashton Smith
From "The Nameless Offspring" (1931):
Many and multiform are the dim horrors of Earth, infesting her ways from the
prime. They sleep beneath the unturned stone; they rise from the tree with its
root; they move beneath the sea and in subterranean places; they dwell in the in
most adyta; they emerge betimes [sic; see note below] from the shutten sepulchre
of haughty bronze and the low grave that is sealed with clay. There be some tha
t are long known to man, and others as yet unknown that abide the terrible latte
r days of their revealing. Those which are the most dreadful and the loathliest

of all are haply still to be declared. But among those that have revealed themse
lves aforetime and have made manifest their veritable presence, there is one whi
ch may not openly be named for its exceeding foulness. It is that spawn which th
e hidden dweller in the vaults has begotten upon mortality.
Translation of unknown provenance.
Smith has been criticized for the apparent
times", which normally means in good time,
can also mean "from time to time", as this
sic Gothic romance Melmoth the Wanderer: A

inaccuracy of the use of the word "be

early, soon, etc. However, "betimes"
quotation from Charles Maturin's clas
Tale demonstrates:

When his honour sat in the kitchen in winter, to save a fire in his own room
, he could never bear the talk of the old women that came in to light their pipe
s betimes, (from time to time).
A letter from Smith to Lovecraft gives an earlier version of this quotation:
Manifold and multiform are the horrors that infest the visible ways and the
ways unseen. They sleep beneath the unturned stone; they rise with the tree from
its root; they move beneath the sea and in subterranean places; they dwell unch
allenged in the inmost adyta; they emerge betimes from the shutten sepulcher of
haughty bronze and the low grave that is sealed with earth. There be some that a
re long known to man, and others as yet unknown that abide the terrible future d
ays of their revealing. Those which are the most dreadful and the loathliest of
all, are haply still to be declared. But among those that have revealed themselv
es aforetime and have made manifest their veritable presence, there is one which
may not openly be named for its exceeding foulness. It is that spawn which the
hidden dweller in the vaults has begotten upon mortality.
From "The Return of the Sorcerer" (1931):
It is verily known by few, but is nevertheless an attestable fact, that the
will of a dead sorcerer hath power upon his own body and can raise it up from th
e tomb and perform therewith whatever action was unfulfilled in life. And such r
esurrections are invariably for the doing of malevolent deeds and for the detrim
ent of others. Most readily can the corpse be animated if all its members have r
emained intact; and yet there are cases in which the excelling will of the wizar
d hath reared up from death the sundered pieces of a body hewn in many fragments
, and hath caused them to serve his end, either seperately or in a temporary reu
nion. But in every instance, after the action hath been completed, the body laps
eth into its former state.
Translated from the Arabic by a certain Mr. Ogden from a manuscript in a private
collector's possession; the passage is wholly omitted in the Latin of Olaus Wor
mius.
Robert Bloch
From "The Fane of the Black Pharaoh" (1937):
[....] the Place of the Blind Apes where Nephren-Ka bindeth up the threads o
f truth [....]
Translation of unknown provenance.
Henry Kuttner
From "The Salem Horror" (1937):
Men knew him as the Dweller in Darkness, that brother of the Old Ones called
Nyogtha, the Thing that should not be. He can be summoned to Earth's surface th

rough certain secret caverns and fissures, and sorcerers have seen him in Syria
and below the black tower of Leng; from the Thang Grotto of Tartary he has come
ravening to bring terror and destruction among the pavilions of the great Khan.
Only by the looped cross, by the Vach-Viraj incantation and by the Tikkoun elixi
r may he be driven back to the nighted caverns of hidden foulness where he dwell
eth.
Translation of unknown provenance. Transcribed from a copy in the Kester Library
.
The anachronistic reference to the great Khan (Jenghiz Khan), marks this passage
as a later interpolation.
Manly Wade Wellman
From "The Terrible Parchment" (1937):
Chant out the spell and give me life again.
Many minds and many wishes give substance to the worship of Cthulhu.
"H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth"
(i.e., August Derleth)
From The Lurker at the Threshold (1945):
Never is it to be thought that man is either oldest or last of the Masters o
f Earth; nay, nor that the great'r part of life and substance walks alone. The O
ld Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces kno
wn to us, but between them, They walk calm and primal, of no dimensions, and to
us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate, for Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth
is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future -- what has been, wha
t is, what will be, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones brok
e through of old, and where They shall break through in time to come until the C
ycle is complete. He knows why no one can behold Them as They walk. Sometimes me
n can know Them near by Their smell, which is strange to the nostrils, and like
unto a creature of great age; but of Their semblance no man can know, save seldo
m in features of those They have begotten on mankind, which are awful to behold,
and thrice awful are Those who sired them; yet of those Offspring there are div
ers kinds, in likeness greatly differing from man's truest image and fairest eid
olon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They walk unseen, T
hey walk foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites ho
wled through at Their Seasons, which are in the blood and differ from the season
s of men. The winds gibber with Their voices; the Earth mutters with Their consc
iousness. They bend the forest. They raise up the waves. They crush the city -yet not forest or ocean or city beholds the hand that smites. Kadath in the cold
waste knows them, and what man knows Kadath? The ice desert of the South and th
e sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraven, but who has
seen the deep frozen city of the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and ba
rnacles? Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. As a fou
lness shall They be known to the race of man. Their hands are at the throats of
men forever, from beginning of known time to end of time known, yet none sees Th
em; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is
the key to the gate whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where once They rul
ed; soon They shall rule again where man rules now. After summer is winter, and
after winter summer.They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign agai
n, and at Their coming again none shall dispute Them and all shall be subject to
Them. Those who know of the gates shall be impelled to open the way for Them an
d shall serve Them as They desire, but those who open the way unwitting shall kn
ow but a brief while thereafter.

