Message-ID: <38B581F8.4041266D@connect.ab.ca> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:09:44 -0700 From: Abaddon Reply-To: abaddon@connect.ab.ca Organization: World Crime League X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu Subject: Re: Necronomicon Hoax (was Re: still: More to read?) References: <38B173F8.BB9CE73C@ira.uka.de> <01bf7eb9$027f2600$3ef87586@MyName.carleton.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin038.connect.ab.ca X-Trace: 24 Feb 2000 12:17:13 -0700, dialin038.connect.ab.ca Lines: 34 Path: typhoon.sonic.net!pants.skycache.com!news.bigsky.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!torn!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!hekyl.ab.tac.net!skylite.connect.ab.ca!dialin038.connect.ab.ca Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.horror.cthulhu:53343 deanna lindsay wrote: > The best Necronomicon hoax outthere ( in my opinion ) is "The Necronomicon > - The Book Of Dead Names, edited by George Hay, with an introduction by > Colin Wilson." It's published by Skoob esoterica, ISBN 1871438160, first > published in Great Britain in 1978. Colin Wilson late wrote an essay on the > hoax ( which appeared in Crypt Of Cthulhu #?, and Black Forbidden Things ). > It's a great book! Not at all like the cheap Necronomicon paperback > spellbook everyone is familiar with. If you didn't know it was a hoax, it > could keep you guessing. Worth picking up. > > thehappycyclops@hotmail.com I agree! Hay's and Wilson's use of a cyphered Dee manuscript was excellent for verisimilitude considering Dee's checkered history (magician, astologer, mathmetician, spy). While the "translation" with some of its diagrams pushes believability a little, Wilson's essays (there is a sequel called _The R'hley Text_ also available from Skoob) bring up some interesting mysteries such as the portalans and secret german occult lodges. And he links these to Lovecraft. Wonderful pieces of literary misdirection. Abaddon. -- "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. . ." --H.P. Lovecraft