The dreaded Necronomicon is one of the most infamous books to ever see publication. It is a fictional grimoire which was spawned from the mind of H.P Lovecraft and was first mentioned in Lovecraft’s short story ‘The Hound’ which was published in Weird Tales Magazine in 1924. Lovecraft refers to the books author as Abdul Alhazred, known as ‘The Mad Arab”. The book itself concentrates on contacting and summoning ‘The Old Ones’. In the past 31 years, there has been a lot of ink—actual and virtual—spilled on the subject of the Necronomicon. Some have derided it as a clumsy hoax; others have praised it as a powerful grimoire. As the decades have passed, more information has come to light both on the book's origins and discovery, and on the information contained within its pages. The Necronomicon has been found to contain formula for spiritual trans-formation, consistent with some of the most ancient mystical processes in the world, processes that were not public knowledge when the book was first published, processes that involve communion with the stars. In spite of all the controversy, the first edition sold out before it was published. And it has never been out of print since then.