'Twas done then as it had been promis'd aforetime, that He was tak'n by Thos
e Whom He Defy'd, and thrust into ye Neth'rmost Deeps und'r ye Sea, and placed w
ithin ye barnacl'd Tower that is said to rise amidst ye great ruin that is ye Su
nken City (R'lyeh), and seal'd within by ye Elder Sign, and, rag'g at Those who
had imprison'd Him, He furth'r incurr'd Their anger, and they, descend'g upon hi
m for ye second time, did impose upon Him ye semblance of Death, but left Him dr
eam'g in that place under ye great waters, and return'd to that place from whenc
e they had come, Namely, Glyu-Vho, which is among ye stars, and looketh upon Ear
th from ye time when ye leaves fall to that time when ye ploughman becomes habit
'd once again to his fields. And there shall He lie dream'g forever, in His Hous
e at R'lyeh, toward which at once all His minions swam and strove against all ma
nner of obstacles, and arrang'd themselves to wait for His awaken'g powerless to
touch ye Elder Sign and fearful of its great pow'r know'g that ye Cycle returne
th, and He shall be freed to embrace ye Earth again and make of it His Kingdom a
nd defy ye Elder Gods anew. And to His brothers it happen'd likewise, that They
were tak'n by Those Whom They Defy'd and hurl'd into banishment, Him Who Is Not
to Be Nam'd be'g sent into Outermost space, beyond ye Stars and with ye others l
ikewise, until ye Earth was free of Them, and Those Who Came in ye shape of Towe
rs of Fire, return'd whence They had come, and were seen no more, and on all Ear
th then peace came was unbrok'n while Their minions gather'd and sought means an
d ways with which to free ye Old Ones, and waited while man came to pry into sec
ret, forbidd'n places and open ye gate.
Concern'g ye Old Ones, 'tis writ, they wait ev'r at ye Gate, & ye Gate is al
l places and all times, for They know noth'g of time or place but are in all tim
e & in all place togeth'r without appear'g to be, & there are those amongst Them
which can assume divers shapes & Features & any Giv'n Shape & any giv'n Face &
ye Gates are for Them ev'rywhere, but ye 1st. was that which I caus'd to be op'd
, Namely, in Irem, ye City of Pillars, ye city under ye desert, but wher'r men s
ett up ye Stones and sayeth thrice ye forbidden Words, they shall cause there a
Gate to be establish'd & shall wait upon Them Who Come through ye gate, ev'n as
Dholes, & ye Abom. Mi-Go, & ye Tcho-Tcho peop., & ye Deep Ones, & ye Gugs, & ye
Gaunts of ye Night & ye Shoggoths, & ye Voormis, & ye Shantaks which guard Kadat
h in ye Cold Waste & ye Plateau Leng. All are alike ye Children of ye Elder Gods
, but ye Great Race of Yith & ye Gt. Old Ones fail'g to agree, one with another,
& boath with ye Elder Gods, separat'd, leav'g ye Great Old Ones in possession o
f ye Earth, while ye Great Race, return'g from Yith took up Their Abode forward
in Time in Earth-Land not yet known to those who walk ye Earth today, & there wa
it till there shall come again ye winds & ye Voices which drove Them forth befor
e & That which Walketh on ye Winds over ye Earth & in ye spaces that are among y
e Stars For'r.
Then shal They return & on this great Return'g shal ye Great Cthulhu be fre'
d from R'lyeh beneath ye Sea & Him Who Is Not to Be Nam'd shal come from His Cit
y which is Carcosa near ye Lake of Hali, & Shub-Niggurath shal come forth & mult
iply in his Hideousness, & Nyarlathotep shal carry ye word, to all the Gr. Old O
nes & their Minions, & Cthugha shal lay His Hand upon all that oppose Him & Dest
roy, & ye blind idiot, ye noxious Azathoth shal arise from ye middle of ye World
where all is Chaos & Destruction where He hath bubbl'd & blasphem'd at Ye centr
e which is of All Things, which is to say infinity, & Yog-Sothoth, who is ye All
-in-One & One-in-All, shal bring his globes, & Ithaqua shal walk again, & from y
e black-litt'n caverns within ye Earth shal come Tsathoggua, & togeth'r shal tak
e possession of Earth and all things that live upon it, & shal prepare to do bat
tle with ye Elder Gods when ye Lord of ye Great Abyss is apprised of their retur
n'g & shal come with His Brothers to disperse ye Evill.
From The Lurker at the Threshold (1945):
... be they visible or invisible, to them it maketh no difference, for they
feel them, & give voice.

From The Lurker at the Threshold (1945):

