In 738 A.D. in Damascus the mad arab Abdul Alhazred wrote the most terrible and frightening of books: the Al Azif, better known as the Necronomicon. Or at least, that's the story Howard Phillips Lovecraft tells us. In this video we will see how the Providence writer managed to make a fictional book much more famous than many actually existing books.
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Chapters:
00:00 Abdul Alhazred’s Al Azif
04:30 Weird Tales, February 1924
07:42 A background of verisimilitude
11:15 Marketing a fictional book
16:31 Necronomicon Files
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Background music:
"Creepy Clown Symphony" by Myuu
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"Vupna" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
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29 июн 2024