Exploring The Dark Horrifying Corners of The Necronomicon

[Devan Sagliani]

Exploring The Dark Horrifying Corners of The Necronomicon

In the next part of the series on H.P. Lovecraft, we look at the Necronomicon.

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[Yeshe]

Again, thanks for the interesting read, Devan. Thumbs up.

 

[the_maestro_sartori]

This whole series has been awesome to read, cheers!

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I remember in High School, I'd already been a huge Lovecraft fan and this guy I knew who was at best a complete jackass, had just heard about the Necronomicon somehow so I convinced him (apparently I rolled damn good on Charisma that day) that it was a real book and I had a copy but it was powerful and evil, and I wouldn't just give it away. The dude begged me for it for weeks, while I prepared a leatherbound blank book with gibberish, drawings and calligraphy (I was really bored and went way out of my way to prank this dude, I did not like him). Eventually I finished it and he paid me about $200 and I gave it to him under cover of darkness, in a parking lot at midnight.
Dude made an ass of himself at school the next day claiming he was invincible after reading from the book for 7 straight hours or some shit and promptly got his ass handed to him by one of the guys from the wrestling team after taking a swing at him.
Lesson, don't piss me off enough to where I convince you that you can become IRL invincible I guess?

 

[Jandau]

I remember in High School, I'd already been a huge Lovecraft fan and this guy I knew who was at best a complete jackass, had just heard about the Necronomicon somehow so I convinced him (apparently I rolled damn good on Charisma that day) that it was a real book and I had a copy but it was powerful and evil, and I wouldn't just give it away. The dude begged me for it for weeks, while I prepared a leatherbound blank book with gibberish, drawings and calligraphy (I was really bored and went way out of my way to prank this dude, I did not like him). Eventually I finished it and he paid me about $200 and I gave it to him under cover of darkness, in a parking lot at midnight.
Dude made an ass of himself at school the next day claiming he was invincible after reading from the book for 7 straight hours or some shit and promptly got his ass handed to him by one of the guys from the wrestling team after taking a swing at him.
Lesson, don't piss me off enough to where I convince you that you can become IRL invincible I guess?

Hah, I was just about to post my own highschool story about it - in my case, I got the book during the first year of high school. I was the moody, black-clad kid in this tale, and used the book for about a week to scare the everloving shit out of some of the more gullible classmates, threatening them with curses, performing incantations at them in public, scribbling eldricht symbols on their tables while they weren't looking, etc. I didn't believe in any of it and it was a good laugh for me and my friends. At one point one person actually begged me to reverse a spell I "cast" on him. After a week or two, I got tired of the act and told everyone that the book was a fake and the whole thing was a joke. Looking back on it, everyone took it in good humor and nobody tried any payback, praise Cthulhu...