Ubbo-Sathla is that unforgotten [sic: "unbegotten"?] source whence came thos
e daring to oppose the Elder Gods who ruled from Betelgeuze; the Great Old Ones
who fought against the Elder Gods; and these Old Ones were instructed by Azathot
h, who is the blind, idiot god, and by Yog-Sothoth, who is the All-in-One and On
e-in-All, and upon whom are no strictures of time or space, and whose aspects on
earth are 'Umr At-Tawil and the Ancient Ones. The Great Old Ones dream forever
of that coming time when they shall once more rule Earth and all that Universe o
f which it is a part.... Great Cthulhu shall rise from R'lyeh; Hastur, who is Hi
m Who Is Not to Be Named, shall come again from the dark star which is near Alde
baran in the Hyades; Nyarlathotep shall howl forever in darkness where he abidet
h; Shub-Niggurath, who is the Black Goat With a Thousand Young, shall spawn and
spawn again, and shall have dominion over all the wood nymphs, satyrs, leprechau
ns, and the Little People; Lloigor, Zhar, and Ithaqua shall ride the spaces amon
g the stars and shall ennoble those who are their followers, who are the Tcho-Tc
ho; Cthugha shall encompass his dominion from Fomalhaut; Tsathoggua shall come f
rom N'kai.... They wait forever at the Gates, for the time draws near, the hour
is soon at hand, while the Elder Gods sleep, dreaming, unknowing there are those
who know the spells put upon the Great Old Ones by the Elder Gods, and shall le
arn how to break them, as already they can command the followers waiting beyond
the doors from Outside.
Armor against witches and daemons, against the Deep Ones, the Dholes, the Vo
ormis, the Tcho-Tcho, the Abominable Mi-Go, the Shoggoths, the Ghasts, the Valus
ians and all such peoples and beings who serve the Great Old Ones and their Spaw
n lies within the five-pointed star carven of grey stone from ancient Mnar, whic
h is less strong against the Great Old Ones themselves. The possessor of the sto
ne shall find himself able to command all beings which creep, swim, crawl, walk,
or fly even to the source from which there is no returning. In Yhe as in great
R'lyeh, in Y'ha-nthlei as in Yoth, in Yuggoth as in Zothique, in N'kai as in K'n
-yan, in Kadath in the Cold Waste as at the Lake of Hali, in Carcosa as in Ib, i
t shall have power; yet, even as stars wane and grow cold, even as stars die and
the spaces between stars grow more wide, so wanes the power of all things -- of
the five-pointed star-stone as of the spells put upon the Great Old Ones by the
benign Elder Gods, and there cometh a time as once was a time, when it shall be
shown that:
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange eons even death may die.
August Derleth
From The Trail of Cthulhu (1943-62):
For within the five-pointed star carven of grey stone from ancient Mnar lies
armor against witches and daemons, against the Deep Ones, the Dholes, the Voorm
is, the Tcho-Tcho, the Abominable Mi-Go, the Shoggoths, the Valusians and all su
ch peoples and beings who serve the Great Old Ones and their Spawn, but it is le
ss potent against the Great Old Ones themselves. He who hath the five-pointed st
one shall find himself able to command all beings who creep, swim, crawl, walk,
or fly even to the source from which there is no returning.
In the land of Yhe as in great R'lyeh, in Y'ha-nthlei as in Yoth, in Yuggoth
as in Zothique, in N'kai as in K'n-yan, in Kadath-in-the-Cold-Waste, as in the
Lake of Hali, in Carcosa as in Ib, it shall have power; but even as the stars wa
ne and grow cold, as the suns die, and the spaces between the stars grow more gr
eat, so wanes the power of all things -- of the five-pointed star-stone as of th
e spells put upon the Great Old Ones by the benign Elder Gods, and there shall c

ome a time as once there was a time, and it shall be shown that:
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange eons even death may die.
Translated from page 177 of the Latin translation of Olaus Wormius, copy residin
g at Miskatonic University Library.
From The Trail of Cthulhu (1943-62):
Whosoever speaketh of Cthulhu shall remember that he but seemeth dead; he sl
eeps, and yet he does not sleep; he has died, and yet he is not dead; asleep and
dead though he is, he shall rise again. Again, it should be shown that:
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange eons even death may die.
Great Cthulhu shall rise from R'lyeh, Hastur the Unspeakable shall return fr
om the dark star which is in the Hyades near Aldebaran, the red eye of the bull,
Nyarlathotep shall howl forever in the darkness where he abideth, Shub-Niggurat
h shall spawn its thousand young, and they shall spawn in turn and take dominion
over all wood nymphs, satyrs, leprechauns, and the Little People, Lloigor, Zhar
, and Ithaqua shall ride the spaces among the stars....
He who hath the five-pointed stone shall find himself able to command all be
ings which creep, swim, crawl, walk, or fly even to the source from which there
is no returning....
Fragments from a translation of unknown provenance.
Richard Tierney
From "The Howler in the Dark" (1957):
There are Ways in which the Mind of a man is like unto an Eye, in that it ca
n be used as a Lens to focus the Powers that exist in the Spaces between the Wor
lds. Indeed, the Mind of any Man can be used, when severed from the confining ti
es of the Flesh and put into a state of Trance, as a Weapon of great Power. To t
he sorcerer who brings such a Mind under his Control, nothing is impossible, for
he will be able to see into the farthest Lands of the World by means of that Mi
nd's Eye, and shall be able to inflict upon his Enemies a Vengeance of such Type
as will leave no slightest Mark, but shall cause them to expire with Fear and g
reat Terrors.
From the autograph manuscript of Dr. John Dee's translation.
Robert Silverberg
From "Demons of Cthulhu" (1959):
A Warning To Those Who Peruse This Book.
Title of opening section.
[....] Lightest of all are the slumbers of Narrathoth, who may be awakened b
y the veriest novice in the art. Narrathoth lies drowsing beyond the Great Gate,
hideous in form, servant to the sleeping Old Ones who wait for their day once m
ore to dawn. But Narrathoth may be summoned from his blasphemous dreams and forc
ed to serve. One who achieves control over him has access to the wealth of the w
orld; but great care must be exercised, for fear of Narrathoth's wrath, for even
he shares the might of the Old Ones, and pity be upon him who summons him and l
oses control.

