The "new" Necronomicon
Correspondent:: Modemac
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:58:41 GMT
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Donald Tyson is better known in the pagan community as Llewellyn, the
author of the "Llewellyn's Witch Caldndar" you see in every calendar
store at the mall every year. Evidently he's decided to cash in on
the ongoing popularity of our favorite tentacle-faced Ultimate Evil,
and he's trying the old gyp that the Necronomicon was supposedly a
"real" book. I like the way the Amazon listing for this book notes,
"Tyson embellishes this core material with the sort of astrologic and
mystical content that Lovecraft himself considered nonsense."
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:52:04 -0700
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Modemac wrote:
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> "Tyson embellishes this core material with the
> sort of astrologic and mystical content that
> Lovecraft himself considered nonsense."
Oh nuts. I was hoping to do that.
I figure that it is basically a horror story, so
with a little practical psychology one could turn
the sexual neurosis of every angst-filled goth
teenager into something with the popularity of
A Nightmare on Elm Street.
In that there is a seemingly endless supply of
hormone and nerve end inflicted teenagers out
there, the number of hardback copies alone would
have me farting through silk until my withered
old buns were incarcerated in a Hajj-temple with
an alabastar sarcophagus.
Oh, sure, it might look like a horror story, but
it would really be about sex.
--
"Money can't buy you happiness,
but when you're poor, you can't
buy shit, and nobody will loan
you happiness."
--nu-monet
Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:12:34 -0800
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:58:41 GMT, Modemac wrote:
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738706272/qid=1107305617/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-4168315-1995052?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
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>Donald Tyson is better known in the pagan community as Llewellyn, the
>author of the "Llewellyn's Witch Caldndar" you see in every calendar
>store at the mall every year. Evidently he's decided to cash in on
>the ongoing popularity of our favorite tentacle-faced Ultimate Evil,
>and he's trying the old gyp that the Necronomicon was supposedly a
>"real" book. I like the way the Amazon listing for this book notes,
>"Tyson embellishes this core material with the sort of astrologic and
>mystical content that Lovecraft himself considered nonsense."
Donald Tyson's girlfriend:
http://www.igormeyer.com/nss-folder/pictures/Krogh2004.jpg
just for the record, Donald Tyson isn't known as Llewellyn, Llewellyn
is the name of a new-age publishing house. Tyson occasionally
contributes to Llewellyn calendars and so on.
As to whether the book is nonsense, an elaborate in-joke, or a
rip-off, that is hard to say. Tyson wrote a book I really liked years
ago, called "the new magus" or something like that. After that he
wrote an inadventantly funny fiction book where the strapping manly
hermetic magician saves a bunch of poor, mixed-up other occultists
from horrible forces of evil. Then he decided at some point that he
was now a pagan runes master and his next couple books were about
norse runes, a deadly boring subject any way you look at it. Next he
wrote a book about the enochian system, probably the best known and
respected set of magic rituals among hermetic magicians, in which he
claimed, a little hysterically I thought, that they were real and were
actually keys to bringing about the Apocalypse.
I started to worry about him around that time.
Going from the idea that the enochian system is a key to bringing
about the Apocalypse to his own version of the Necronomicon is a
fairly logical progression.
I hope he's kidding.
--
Zapanaz
International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
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unavoidable. This is true of all reality.
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang"
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 23:40:29 -0500
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In truth this would be termed the LATEST "new" Necronomicon. I've see
three completely different ones in paperback over the years, and they
ALL would have shamed Lovecraft. But then I understand he was an easily
shamed fellow.
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Correspondent:: nenslo
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:52:57 -0800
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"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote:
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> In truth this would be termed the LATEST "new" Necronomicon. I've see
> three completely different ones in paperback over the years, and they
> ALL would have shamed Lovecraft. But then I understand he was an easily
> shamed fellow.
>
I tried to read the one that reading just one page drives you completely
insane and things come through the walls and drag you into another
dimension, but I didn't get very far.
Correspondent:: Zapanaz
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:38:56 -0800
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:52:57 -0800, nenslo wrote:
>"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote:
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>> In truth this would be termed the LATEST "new" Necronomicon. I've see
>> three completely different ones in paperback over the years, and they
>> ALL would have shamed Lovecraft. But then I understand he was an easily
>> shamed fellow.
>>
>
>I tried to read the one that reading just one page drives you completely
>insane and things come through the walls and drag you into another
>dimension, but I didn't get very far.
I bet they had a hard time finding a publisher for that one.
--
Zapanaz
International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/
Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.
Correspondent:: Dan Clore
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 02:37:41 -0800
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Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
> In truth this would be termed the LATEST "new" Necronomicon. I've see
> three completely different ones in paperback over the years, and they
> ALL would have shamed Lovecraft. But then I understand he was an easily
> shamed fellow.
These incredibly rare texts seem to multiply the same way as
Christian relics. You could build a Noah's ark out of all
the pieces of the True Cross around, and fill countless
used-bookstores with these highly secret texts.
--
Dan Clore
My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1587154838/thedanclorenecro
Lord We˙rdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
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Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
Correspondent:: Dan Clore
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 02:35:17 -0800
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Modemac wrote:
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738706272/qid=1107305617/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-4168315-1995052?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
>
> Donald Tyson is better known in the pagan community as Llewellyn, the
> author of the "Llewellyn's Witch Caldndar" you see in every calendar
> store at the mall every year. Evidently he's decided to cash in on
> the ongoing popularity of our favorite tentacle-faced Ultimate Evil,
> and he's trying the old gyp that the Necronomicon was supposedly a
> "real" book. I like the way the Amazon listing for this book notes,
> "Tyson embellishes this core material with the sort of astrologic and
> mystical content that Lovecraft himself considered nonsense."
Looks like this one is admittedly, openly fictional, at
least. It might even be fun.
And my page falls even further out-of-date--
--
Dan Clore
My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1587154838/thedanclorenecro
Lord We˙rdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"