The Masks of Cthulhu & the Cthulhu Mythos

"The vast, terrible enity from beyound time and sapce who waits brooding in his cyclopean home in sunken R'lyeh symbol and actuality of inimaginable nightmare - the greatest creation of H.P. Lovecraft.

The Cthulhu Mythos inspired many authors to write storoes using it as a theme - and thie anthology contains the best of these, together with key Cthulhu stories by Lovecraft. Some of these authors are: August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Howard, Frank Belknap Long , J. Vernon Shea".

The Masks of Lovecraft – The Al Azif Texts

“In brief, the book, originally entitled Al Azif, was written circa AD. 730 at Damascus by Abdul Alhazred, “a mad poet of Sana, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade Caliphs.”

Thereafter, its history was as follows:

“Translated into Greek as the Necronomican, AD. 950 by Theodouis Philetas”
“Burnt by Patriarch Michael, AD. 1050(IE Greek text...Arabic text now lost)
“Olaus Wormius translates the Greek into Latin, AD. 1228”
“Latin and Greek editions suppressed by Pope Gregory IX, AD. 1232”
“Black letter edition- Germany – 1440?”
“Greek text printed in Italy – 1500 – 1550”
Spanish translation of Latin text – 1600?”

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