NEKRONOMIKON

NEKRONOMIKON

The book Nekronomikon, The Manuscript of the Dead, was first published in the US in 2015 by Hippocampus Press.

Middle Ages. A strange monk arrives at the patriarchate of Constantinople and asks for an audience with the patriarch Theofylaktos Lekapinos. He must tell an unlikely, but true, story and reveal all those evidences about the malevolent forces that want to destroy the world. The patriarch together with other bishops agree to listen to the monk and…
When the American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft was inspired to write about the Necronomicon, the cursed and forbidden book of "magic", he thought it would open the gates to other worlds and dimensions within his literary stories. What he didn't expect was that it would open the floodgates of time and imagination, resulting in thousands of other writers, painters, sculptors, poets, musicians and filmmakers around the world influenced by his creation continuing to develop his nightmare dreams. .
But what is the story of the Necronomicon? According to H. F. Lovecraft, the author of the most diabolical book that ever existed is the Arab Abdul Alhazred and the original title of the book is Al Azif. The Greek who translated it from Arabic into Greek, Theodoros Philitas, called it necronomicon. In the book you are holding you will read the events and adventures of the life of Theodoros Philitas, before and after the discovery of the cursed book that became known in History with the name he gave it.

The book Nekronomikon, The Manuscript of the Dead, was first published in the US in 2015 by Hippocampus Press.

This book renews and reinterprets the mythology of Cthulhu and the Lawcraft traditions in new and distinct ways.
Wormwood magazine

I have just read a book with the impressive title Nekronomikon, The Manuscript of the Dead. It really is an excellent novel in the Lovecraftian tradition and I will do my best to get you to read it.
ST Joshi, author, book critic and HF Lovecraft scholar

The author, above all else, is a connoisseur of History.
Fred Phillips, American Lovecraftian poet

A highly original approach to the Lovecraftian myth, exploring the historical circumstances that led Theodore Philitas to translate Abdul Alhazred's work.
William Hopfrog Pugmire, American author of horror and fantasy stories

Antonis Antoniadis was born in Altena, Germany. He graduated from the School of Physiotherapy in Belgrade. Between 2000-2004 he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Avaton", while since 2004 he is the director of the magazine "Mystiki Greece". In 2003 he organized the production of the TV series "Unknown Gates" which was shown on ET3. His texts have been published in many books and he has also edited a similar number of books by other authors. He has written the studies Delphi, the Political Planning of the Priesthood and Strange Tales of Ancient Greeks. Also the historical novels The Wolf of Sparta and The Desert Campaign, which are also very successful in Italy, as well as the mystery novel Bacchus Demon.