Narrathoth is called by simple incantations. The blood of a male cat is need

ed, and the undergarment of a woman and [....]
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. I! Shub-Niggurath! Narrat
hoth! Narrathoth! Narrathoth!
End of the invocation from the summoning ritual of Narrathoth, found on page 638
.
I have called you by your True Name, Old One, and I command you to do my bid
ding.
Binding formula from the ritual to summon Narrathoth.
Version of unknown provenance, according to the title page: "Translated from the
Latin version of Olaus Wormius as printed in Spain in the seventeenth century."
Ramsey Campbell
From "The Church in High Street" (1964);
The tomb-herd confer no benefits upon their worshippers. Their powers are fe
w, for they can but disparage space in small regions and make tangible that whic
h cometh forth from the dead in other dimensions. They have power wherever the c
hants of Yog-Sothoth have been cried out at their seasons, and can draw to them
those who will open their gates in the charnel-houses. They have no substance in
this dimension, but enter earthly tenants to feed through them while they await
the time when the stars become fixed and the gate of infinite sides opens to fr
ee That Which Claws at the Barrier.
Copy in the British Museum; presumably, the Latin translation of Olaus Wormius.
From "The Horror from the Bridge" (1964):
As in the days of the seas' covering all the earth, when Cthulhu walked in p
ower across the world and others flew in the gulfs of space, so in certain place
s of the earth shall be found a great race which came from Outside and lived in
cities and worshipped in dark fanes in the depths. Their cities remain under the
land, but rarely do They come up from Their subterranean places. They have been
sealed in certain locations by the seal of the Elder Gods, but They may be rele
ased by words not known to many. What made its home in water shall be released b
y water, and when Glyu'uho is rightly placed, the words shall cause a flood to r
ise and remove at last the seal of those from Glyu'uho.
Copy in the British Museum; presumably, the Latin translation of Olaus Wormius.
From "The Plain of Sound" (1964):
Verily do we know little of the other universes beyond the gate which YOG-SO
THOTH guards. Of those which come through the gate and make their habitation in
this world none can tell; although Ibn Schacabao tells of the beings which crawl
from the Gulf of S'glhuo that they may be known by Their sound. In that Gulf th
e very worlds are of sound, and matter is known but as an odor; and the notes of
our pipes in this world may create beauty or bring forth abominations in S'glhu
o. For the barrier between haply grows thin, and when sourceless sounds occur we
may justly look to the denizens of S'glhuo. They can do little harm to those of
Earth, and fear only that shape which a certain sound may form in Their univers
e.
Translation of unknown provenance.

From "The Mine on Yuggoth" (1964):

The lizard-crustaceans arrive on Earth through their towers.
As Azathoth rules now as he did in his bivalvular shape, his name subdues al
l, from the incubi which haunt Tond to the servants of Y'golonac. Few can resist
the power of the name Azathoth, and even the haunters of the blackest night of
Yuggoth cannot battle the power of N-------, his other name.
[....] at those times of the year the lizard-crustaceans are glad of the lig
htlessness of Yuggoth.
Copy in the British Museum; presumably, the Latin translation of Olaus Wormius.
The "other name" of Azathoth is not given in the Necronomicon.
Gerald W. Page
From "Preface to the Necronomicon" (1966):
I, Abdul Al-Hazred, say this to you:
The Elder Gods have put the damned
To sleep. And they that tamper with the seals
And wake the sleepers, too, are damned.
And I say further, herein lies those spells
To break the seals that hold in thrall
Cthulhu and his ebon horde. For I
Have spent my life to learn them all.
So, fool, the darkness is pent up in space:
The gates to Hell are closed. You
Meddle at your own expense: When you call
They will wake and answer you.
This is my gift to mankind -- here are the keys.
Find your own locks; be glad.
I, Abdul Al-Hazred say this to you:
I, who tampered, and am mad.
Translation of unknown provenance.
Colin Wilson
From The Philosopher's Stone (1969):
The book of the black name, containing the history of that which came before
men. The great old ones were both one and many. They were not separate souls li
ke men, yet they were separate wills. Some say they came from the stars; some sa
y that they were the soul of the earth when it was formed from a cloud. For all
life comes from the beyond, where there is no consciousness. Life needed a mirro
r, therefore it invaded the world of matter. There it became its own enemy, beca
use they [bodies? -- note in original] possess form. The great old ones wanted t
o avoid form; therefore they rejected the heavy material of the body. But then t
hey lost the power to act. Therefore they needed servants.
Quoted by a thirteenth-century monk called Martin the Gardener, in a commentary
on the Necronomicon itself.
The phrase "The book of the black name" is apparently a very poor attempt at a t
ranslation of the title Necronomicon, confusing the Greek nekros, dead, with the
Latin niger, black.
"Antonius Quine"
From the Quine translation of the Necronomicon ("1972"):

YOG-SOTHOTH knows the gate. YOG-SOTHOTH is the gate. YOG-SOTHOTH is the keep
er and guardian of the gate. YOG-SOTHOTH knows where the Old Ones broke through
of old and where they shall come again. Past, present, future ... all are one in
YOG-SOTHOTH.
That is not dead which has the capacity to eternally lie,
And when the strange (things/aeons) arrive death itself may cease to be.
Think not the Great Old Ones are all of darkness. The fire of Azathoth is al
l brightness and heat as it devours. The globes of Yog-Sothoth shimmer with the
stellar blaze.
Note: the purported translation by Antonius Quine apparently does not exist. The
quotations above were derived from various newsposts on UseNet; if anyone has i
nformation as to their true source, please contact me: [email protected]
.
Brian Lumley
From The Burrowers Beneath (1974):
Ye Power in ye Five-Pointed Star
Armor against Witches & Daemons, Against ye Deep Ones, ye Dools, ye Voormais
, ye Tacho-Tacho, ye Mi-Go, ye Shoggaoths, ye Ghasts, ye Valusians, & all such P
eoples & Beings that serve ye Great Olde Ones & ye Spawn of Them, lies within ye
Five-Pointed Star carven of gray Stone from ancient Mnar; which is less strong
against ye Great Olde Ones Themselves. Ye Possessor of ye Stone shall find himse
lf able to command all Beings which creep, swim, crawl, walk, or fly even to ye
Source from which there is no returning. In Yhe as in Great R'lyeh, in Y'ha-nthl
ei as in Yoth, in Yuggoth as in Zothique, in N'kai as in Naa-Hk & K'n-yan, in Ca
rcosa as in G'harne, in ye twin Cities of Ib and Lh-yib, in Kadath in ye Cold Wa
ste as at ye Lake of Hali, it shall have Power; yet even as Stars wane & grow co
ld, even as Suns die & ye Spaces between Stars grow more wide, so wanes ye Power
of all things -- of ye Five-Pointed Star-Stone as of ye Spells put upon ye Grea
t Olde Ones by ye benign Elder Gods, & that Time shall come as once was a Time,
when it shall be known:
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange Aeons even Death may die.
From Joachim Feery's Notes on the Necronomicon.
(The Vach-Viraj Incantation)
Ya na kadishtu nilgh'ri stell'bsna Nyogtha,
K'yarnak phlegethor l'ebumna syha'h n'ghft,
Ya hai kadishtu ep r'luh-eeh Nyogtha eeh,
S'uhn-ngh athg li'hee orr'e syha'h.
From Joachim Feery's Notes on the Necronomicon.
[....] Sunken G'lohee, in the Isles of Mist [....]
Translation of unknown provenance.
(Reference is to G'll-ho.)
Many & multiform are ye dim horrors of Earth, infesting her ways from ye ver
y prime. They sleep beneath ye unturned stone; they rise with ye tree from its r

