Necronomicon - Spellbook

The mad Arab Abdul Alhazred allegedly wrote it in the eighth century, H.P. Lovecraft made it legendary, and somehow it keeps ending up on bookshelves between candles and tarot decks.

Peter Levenda's Necronomicon Spellbook strips out the surrounding mythos and gets into the actual practical material, the invocations, seals, and ritual workings drawn from the Simon Necronomicon, presented in a format that actually makes sense to use. Whether you're approaching this as genuine occult practice or as a deep dive into the aesthetics and history of dark esoteric tradition, Levenda's scholarship gives it more weight than your average grimoire reprint. It sits comfortably alongside chaos magick texts, Crowley, and the kind of horror-adjacent occultism that's always had a home in the alternative and gothic underground.

Paperback. Author: Peter Levenda. Publisher: Ibis Press.