Incipit
I have had no chance to produce new material this autumn, but have been classifying notes & synopses in preparation for some monstrous tales later on. In particular I have drawn up some data on the celebrated & unmentionable Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred! It seems that this shocking blasphemy was produced by a native of Sanaá, in Yemen, who flourished about 700 A.D. & made many mysterious pilgrimages to Babylon’s ruins, Memphis’s catacombs, & the devil-haunted & untrodden wastes of the great southern deserts of Arabia — the Roba el Khaliyeh, where he claimed to have found record …
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Personnages — Abdul Alhazred (2)
Divinités — Cthulhu (1), Yog-Sothoth (1)
Lieux — Arkham (1), Salem (1), Université Miskatonic (1)
Objets — Le Necronomicon (4)