Necronomicon
by H.P. Lovecraft · first published 2008
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La obra del escritor norteamericano H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) es vasta y variada. Sus relatos cortos representan la mayoría de su obra escrita y cubren todos los temas oscuros imaginables, con su recargado y característico estilo. Las historias contenidas en este volumen tratan de muchos temas diferentes, sin perder el sabor particular de Lovecraft por el horror cósmico y el peligro inminente. Hasta nuestros días se ha mantenido como un escritor de culto, recordado por su imaginación extremadamente prolífica, sus visiones oscuras del universo y por ayudar a la literatura de terror a entrar e
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Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft Science fiction and thrilling horror. Unique style. I recommend At The Mountains Of Madness. This man knows how to keep up suspense.
on “Ask HN: What books are you currently reading?” ↗I chose to celebrate Halloween by binging on an HP Lovecraft audiobook, the Necronomicon. Of the short stories contained within, the second one, Reanimator, is my recommendation for anyone in search of spooky entertainment on this topic. I have to warn however that it's set in the 1920s,…
on “Is Death Reversible?” ↗Quincunx An Instance of the Fingerpost A Fire Upon the Deep Culture novels Sea of Rust Necronomicon Thieves Emporium The Book Thief Matthew Shardlake novels Blindsight
on “Ask HN: What Stories Would Make for a Good TV Adaptation?” ↗If memory serves, an actual copy of Dictionnaire Infernal is ridiculously difficult, and expensive, to track down. You think that's hard, try finding an early edition of the Necronomicon. The cheap paperbacks are a poor substitution, and the Kindle version is rife with errors.
on “The 1863 edition of the “Dictionnaire Infernal” is the stuff of nightmares” ↗Necronomicon quote? Nice. This has me thinking about what I can do to make my security answers to security questions untethered from PII. A book quote is a really good idea.
on “Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen” ↗…the reference is likely to cause some innocently curious bystander to look up the material without having seen any proper warning labels. Basically, the same obvious precautions you'd use if Lovecraft's Necronomicon was online and could be found using simple Google keywords - you wouldn't post anything which would cause anyone to enter those Google keywords, unless they'd been warned about the potential consequences.…
on “Fallacies” ↗Well, I don't know what all is in the paperback Necronomicon, because I'm a science fiction fan, not a Cthulhu Mythos camp follower. But if it's at all in accord with the depiction of cultists in Mythos fiction, I can see an argument that someone who genuinely…
on “Medicating a Prophet” ↗Fictional books are always fun for me, and one of the things I love about Cthulhu mythos stories- the Necronomicon is well-known, but also Unaussprechlichen Kulten and De Vermis Mysteriis. In a similar, but earlier vein is The King in Yellow from Robert W. Chambers.
on “Musaeum Clausum” ↗In addition to what the other answers have said, the Necronomicon is the book of dark magic in the Lovecraft mythos, from which it has been copied into some other mythoi.
on “Original source of `(seed * 9301 and 49297) % 233280` random algorithm? (2014)” ↗This comment is itself a fine example of the form, a twist on the King in Yellow, or Necronomicon, a story about a text which contains knowledge so alien or antithetical to humanity that just reading it is enough to fracture the mind of the reader and leave them unfit for society with their fellow…
on “Weird Nonfiction” ↗…ones in Chambers' book. Chambers' genius was in the creation of a work (the eponymous King In Yellow play) that induced insanity. This influenced a lot of later authors such as HPL with his fictitious Necronomicon.
on “The King in Yellow” ↗https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon I meant this Sci Fi book
on “Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?” ↗