oot; they move beneath ye sea, & in subterranean places they dwell in ye inmost
adyta. Some there are long known to man, & others as yet unknown, abiding ye ter
rible latter days of their revealing. Those which are ye most dreadful & ye loat
hliest of all are haply still to be declared.
From Joachim Feery's Notes on the Necronomicon.
From The Transition of Titus Crow (1975):
'Tis a veritable & attestable Fact, that between certain related Persons the
re exists a Bond more powerful than the strongest Ties of Flesh and Family, wher
eby one such Person may be aware of all the Trials & Pleasures of the other, yea
, even to experiencing the Pains or Passions of one far distant; & further, ther
e are those whose skills in such Matters are aided by forbidden Knowledge of Int
ercourse through dark Magic with Spirits & Beings of outside Spheres. Of the lat
ter: I have sought them out, both Men & Women, & upon Examination have in all Ca
ses discovered them to be Users of Divination, Observors of Times, Enchanters, W
itches, Charmers, or Necromancers. All claimed to work their Wonders through Int
ercourse with dead & departed Spirits, but I fear that often such Spirits were e
vil Angels, the Messengers of the Dark One & yet more ancient Evils. Indeed, amo
ng them were some whose Powers were prodigious, who might at will inhabit the Bo
dy of another even at a great Distance & against the Will & often unbeknown to t
he Sufferer of such Outrage.
Moreover, I have dreamed it that of the aforementioned most ancient of Evils
, there is One which slumbers in Deeps unsounded so nearly Immortal that Life &
Death are one to Him. Being ultimately corrupt, He fears Death's Corruption not,
but when true Death draws nigh will prepare Himself until, fleeing His ancient
Flesh, His Spirit will plumb Times-to-come & there cleave unto Flesh of His Fles
h, & all the Sins of this Great Father shall be visited upon His Child's Child.
I have dreamed it, & my Dreams have been His Dreams who is the greatest Dreamer
of all....
Translation of unknown provenance; from the rarest Al Azif of all.
From "Aunt Hester" (1977):
'Tis a veritable & attestable Fact, that between certain related Persons the
re exists a Bond more powerful than the strongest Ties of Flesh and Family, wher
eby one such Person may be aware of all the Trials & Pleasures of the other, yea
, even to experiencing the Pains or Passions of one far distant; & further, ther
e are those whose skills in such Matters are aided by forbidden Knowledge of Int
ercourse through dark Magic with Spirits & Beings of outside Spheres. Of the lat
ter: I have sought them out, both Men & Women, & upon Examination have in all Ca
ses discovered them to be Users of Divination, Observors of Times, Enchanters, W
itches, Charmers, or Necromancers. All claimed to work their Wonders through Int
ercourse with dead & departed Spirits, but I fear that often such Spirits were e
vil Angels, the Messengers of the Dark One & yet more ancient Evils. Indeed, amo
ng them were some whose Powers were prodigious, who might at will inhabit the Bo
dy of another even at a great Distance & against the Will & often unbeknown to t
he Sufferer of such Outrage. Yea, & I discovered how one might, be he an Adept &
his familiar Spirits powerful enough, control the Wanderings or Migration of hi
s Essence into all manner of Beings & Persons -- even from beyond the Grave of S
od or the Door of the Stone Sepulcher.
From Joachim Feery's Notes on the Necronomicon.
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
From the Illuminatus! trilogy (1975):

Onlie those who have eaten a certain alkaloid herb, whose name it were wise
not to disclose to the unilluminated, maye in the fleshe see a Shoggothe.
English translation of John Dee, copy residing in Miskatonic University Library.
From the Illuminatus! trilogy (1975):
They ruled once where man rules now, summer. Where man rules now, after summ
er is winter. They shall rule again, and after winter.
Olaus Wormius' Latin translation, 1472 Lyons edition with its numerous misprints
and errors. Translation into English of unknown provenance.
From the Illuminatus! trilogy (1975):
Past, present, future: all are one in Yog-Sothoth.
Translation of unknown provenance.
From the Illuminatus! trilogy (1975):
Their hand is at your throat but you see them not. They walk serene and unsu
spected, not in the spaces we know, but between them.
Translation of unknown provenance.
From the Illuminatus! trilogy (1975):
Kadath in the cold waste hath known him [i.e., Yog-Sothoth].
Translation of unknown provenance. "Known" in the Biblical sense....
Brian McNaughton
From Satan's Mistress (1978):
Call not upon Yog-Sothoth until ye be certaine that ye Bones be compleat and
culled of forraine contamination. For it hath been known in antient Tymes that
ye Bones of a Man mingled with ye Bones of a Beare or Lyon, or even with ye Offa
ile of a lowly Coney or Porpentine, hath produced for a hapless Necromancer not
a Ressurection of that which was, but a Creation of Abomination that should not
be.
He who would be a Master of the Runes and possessor of Life eternaille must
consecrate to Crom Cruach on Lammas Night ye Flesh of an infant newborn and eat
thereof. Nor is the consecration to be made by those faint of heart or doubting
in their souls, for Crom Cruach knows all, Crom Cruach sees all, Crom Cruach is
all. I! Crom Cruach!
From the English translation of Dr. John Dee, London edition of 1589.
From Satan's Seductress (1980):
Whenas Aldebaran riseth to the Sixth House, and agreeth in all ways with ye
Conjunctions of Phutatorius as shall hereinafter be inscribed, then that is no D
oor which openeth on its Rising, but a Gate to ye Outside, through which All may
pass but None may return save a Master of ye Runes, or ye Host of Ekron.
From the English translation of Dr. John Dee, London edition of 1589.
Thomas Ligotti

