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Necronomicon
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thumb|Statue of H. P. Lovecraft, the author who created the Necronomicon as a fictional grimoire and featured it in many of his stories
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13 sectionsContents
- Origin and etymology
- Fictional history
- Appearance and contents
- Locations
- Hoaxes
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Statue of H. P. Lovecraft, the author who created the Necronomicon as a fictional grimoire and featured it in many of his stories
The Necronomicon, also referred to as the Book of the Dead, or under a purported original Arabic title of , is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1924 short story "The Hound", written in 1922, though its purported author, the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, had been quoted a year earlier in Lovecraft's "The Nameless City". Among other things, the work contains an account of the Old Ones, their history, and the means for summoning them.