Cthulhu in the Necronomicon

Laban Shrewsbury's second book, which he began dictating to Andrew Phelan. Phelan found it utterly incomprehensible, being a book written for savants by a savant, but with occasional strangely stirring passages. One passage speaks of the survival of extra-dimensional beings who inspired legends around the world, and suggests that we turn the servants of rival beings against each other. Shrewsbury completed only the first volume before he and Phelan disappeared in 1938. Shrewsbury instructed Phelan to send a copy of the manuscript to a printer with a check to pay for its production; however, it is not clear whether the work was ever sent or printed. Shortly before their disappearance, Shrewsbury sent a copy of the manuscript to be kept at Miskatonic University Library. [AWD Curwen]

Later, Abel Keane consulted a copy of the manuscript in the Miskatonic University Library. He found it filled with learned and scholarly paragraphs concerning the lore of the Arab, Abdul Alhazred, as well as a reference to a star in the Hyades that must be Celaeno. There was also a quotation from the R'lyeh Text, prophecying the return of Cthulhu, Hastur, Nyarlathotep, and Shub-Niggurath. [AWD Sky]

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