From "The Sect of the Idiot" (1988):

The primal chaos, Lord of all ... the blind idiot god -- Azathoth.
Translation of unknown provenance.
Fred Chappell
From "The Adder" (1989):
Wisely did ibn Mushacab say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lai
n, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For the spirit of th
e devil-indentured hastes not from his charnel clay, but feeds and instructs the
very worm that gnaws. Then an awful life from corruption springs and feeds agai
n the appointed scavengers upon the earth. Great holes are dug hidden where are
the open pores of the earth, and things have learned to walk that ought to crawl
.
[....] they dwell in the inmost adyta [....]
[....] Yog-Sothoth knows the gate [....]
[....] in the Gulf the worlds themselves are made of sounds [....]
[....] the dim horrors of Earth [....]
[....] i i i, Shub-Niggurath! [....]
The affair that shambleth about in the night, the evil that defieth the Elde
r Sign, the Herd that stand watch at the secret portal each tomb is known to hav
e and that thrive on that which groweth out of the tenants thereof: All these Bl
acknesses are lesser than He Who guardeth the Gateway [....]
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
From a handwritten copy of Al Azif in the original Arabic, translating itself in
to English, little by little.
David A. MacIntee
From White Darkness (1993):
Even as the Great Ones may return from their resting slumber, so the adept m
ay, by use of the Ashes of Noah, and essential Saltes, call his fellow man back
from the great beyond.
Translated by Dr. Who as he reads from an unknown edition in the eocene language
(a reference to a pre-human reptilian race slumbering in cites beneath the eart
h and sea). The edition is described as "unexpurgated" and contains "all of Roer
ich's original illustrations".
Allen Mackey
From "The Plague Jar" (1994):
[....] concerning Irem, the City of Pillars, I spake of the Elder Days and o
f the four nations that had ruled this land of old, Thamood of the north, and Ad
of the south, and Tasm, and Jadis; and I spake of many-columned Irem and of Sha
ddad the Accursed who had raised up its walls around an Elder central obelisk an
d who did build therein an Thousand pillars to Those better left unnamed.
Translation of unknown provenance.

William Browning Spencer

From Rsum with Monsters (1995):
Na'ghimgor thdid lym.
Myn th'x barsoom lu'gndar.
In'path gix mth'nabor.
In'path nox vel'dekk.
Yig sudeth M'cylorum.
M'xxlit kraddath Soggoth im'betnk.
Nog s'dath blexmed!
Version unknown. Banishing spell against the Old Ones; translation approximately
as follows:
You will leave this spot, which spot denies the logic of your coming and goi
ng, and you will take, in the Name of the Nameless One, all your minions and the
ir devices with you. And even the uttering of your name will be lost to this wor
ld until Time has eaten its Own Head.
Robert M. Price
From "The Soul of the Devil-Bought" (1996):
The nethermost caverns are not
for the fathoming of living eyes;
it is written in the Scroll of Thoth
how terrible is the price of a single glimpse,
for that the marvels thereof
are strange and awful.
Nor may those who pass ever return,
for in that transcendent Vastness
lurk Shapes of darkness
that seize and bind.
Cursed the ground where dead thoughts live
new and oddly bodied,
and the wakeful mind
that is held by no head.
Wisely did Ibn Mushachab bless the tomb
where no wizard hath lain.
Happy the town by night
whose wizards are all ashes!
But woe to that place
whose folk omit to burn the poisoner
and the enchanter at the stake.
I tell you, it will go easier for Sodom
and Gomorrah than for that town.
For it is rumored of old
that the soul of the devil-bought
hastes not from his charnel clay,
but fats and instructs the gnawing worm;
till out of corruption horrid life springs,
and the dull scavengers of earth
wax crafty to vex it
and swell monstrous to plague it.
Great holes are digged in secret,
where earth's pores once sufficed
and things have learnt to walk
that once did crawl:
The Affair that shambleth about in the night,

the Evil that defieth the Elder Sign,

the Herd that do stand watch
at the secret portal of every tomb,
and feast unwholesomely therein.
All these Blacknesses
slither but seldom from the moist
and fetid burrows of their loathsome lair.
Less shall ye fear them than
Him That Guardeth the Gateway;
that guideth the dead beyond all worlds
into the Abyss of Unnamable Devourers.
For he is that Ubb,
the worm that dieth not.
These are the words of al-Hazrat,
Imam of al-Illah.
The wise shall head them.
Price presents a novel source for this alleged quotation. Dr. Anton Zarnak expla
ins:
To put it perhaps over-simply for the moment, I have concluded that the Al-A
zif and the Necronomicon are not in fact one and the same. The former was the wo
rk of an eighth-century Yemenite demonologist, Abd al-Hazrat. The more notorious
Necronomicon, while it incorporates various bits and pieces of lore filched fro
m the older Azif, is substantially a new work, a series of mediumistic revelatio
ns made to Dr. John Dee while he gazed into his scrying crystal.
Not to criticize too heavily, but Dr. Dee did not himself perform the scrying wi
th his shew-stone, as he got too poor results. Instead, he acted as scribe while
others, such as the infamous Edward Kelley or Dee's son Arthur, did the actual
scrying.
Once he had transcribed the visionary material, he stood aghast at the chara
cter of it. Suspecting demonic inspiration for the larger part of it, he tried t
o disguise its true origin by fathering the work on the obscure Arab al-Hazrat.
It was a day when Christians commonly believed their Saracen rivals to worship i
dols and monsters such as Termagant and Iblis, so the attribution seemed natural
. Dr. Dee dared not simply destroy the blasphemous text outright for fear of wha
t vengeance might be wrought upon him by whatever alien influences had imparted
the revelations to him. Afterward he petitioned his God for the gift of the tong
ue of angels, that spoken by the antediluvian revealer Enoch, that henceforth he
might receive the oracles of God without admixture.
What I have just read you comes from the original work of al-Hazrat. I do no
t care to say how it came into my hands.
Have any further information on the quotations here, or know of others that shou
ld be included?
Please inform me: [email protected].
Copyright 1997-2006 Dan Clore.
ALLEGED CONTENTS OF THE NECRONOMICON
(AL AZIF) OF THE MAD ARAB
ABDUL ALHAZRED
Compiled by Dan Clore from sundry sources
Fake title page of the Dee edition
from the Hay-Wilson-Turner-Langford Necronomicon

