


It was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1924 short story "The Hound" written in 1922, though its purported author, the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, had been quoted a year earlier in Lovecraft's "The Nameless City" Among other things, the work contains an account of the Old Ones, their history, and the means for summoning them. The Necronomicon is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in the stories by horror writer H.
