Incipit
History of the Necronomicon Original title Al Azif—azif being the word used by the 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 Sanaá, 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 inhabit …
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Personnages — Abdul Alhazred (3), Richard Upton Pickman (2)
Divinités — Cthulhu (1), Yog-Sothoth (1)
Lieux — Salem (2), Arkham (1), Irem (1), Université Miskatonic (1)
Objets — Le Necronomicon (7)