H.P. Lovecraft
From "The Hound" (1922):
Description of the ghastly soul-symbol of the corpse-eating cult of inaccess
ible Leng, in Central Asia. This is an amulet depicting the oddly conventionalis
ed figure of a crouching winged hound, or sphinx with a semi-canine face. Its si
nister lineaments, according to the old Arab daemonologist, were drawn from some
obscure supernatural manifestation of the souls of those who vexed and gnawed a
t the dead.
From "The Descendant" (?):
Strange diagrams.
From "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926):
No real hint of the Cthulhu Cult, but double meanings which the initiated mi
ght read as they choose.
From The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927):
Instructions on raising the dead from their chemical salts.
From "The Last Test" (1927):
Things that weren't known in Atlantis.
From "The Dunwich Horror" (1928):
A kind of formula or incantation containing the frightful name Yog-Sothoth.
From "Medusa's Coil" (1930):
Hints of the old, hideous shadow that philosophers never dared mention, the
thing symbolised in the Easter Island colossi -- the secret that has come down f
rom the days of Cthulhu and the Elder Ones -- the secret that was nearly wiped o
ut when Atlantis sank, but that was kept half alive in hidden traditions and all
egorical myths and furtive, midnight cult-practices.
From "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1930):
Hints of the fearful myths antedating the coming of man to the earth -- the
Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu cycles.
Certain ideographs linked with the most blood-curdling and blasphemous whisp
ers of things that had had a kind of mad half-existence before the earth and the
other inner worlds of the solar system were made.
Vague guesses about worlds of elder, outer entity.
Mention of the amorphous, toad-like god-creature Tsathoggua.
References to the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space, mercifully cl
oaked under the name of Azathoth.
From a letter to Clark Ashton Smith (1930):
Mention of Clark Ashton Smith's ghoul [?], and his adventures. But some timi
d reader has torn out the pages where the Episode of the Vault comes to a climax

-- the deletion being curiously uniform in the copies at Harvard and at Miskato
nic University. When Lovecraft wrote to the University of Paris for information
about the missing text, a polite sub-librarian, M. Lon de Verchres, wrote to him t
hat he would make him a photostatic copy as soon as he could comply with the for
malities attendant upon access to the dreaded volume. Unfortunately, it was not
long afterward that Lovecraft learned of M. de Verchres' sudden insanity and inca
rceration, and of his attempt to burn the hideous book which he had just secured
and consulted. Thereafter Lovecraft's requests met with scant notice.
From a letter to Clark Ashton Smith (1930):
Mention of Yog-Soth-oth [sic] made with manifest reluctance.
From At The Mountains of Madness (1931):
Reluctant descriptions of the evilly fabled plateau of Leng.
Primal myths of Elder Things, supposed to have created all earth-life as jes
t or mistake.
Whispers about 'shoggoths' -- not even hinting that any exist on earth excep
t in the dreams of those who have chewed a certain alkaloidal herb, nervously tr
ying to swear that none have bred on this planet.
From a letter to Clark Ashton Smith (1931):
A formula that is not in Olaus' Latin Text.
From "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1932):
Terrible hints relating to abstract formulae on the properties of space and
the linkage of dimensions known and unknown.
The name Azathoth, standing for a primal evil too horrible for description.
Description of Nyarlathotep.
Guarded quotation of some croaking ritual in a strange language.
From "The Horror in the Museum" (1932):
Descriptions of black, formless Tsathoggua, many-tentacled Cthulhu, probosci
dian Chaugnar Faugn, and other rumoured blasphemies.
A very peculiar symbol.
From a letter to E. Hoffman Price (1932):
Nothing about Zemargad, unless perchance it be that passage (Nec. xii, 58 -p. 984; edition unspecified) in Naacal hieroglyphics, whose fullest purport Lov
ecraft was never able to unravel.
Material on the Vaults of Zin, so well known to all students of Alhazred.
From "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (1932-33):
An entire chapter that takes on significance once the designs graven on the
Silver Key have been deciphered.
Instructions on certain obeisances made when one meets the Guide and Guardia

n of the Gate.
From "Out of the Aeons" (1933):
Certain primal symbols.
From "The Thing on the Doorstep" (1933):
A formula enabling the caster to exchange bodies with another person.
From a letter to August Derleth (1933):
Both the primal name Glyu-uho and new Arabic word Ibt al Jauzah, referring t
o Betelgeuse.
From a letter to Duane Rimel (1934):
Records of non-human sounds that were known to certain human scholars in eld
er days. Non-human names given a twist in the direction of Alhazred's Arabic, in
cluding Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, etc.
From a letter to Duane Rimel (1934):
An attempt to represent the non-human names R'lyeh and Cthulhu in human alph
abets.
From a letter to Richard F. Searight (1934):
Tantalizing and subtly disquieting references to man's earliest struggles wi
th the survivors of the pre-human world.
From a letter to Richard F. Searight (1934):
Many hinted horrors very ominously anticipated by the Eltdown Shards.
From "The Shadow out of Time" (1934-35):
Suggestions of the presence of a cult among human beings founded on hints of
the forbidden past, derived from the memories of those who have exhanged minds
with members of the Great Race -- a cult that sometimes gave aid to minds voyagi
ng down the aeons from the days of the Great Race.
From "The Haunter of the Dark" (1935):
Equivocal secrets and immemorial formulae which have trickled down the strea
m of time from the days of man's youth, and the dim, fabulous days before man wa
s.
From a letter to Henry Kuttner (1936):
Ridicule of the text of the Book of Dzyan.
Clark Ashton Smith
From "The Return of the Sorcerer" (1931):
A singular incantatory formula for the exorcism of the dead, with a ritual t
hat involves the use of rare Arabian spices and the proper intoning of at least
a hundred names of ghouls and demons. (Only present in Arabic manuscript.)

