Abdul Alhazred
The title of the third picture in the series "Visionaries" sounds like "Abdul Alhazred", that is the most mythical character of the Great Master of black fiction, visionary, writer and creator of his own subgenre of literature – Howard Phillips Lovecraft. As Lovecraft himself wrote, this name was invented in early childhood either by him or by one of his relatives at the time of his passion for reading the Arabian Nights, when "I passionately desired to become an Arab; years later it occurred to me that it would be funny to use it as the name of the author of the forbidden book.. Necronomicon".
Lovecraft's entire human and creative life is the kindling of an "Inner Fire" in a lamp, flask or athanor of his Spirit and its fixation, translation and glow in material reality.
Lovecraft's entire human and creative life is the kindling of an "Inner Fire" in a lamp, flask or athanor of his Spirit and its fixation, translation and glow in material reality.
The History of the Necronomicon
By H. P. Lovecraft
Original title Al Azif-azif being the word used by Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos’d to be the howling of daemons.
Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia—the Roba el Khaliyeh or “Empty Space” of the ancients—and “Dahna” or “Crimson” desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Al Azif) was written, and of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. He is said by Ebn Khallikan (12th cent. biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses. Of his madness many things are told. He claimed to have seen fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind. He was only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu.
