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Original title Al Azif -- azif being the word used by Arabs
to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling
of daemons. Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sanaa, in Yemen, who
is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700
A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and
spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia -- the Roba el
Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients -- and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of
the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and
monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told
by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in
Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Al Azif) was written, and of his final death
or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. He is
said by Ebn Khallikan (12th cent. biographer) to have been seized by an
invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number
of fright-frozen witnesses. Of his madness many things are told. He claimed to
have seen fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins
of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race
older than mankind. [The Rebel Press edition adds this editor's note: "A full
description of the nameless city, and the annals and secrets of its one time
inhabitants will be found in the story THE NAMELESS CITY, published in the first
issue of Fanciful Tales, and written by the author of this outline."] He was
only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called
Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu.
In A.D. 950 the
Azif, which had gained a considerable tho' surreptitious circulation amongst the
philosophers of the age, was secretly translated into Greek by Theodorus
Philetas of Constantinople under the title Necronomicon. For a century it
impelled certain experimenters to terrible attempts, when it was suppressed and
burnt by the patriarch Michael. After this it is only heard of furtively, but
(1228) Olaus Wormius made a Latin translation later in the Middle Ages, and the
Latin text was printed twice -- once in the fifteenth century in black-letter
(evidently in Germany) and once in the seventeenth (prob. Spanish) -- both
editions being without identifying marks, and located as to time and place by
internal typographical evidence only. The work both Latin and Greek was banned
by Pope Gregory IX in 1232, shortly after its Latin translation, which called
attention to it. The Arabic original was lost as early as Wormius' time, as
indicated by his prefatory note. Of the Latin texts now existing one (15th
cent.) is known to be in the British Museum under lock and key, while another
(17th cent.) is in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris. A seventeenth-century
edition is in the Widener Library at Harvard, and in the library of Miskatonic
University at Arkham. Also in the library of the University of Buenos Ayres.
Numerous other copies probably exist in secret, and a fifteenth-century one is
persistently rumoured to form part of the collection of a celebrated American
millionaire. A still vaguer rumour credits the preservation of a
sixteenth-century Greek text in the Salem family of Pickman; but if it was so
preserved, it vanished with the artist R.U. Pickman, who disappeared early in
1926. The book is rigidly suppressed by the authorities of most countries, and
by all branches of organised ecclesiasticism. Reading leads to terrible
consequences. It was from rumours of this book (of which relatively few of the
general public know) that R.W. Chambers is said to have derived the idea of his
early novel The King in Yellow.
Chronology
Al Azif written circa 730 A.D. at
Damascus by Abdul Alhazred Tr. to Greek 950 A.D. as Necronomicon by
Theodorus Philetas Burnt by Patriarch Michael 1050 (i.e., Greek text).
Arabic text now lost. Olaus translates Gr. to Latin 1228 1232 Latin ed.
(and Gr.) suppr. by Pope Gregory IX 14... Black-letter printed edition
(Germany) 15... Gr. text printed in Italy 16... Spanish reprint of Latin
text
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