Al Azif - The Cipher Manuscript known as "Necronomicon" Notes regarding this Etex t edition This etext version of the book, Al Azif has been entered into Hypertext by Ken Ottinger over the course of some few months. This project was completely funded by the Universal Life Trust. The reason for the project was the realization that so many people were fascinated by H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. Reading the newsgroups alt.necronomicon and alt.necromicon and seeing so many requests for an online copy of the Necronomicon, and then seeing the arguments and debates as to whether the text actually existed or not prompted me to search out the research work of Colin Wilson, George Hay, Robert Turner and David Langford. These men, publishing through CORGI Books of Chaucer Press, Ltd., Great Britain, provided a translation of a cipher manuscript of Dr. John Dee's called Liber Logaeth, a portion of a larger manuscript, the origin and nature of which is not known. Due to its history and the similarity in content to the Cthulhu Mythos, this document has been presented by these men as being, at least a portion of, the document which was the inspiration for HPL's Necronomicon. Because of copyright restrictions, I have included only quotes from the original manuscript used in the CORGI edition. The bulk of this etext edition is the text of the manuscript Liber Logaeth which has been translated to date. This is presented as a Tool or Guide leading toward additional research. Al Az if Ye Book of Ye Arab, Abdul Alhazred, 730 at Damascus Of Ye Old Ones and their Spaw n The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are and the Old Ones shall be. From the dark stars They came ere man was born, unseen a...
