The Necronomicon
A book of forbidden lore written by the mad poet Abdul Alhazred, and the most dangerous thing in any library that holds it.
The Necronomicon was written around the year 730 in Damascus by Abdul Alhazred, a poet of Sanaa in Yemen whom later writers called mad. Its original title was Al Azif. It describes the Old Ones who ruled the earth before humanity, the rites that call them, and the places where the walls of the world are thin.
The Arabic original is lost. A Greek translation was made in the tenth century and a Latin one in the thirteenth. Church authorities burned copies wherever they found them, so only a handful survive, kept under lock in a few libraries. Miskatonic University holds one.
Reading it is not enough to use it. But reading it is enough to be changed by it, and those who study it closely rarely return to ordinary lives.
Its most quoted couplet: That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.
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