DAW - Donald A. Wollheim
On the whole, tlus publication will live as an outstanding contribution to Occult lore. It is also the introduction to the element of Elder Gods who according to the ideas of mystics came before the Modern Demons set in.
-From Wollheim's review of the Necronomicon
DAW Review - Donald A. Wollheim, The Necronomicon, in H. P. Lovecraft (ed. David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi), Letters to Robert Bloch and Others. New York: Hippocampus Press, 2015.
See also the free online text at Librarium Cthulhuvius.
This curious piece is a three-paragraph review of an imaginary modern English edition of the Necronomicon. The review was originally published in the Bradford Review and East Haven News 8, No. 24 (Thursday, 12 September 1935). It is more a hoax than a work of overt fiction, but does add an interesting chapter to the publication history of the Necronomicon. It was discovered by Donovan K. Loucks (of The H. P. Lovecraft Archive) and reprinted in an appendix to a volume of Lovecraft's letters.
Narrator: Nameless. References: Alhazred, Abdul; Bierce, Ambrose; Chambers, Robert W.; Elder Gods; Faraday, W. T.; Necronomicon; Wormius, Olaus;
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