Book of the Dead

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The Book of the Dead, otherwise known as the Book, The Necronomicon, or the Al Azif, is an ancient grimoire of magnificent beauty and unspeakable horror. Many early-translated copies exist, but they contain little of the secrets of the Old Ones, and the incantations that deliver power over life and death. Rumor has it these details were intentionally omitted in the copies. The original remains lost to this day.

Abdul Alhazred dodged his way down the street, weaving between stallholders and layabouts and mothers with too many small children. He passed the newly built Umayyad Mosque, and briefly contemplated entering, before swerving hard, knowing that there would be no sanctuary anywhere for him now.

He babbled and cursed in between ragged breaths, and even giggled as people stepped from his path, thinking he was mad. Alhazred threw back his head and roared with laughter. He was mad — the Mad Arab — insane, sent insane by the things he had seen, things he had uncovered through his travels and then his further studies.

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