

He spent most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island, and he chose to set most of his stories there, or in imaginary towns and locales in Massachusetts.

The Necronomicon is a fictional “prop,” invented by the American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft.ĭuring his brief life (from 1890 to 1937), he produced original short stories (as well as extensive revisions to the tales of other authors), novels, poetry, and essays and is now considered to be one of the most significant authors of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. Read on and learn the truth about this controversial tome. This essay was written as an expansion of a “sig” file response we’ve used to answer the large amount of e-mail the Church of Satan continually receives concerning this purported book, the Necronomicon, and its history and validity.
