Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon

337 Pages·2006·24.075 MB·English

by  Simon

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and all that I haV^ karntd • • •
It has been more than thirty years since
the events I am about to describe. They
involve a world—a demimonde—that is
largely unknown outside a very small
circle. The reader must be prepared to
deal with a wide range of mysterious
subjects, from secret societies to serial
murder, from tiny ethnic churches to
political assassinations, from organized
religion to the most extreme forms of
western occultism.
The most shocking part of this narrative
will be the realization that it is all true.
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D E A D N A M E S
THE DARK HISTORY OF THE
NECRONOMICON
S I M O N
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To Lawrence K. Barnes, who believed
And to W. Andrew Prazsky, who did not
To W. Anthony Prazsky, who spoke the truth
about this world
And to Herman Slater, who spoke the truth
about the next
. . . spirit of the Sky, remember!

Acknowledgment^
As a careful reader will surmise, some of the persons to
whom credit is due prefer not to be mentioned by name in
this work. As with my prior works, I refer to myself under
the pseudonym Simon. At times, I attribute conduct to my­
self to protect the privacy of others referred to in the text.
This includes some of the ecclesiastical personnel contacted
by myself and my colleagues during the course of putting
this small history together over the past year. Most of these
gentlemen are worried about the impact this account will
have on their own reputations, so their names have been
omitted from the story.
There are others, however, to whom credit is due and who
must be acknowledged here. This includes, first and foremost,
Hugh and Mary Anne Barnes—the father and stepmother of
Larry Barnes—who very kindly made their memories of their
son available to me where my own memory was faulty or un­
sure. They also kindly allowed some of Larry’s art to be re­
produced in these pages.
I would also like to thank Frater Inominandum of the OTO,
who very kindly made available to me copies of his excellent
occult resource, Behutet; Michael Burgess, whose Lords Tem­
poral and Lords Spiritual is an interesting guide to the world
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of Eastern Orthodoxy; to Judith McNally for her memories
of the pericxl; and to the surviving members of StarGroup
One, now scattered around the country; to JC, editor extraor­
dinaire, who helped make this book better than it was.
Spirit of the Earth, remember!