Title: Essay Was The Best Part
Review: It looks like HPL has become a wholesale hoaxer of modern-day Satanists everywhere! If you're in doubt, please read "Lovecraft At Last" by Willis Conover. In that book, Lovecraft admits to one of his correspondents that the Necronomicon was a made-up book. Still, Lovecraft's fiction was so powerful that they were able to conjure a non-existent book into existence! The seals and sigils and spells in the book are rather comical to anyone who knows much of the history of magic in the west, but the essay at the beginning of the book is rather interesting, though unconvincing. the author tries to relate ancient Sumer with Aleister Crowley with H.P. Lovecraft. I think it is this introductory essay which has given the book so much of it's appeal. Anyway, of you are a fan of Lovecraft's prose, as I am, then this might be an amusing way to kill a few hours.
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