'The book that drives readers insane' sounds like we're trying to sell a modern fiction of a popular author, don't we? It's catchy, isn't it? But this is an ancient book we're talking about here, and we're definitely not interested in selling it! What if this book is really magic and actually does what it claims to do? Here's what Necronomicon is all about...
The original copy was never discovered, but excerpts are being collected and read by many people. The book is famous for its creepy details.
Being full of creepy details, this book allegedly brings readers madness and death. It tells about how Alhazred wandered around in the desert and got hold of ancient chronicles.
It mentions incredible details about The Flood which are similar to long-argued Jewish myths but Orthodox Judaism do not accept these allegations. The book claims to give insight to where the religions got their roots from.
They came from other planets, and according Neo-Platonism there is life on other stars. These living things have an evolutionary hierarchy.
Here are other details from the book:
On the other hand, this is a dangerous path, because a human being should only bear the burden they can tolerate.
And the claims that Necronomicon brings people into the depths of madness...
People cannot stand horrible realities and get trapped inside their minds after learning about the truth.
Some people claim that the original book is in the Vatican and it is banned by the Papacy.
According to H. P. Lovecraft's 'History of the Necronomicon', copies of the original Necronomicon were held by only five institutions worldwide:
The British Museum
The Bibliothèque nationale de France
Widener Library of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
The University of Buenos Aires
The library of the fictional Miskatonic University in the also fictitious Arkham, Massachusetts