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The Necronomicon: Book One: The Episodes, a collection of Cthulhu Mythos fiction by Lin Carter.

Volume 3 in the Charnel House Chapbooks series.

Limited edition of 200 numbered copies.

Contains:

1. The Doom of Yakthoob
2. The Thing Under Memphis
3. In the City of Pillars
4. The Vault Beneath the Mosque

6. Mnomquah
7. The Madness Out of Time
8. Dreams of the Black Lotus
9. The Shadow from the Stars

Extract's from Robert M. Price's Introduction
In a letter to Clark Ashton Smith (November 18, 1938), H.P. Lovecraft noted in passing that according to his conception of the imaginary Necronomicon, the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred had recounted various "adventures of his" in Irem the City of Pillars (of Koranic fame) and elsewhere. With his characteristic sharp exegetical eye. Lin Carter noticed this intriguing tidbit and realized what a fine idea HPL had left undeveloped. While researching his Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos, Carter began writing up some of the mad Arab's adventures just for fun and then started adding to them some years later once he began to contribute regularly to Crypt of Cthulhu.

A word about the omission of one tale Lin had planned to include. He wanted to use Clark Ashton Smith's "The Ghoul" as one of the Narratives. In the same letter to Smith quoted above, Lovecraft remarked on his story, which Smith had sent him to read in mauscript: "Abdul mentioned your ghoul and told of other adventures of his . . ." Lin had first derived his plan to write up chapters of the Necronomicon in story form from Smith's "The Coming of the White Worm", which Smith himself had identified as a chapter of the Book of Eibon. So Lin decided that Smith's The Ghoul" was Alhazred's account of said ghoul. On the strength of that arbitrary inference Lin wanted to include the Smith story in his Necronomicon. For obvious reasons we have decided against it. You can find the story elsewhere anyway.