Robert Bloch
From "The Faceless God" (1936):
Cryptic mention of the name Nyarlathotep, which Alhazred had heard whispered
in tales of shadowed Irem.
August Derleth
From "The House on Curwen Street" (1943):
Hints that seem to indicate that the awaited time for the resurgence of Cthu
lhu is drawing near.
From "The Dweller in Darkness" (1944):
A terrible footnote which gives no clue as to the identity of Cthugha.
From "The Keeper of the Key" (1951):
The closest that anyone has ever come to revealing the secrets of Cthulhu an
d the cults of Cthulhu, of Yog-Sothoth, and indeed, of all the Ancient Ones.
Hints of things so terrible that the mind of man could scarcely conceive of
them, and, conceiving, would instantly elect to reject them rather than adopt in
to the realm of the possible any potential event of such a nature as to refute m
any of the most fundamental principles by which the races of mankind exist, and
relegate man to a position of even greater insignificance than his present motelike place in the cosmos.
Oddly disturbing paragraphs concerning the return of the Ancient Ones, the d
evotion of the minions who serve them, some in the guise of men, others in guise
s far stranger.
Names reaching out from the pages to transfix with primal fear -- Ubbo-Sathl
a, Azathoth, the blind idiot god, 'Umr At-Tawil, Tsathoggua, Cthugha, and yet ot
hers, all suggestive of a weird and horrific godhead, of a terror-fraught panopl
y of great, gigantic creatures, in no wise similar to man, as ancient as and qui
te possibly more ancient than earth itself, or even the solar system so familiar
to the astronomers of our times.
Specific statement that the region of the Nameless City is shunned by the na
tives.
An account of the 'spectral wind'.
"H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth"
(i.e., August Derleth)
From The Lurker at the Threshold (1945):
Description of Nyarlathotep as 'faceless'.
At least part of certain rites through which the Great Old Ones and their ex
traterrestrial minions might be 'called' to appear through 'openings'.
From "Witches' Hollow" (1962):
Description of ancient, alien races, invaders of earth, great mythical being
s called Ancient Ones and Elder Gods, with outlandish names like Cthulhu and Has

tur, Shub-Niggurath and Azathoth, Dagon and Ithaqua and Wendigo and Cthugha, all
involved in some kind of plan to dominate earth and served by some of its peopl
es -- the Tcho-Tcho, and the Deep Ones, and the like. The books is filled with c
abalistic lore, incantations, and what purports to be an account of a great inte
rplanetary battle between the Elder Gods and the Ancient Ones and of the surviva
l of cults and servitors in isolated and remote places on our planet as well as
on sister planets.
Ramsey Campbell
From "The Church in High Street" (1962):
An engraving on page 594 (edition unspecified) that depicts a strange creatu
re, so hysterically alien as to be indescribable; it is a glistening, pallid ova
l, with no facial features whatsoever, except for a vertical, slit-like mouth, s
urrounded by a horny ridge. There are no visible members, but there is that whic
h suggests that the creature can shape any organ at will.
From "The Room in the Castle" (1964):
Descriptions of the alien beings which, according to the author, lurk in dar
k and shunned places of this world -- bloated Cthulhu, indescribable Shub-Niggur
ath, vast batrachian Dagon.
From "The Horror from the Bridge" (1964):
A very incomplete and long outdated astrological table.
Pages that deal with the commission of beings in tampering with the elements
, including chants and a powerful formula that must be pieced together from vari
ous pages.
An illustration depicting a species of incarnate hideousness. The thing has
eight major arm-like appendages protruding from an elliptical body, six of which
are tipped with flipper-like protrusions, the other two being tentacular. Four
of the web-tipped legs are located at the lower end of the body, and used for wa
lking upright. The other two are near the head, and can be used for walking near
the ground. The head joins directly to the body; it is oval and eyeless. In pla
ce of eyes, there is an abominable sponge-like circular organ about the center o
f the head; over it grows something hideously like a spider's web. Below this is
a mouth-like slit which extends at least halfway round the head, bordered at ea
ch side by a tentacle-like appendage with a cupped tip, obviously used for carry
ing food to the mouth.
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
From the Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975):
Strange illustrations, always with five-sided borders just like the Pentagon
in Washington, but with people inside doing freaky sex acts with other creature
s who aren't humans at all (probably shoggoths).
Obscene metaphysics.
A lot of bragging and bombast about some Yog-Sothoth, probably a wog god, wh
o was both the Gate and the Guardian of the Gate. Absolute rubbish.
Material on Tsathoggua.
Acrostics which Dr. John Dee deciphered to derive his Enochian Keys.

Michael Crichton
From Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences
with the Northmen in A.D. 922 (1976):
No specific information is attributed to the Necronomicon, but it is include
d in the bibliography under "General Reference Works" along with various volumes
about the Vikings. The edition cited was edited by H.P. Lovecraft and published
in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1934.
William Browning Spencer
From Rsum with Monsters (1995):
Spells and portents, incantations, rituals that are effective against the Ol
d Ones. All kinds of rituals and spells, in fact: tax evasive rituals, lawyer co
njuring, inner child exorcisms, women (attracting, warding), travel (dimensional
, linear, time), demon entreating ... and demon repelling, binding, contracts.
James "the Amazing" Randi
From An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatura
l (1995):
Powerful formulas for calling up dangerous demigods and demons who are dedic
ated to destroying mankind.
Innumerable Adolescents Everywhere
Lots of hoky nonsense about Sumerian Mythology.
Copyright 1997-2006 Dan Clore.