• Fun fact in the original Lovecraft mythos the Necronomicons were normal ass books that just happened to hold eldritch and arcane knowledge. Im sure anyone who has had the misfortune of opening up a copy of Wealth of nations or Capital knows the feeling.

      • @CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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        Well, normal is a stretch. It was still forbidden to read and written by a madman in his own blood, driving anyone reading it at least partially insane.

        Lovecraft was basing it on The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers. The character itself also appears in the Lovecraft pantheon as Hastur.

        • Pretty sure that counts as a normal college paper, but yeah it did have some secondary properties to it. But it wasnt bound in flesh or anything, plus by Lovecraft standards thats still pretty tame.

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            I think it being a normal book on the outside is actually scarier. The knowledge in the book was dangerous, not the object itself.

            I would never open the Book of the Dead from Evil Dead but I might open the Necronomicon if I find it at an antique bookstore or something.

            • Which is also why it works, much like most threats it looks utterly mundane on the outside but once ya look closser you see its true threat. A good example is an old crate of dynamite which may look fine externally but its likely the nitroglycerin has seeped out and if you move that crate you are being annihilated.

  • Rhaedas
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    “What’s that the face of?”

    “The previous reader.”

      • EleventhHour
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        I remember laughing so hard at that, when I saw in the theater, that everyone around me was like, “SSHHH!”

        I couldn’t help it. That was one of the funniest things in the whole movie.

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          My thought has always been, “who the hell grabs a book like that?”

          • Flying SquidOPM
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            Army of Darkness, aka Evil Dead 3 (although you don’t really need to see the first two and it’s much less horror and much more comedy than the first two as well).

      • EleventhHour
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        Brendan Fraser. Wow, what a roller coaster. I’m glad he’s doing well again. I like him.

  • hopesdead
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    Fuck Lovecraft.

    Anyways, I started reading The Light Fantastic and I spotted a parody called “Necrotelicomnicon” which is described of pages made of lizard skin.

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      That’s from the Evil Dead movies (and TV series). It was inspired by Lovecraft, in that the book is called the Necronomicon, but that’s about as far as it goes.

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          Like it or not, Lovecraft inspired a vast amount of modern horror. Yes, he was a horrible racist piece of shit. That can’t really be helped.

  • @SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net
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    75 months ago

    I have a necronomicon, but it has very basic binding, and I haven’t read it.

    It was a housewarming gift that made me go “the fuck mate, you want me to die and leave the house to you or what?” Which was apparently the exact right response.

  • @wjrii@lemmy.world
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    75 months ago

    Naw, man, that’s just the cookbook that tells you how long to leave the one big crumb in the bottom of your air fryer.

  • IninewCrow
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    55 months ago

    You can’t tell me wh… YAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! …MUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

  • nifty
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    55 months ago

    The plot of Evil Dead Rise wouldn’t have happened either if they followed this simple rule

      • nifty
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        I haven’t seen the originals, graphics are too low res

        /s

        I haven’t gotten around to watching them yet