Dark History of the Necronomicon - Dead Names

The Necronomicon has one of the most chaotic publication histories in occult literature, a fake book that became real, a prop that grew teeth.

Simon's Dead Names is the closest thing to a straight account of how the notorious 1977 Necronomicon actually came to exist, tracing the manuscript's murky origins through New York's occult underground, the figures who claimed to have found it, and the decades of controversy that followed. Whether you treat it as history, folklore, or a very compelling act of elaboration, it's a genuinely strange and readable document. Perfect shelf company for anyone already deep into chaos magick, Lovecraftian horror, or the kind of dark alternative rabbit holes that don't have a clean exit.

Paperback. Author: Simon (pen name). Publisher: HarperOne.