The R'Lyeh Text: Hidden Leaves from the Necronomicon

by Robert Turner, George Hay (Editor), Colin Wilson (Introduction)

There is a race, says occultist Robert Turner, that rides curiously in tandem with humanity; a shadow an intense and inseparable 'Mr. Hyde'. So begins this presentation of the freshly deciphered text of the magical grimoire known as It pulls the reader into a darkly ambiguous reality where there are instructions for calling up potent entities-but nothing to reveal their intentions toward us. Must reading for anyone interested in the occult.

Genres: Horror, Occult

175 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1995

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Reviews

[Arthur B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Drags the joke on a little too long, but still amusing. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/202...

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

As I said in my review of the original volume of the Hay Necronomicon: The Book of Dead Names, the purpose of this book is "to give the "occult" camp of Lovecraft scholars place to express their views through an anthology of non-fiction essays, which masquerade as "prefaces" and "appendixes" to a brief section of invented rituals and magical symbols. " Unfortunately, in the intervening 18 years the quality has declined. This is partly due to the non-inclusion of some of the best writers (Lin Carter was dead and L. Sprague DeCamp was very old and probably had better things to do), but even Colin Wilson has contributed a shockingly bad piece about the reality of Atlantis and crystal magic. In short, the emphasis here should be on "occult" and not on "scholar."
I thought the most interesting article was Patricia Shore's "Awake in the Dream House." Despite its many historical inaccuracies and its bizarre structure (perhaps intentionally weird?), the article brings in a number of interesting ideas about Brown Jenkin, including the possibility that the fictional creature was based on some contemporary news stories about a rat-like "familiar" sighted on the Isle of Man. Apparently this tidbit is based on an article published in "Dagon" magazine, which sounds like it might be better than Shore's piece: one wishes the editors had gotten permission to reprint it, rather than soliciting new and largely prosaic occultnik essays.