Date: 2010-02-05
From The Lovecraft Necronomicon Primer, by T. Allan Bilstad The spawn of Cthulhu—or as I like to call them, the Little C—are the brethren to Cthulhu, the difference being that their stature and powers are smaller when compared with the Big C. From Lovecraft’s writing it is not clear if they are the actual offspring of Cthulhu, but the word spawn communicates to the...
Date: 2009-07-22
From The Lovecraft Necronomicon Primer, by T. Allan Bilstad According to Lovecraft, at the center of the universe there is a god. This deity, seemingly at the most important place in all of existence, would at first appear to be its raison d’être: the universe’s materialization from thought into reality.Now imagine a corpulent mass of swirling, chaotic forms and shapes, eerily...
Date: 2008-07-16
A ritual is simply a repeated pattern of doing something. Magical rituals repeat formats that have been shown to be effective in the past. Seasonal rituals are those that repeat stories and practices of the past. One of the most common rituals for this time of the year is when we sit down, make a list, and ask ourselves, “What am I going to give my friends and relatives?”There are expensive...
Date: 2006-09-18
Delving into history, legend, and myth, Donald Tyson explores the world of Alhazred, his newest book on this mysterious wandering author of H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon.
Abdul Alhazred is attributed as the mysterious author of the Necronomicon. Like the dark book he is reputed to have written, he was the creation of the fertile mind of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who invented both Alhazred and the ...
