There have long been supposed mysterious, magical texts that have drawn in stories of the bizarre. In 1922, the famous horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft introduced the world to one of his most popular literary creations, a magical book called The Necronomicon. The book first appeared in the Lovecraft's short story The Hound, and was described as an ancient text compiled by a man named Abdul Alhazred, also called the “Mad Arab” in the 8th century after exploring ancient Babylonian and Egyptian ruins. The Necronomicon is a fictional book of magic spells, rituals, curses, and incantations for summoning a variety of monsters and powerful archaic deities, and it became a recurring book and part of Lovecraft's wider “Cthulhu Mythos,” which encompasses a vast shared universe of interconnected stories set against a tapestry of ancient inscrutable alien entities, mad cults, cosmic horror, and all manner of horrific, unfathomable monsters lurking in the shadows beyond what we know. The Necronomicon is perhaps one of the most famous fictitious books in horror history, and considering its popularity and HP Lovecraft’s general air of mystery, it is perhaps no surprise that at some point there would be claiming that it was not fictional at all.

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Source: mysteriousuniverse.org/2023/02/The-Strange-Story-o…