For a century it impelled certainĮxperimenters to terrible attempts, when it was suppressed and burnt by Secretly translated into Greek by Theodorus Philetas of Constantinople Tho' surreptitious circulation amongst the philosophers of the age, was 950 the Azif, which had gained a considerable Indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called

HeĬlaimed to have seen fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to haveįound beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shockingĪnnals and secrets of a race older than mankind. biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster inīroad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number ofįright-frozen witnesses. Terrible and conflicting things are told. Written, and of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many In his last years Alhazredĭwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon ( Al Azif) was Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by Is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters ofĭeath. Secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southernĭesert of Arabia-the Roba el Khaliyeh or 'Empty Space' of theĪncients-and 'Dahna' or 'Crimson' desert of the modern Arabs, which He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean

Is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs,Ĭirca 700 A.D. 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.Ĭomposed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who

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