OFF: was Monster Magnet, now HRGiger

[Nick Medford]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 18:10:33 +0200, Henderson Keith <keith.henderson at PSI.CH>
wrote:

>And it's actually spelled Necronomicon, which helps to actually get
>some hits when using a search engine.  :)  And it's some strange old
>mythical writing from some Arabic land...sort of the Mid-east Book
>of the Dead or something?  And according to Giger's book, one
>recounting of the essence of the original was done by JP Lovecraft.
>Is that the same person as HP Lovecraft, but with a "German" form
>of his first name, or a relative, or what?

The Necronomicon (book of dead names) is a fictitious "ancient manuscript"
dreamed up by HP Lovecraft and often mentioned in his overheated purple
prose short stories (there's a few stories by him I really like, but
generally there's just too much of the Terrible Old Ones waving their
Hideous Slimy Tentacles around, usually under the light of a Gibbous Moon
during a Night of Sickening Dread.. you get the picture). I have no idea
who JP Lovecraft is/was and suspect that was a misprint or other error.

The kind of people that have difficulty distinguishing fantasy and reality
often have a particular enthusiasm for Lovecraft, and may claim that his
stories were based on another plane of reality that revealed itself to him
in his dreams, and that the Necronomicon really exists, and sundry other
foolish things.

Nick