THE DEEP ONES: "......Translation of the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred" by John Brunner
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1gwendetenebre
"Concerning the Forthcoming Inexpensive Paperback Translation of the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred" by John Brunner.
Discussion begins on December 4, 2024.
First published in the Spring 1992 issue of Weird Tales.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?77227
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
The Necronomicon: Selected Stories and Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab
ONLINE VERSIONS
No online versions found to date.
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brunner_(author)
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brunner_john
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00TouBRitR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23optrFeCG0
https://www.blackgate.com/2014/11/29/robert-silverberg-on-the-tragic-death-of-jo...
https://tinyurl.com/bdze36rc
Discussion begins on December 4, 2024.
First published in the Spring 1992 issue of Weird Tales.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?77227
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
The Necronomicon: Selected Stories and Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab
ONLINE VERSIONS
No online versions found to date.
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brunner_(author)
https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brunner_john
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00TouBRitR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23optrFeCG0
https://www.blackgate.com/2014/11/29/robert-silverberg-on-the-tragic-death-of-jo...
https://tinyurl.com/bdze36rc
2gwendetenebre
So there IS a character limit for the subject line on these!
I'm going to try and dig out my copy of Weird Tales.
I'm going to try and dig out my copy of Weird Tales.
3paradoxosalpha
I probably can't have my copy of the Price Necronomicon in hand until Thursday, so I might be a bit late to the party.
4RandyStafford
I certainly didn't expect to see a Mythos tale from John Brunner.
It was amusing.
Robert M. Price offers a theory that this is an inversion of Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror". In that story, Miskatonic University has some rural yokel, Wilbur Whateley, wanting librarian Henry Armitage to give him a copy of the school’s Necronomicon. Armitage refuses and comes to mind-blowing knowledge when he meets and defeats Whateley’s plans. Here a yokel from America wants Wharton’s Necronomicon. But Marsh and Schultz already have their own copy and the evil they represent isn’t defeated. It spreads.
I think the stress of Schultz showing up and doing his own translation -- finally -- drove Wharton mad and his glimpses of alien-human hybrids are just delusions. So is the "giant press" beneath the asylum.
It was amusing.
Robert M. Price offers a theory that this is an inversion of Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror". In that story, Miskatonic University has some rural yokel, Wilbur Whateley, wanting librarian Henry Armitage to give him a copy of the school’s Necronomicon. Armitage refuses and comes to mind-blowing knowledge when he meets and defeats Whateley’s plans. Here a yokel from America wants Wharton’s Necronomicon. But Marsh and Schultz already have their own copy and the evil they represent isn’t defeated. It spreads.
I think the stress of Schultz showing up and doing his own translation -- finally -- drove Wharton mad and his glimpses of alien-human hybrids are just delusions. So is the "giant press" beneath the asylum.
6paradoxosalpha
The feature of the English (fictional) Arkham and (actual) Dunwich existing with the (fictional) eponymous Massachusetts towns was strange. It felt like it should signify something, but I couldn't think what.
7RandyStafford
>6 paradoxosalpha: Yeah, nothing was done with the idea Marsh was investigating the links between the Peabody branches.
