Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Fake Books of Great Significance

I've been struggling with developing a paper topic for the last few weeks. I knew that I wanted to have a focus on "The Black Stone" since it was a story that I really enjoyed more than others. I also found the Repairer of Reputations to be an extremely interesting story and I found a tie between the two stories in the mythical text that no one was allowed to read but most were aware of. It reminded me of Catch 22 because allegedly nobody was allowed to have read it or nobody had seen the text for years but somehow everyone was still very aware of it and knew that there was something very wrong about what was in those pages. I then stumbled upon the Necronomicon, a fake book of great significance in the Lovecraft mythos much like the book "Nameless Cults" in Howard's "The Black Stone". I would like to focus my paper on the three fake but mythic books from these authors: "Nameless Cults", "Necronomicon", and "The King in Yellow". I'd like to write about what made these books so important in the grand scheme of things in their respective stories and then go into how this idea of a banned evil book or in the case of "The King in Yellow", play, has evolved into popular culture with movies like The Number 23 and Lovecraft's own Necronomicon playing a major part in the Evil Dead series.

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