Necronomicon / Necronomicon El libro maldito de Alhazred / The Wanderings of Alhazred

"Upon these leaves are to be found accounts of living creatures beyond the higher spheres, of lost cities and other places forgotten by the memory of mankind; yet more pernicious still, the manner of summoning souls of the dead back into their mortal clay, and eliciting from them by means of torment secrets that lie hidden at the roots of the world, in dark caverns and beneath the depths of seas. Here also are instructions on the making of things quickened with a semblance of life, that were better left unmade, but cannot be unmade having been created.... Keep you all copies made of this Latin text chained and locked. Let no man who reads it speak of its contents, and let no man who knows of it reveal its existence to the ignorant, who are unfit to carry so grave a burden ... Better his eyes were put out with glowing coals from the fire and his lips sewn tight with flaxen thread than he should read the words in this book written in the forgotten tongue that was never meant to be spoken by the sons of Adam, but only by the others who have no mouths, and who dwell in the shadows between the stars." -Olaus Wormius, in the Preface to the 13th century Latin translation of the Necronomicon.Tyson, Donald is the author of 'Necronomicon / Necronomicon El libro maldito de Alhazred / The Wanderings of Alhazred', published 2004 under ISBN 9780738706276 and ISBN 0738706272.