The NECRONOMICON

Roy C. Lackey · 13 Jun 2001, 13:32 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net>
Subject: (urth) Re: The NECRONOMICON
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:32:59
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mantis wrote:

>>Ach, Roy--he got you!<<

That's what I get for not doing the homework!

>>Since LUSTY LAWYER by Amanda Ros is the forgery (?) in PEACE, this is the
one for the invisible library: the others I assume are all real titles.<<

I don't know about the rest, but of the NECRONOMICON, Gold claims to have
"just wrote it" (215),  and that it was "never mentioned in print anywhere
until the providential gentleman I spoke of a few moments ago made the
entire thing up. Now it has achieved reality . . ." (216) So I'm confused.
If HPL made it up, and Gold wrote it, did (does) it exist or not? If not,
who gets credit for it in the Invisible Library?

-Roy

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