Worried about keeping your Leaves organized until it is time to sew them together? Try this easy trick: stick a bobby pin on the top and bottom of the spine! It holds the pages together without damagi...
2018-10-07 15:24:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody,
Just a quick note to thank everyone who has supported this project these past six months. I can't wait for you to see what's next in the book. Not to be all mushy or anything, b...
2018-10-03 01:42:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello cultists! Let's begin.
Page 9 begins with a lengthy chant to Tsathoggua, lifted directly from a letter written by Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith. The reference to “the stone dese...
2018-09-22 13:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post
So I screwed up 100 copies of the next Leaf (always triple check your work folks), but rather than focus on the negative I am seeing it as an opportunity to begin practicing book binding!
So here we...
2018-09-20 00:57:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm hard at work getting these aged and ready for shipping out to you!
2018-09-18 22:26:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back! Page 7 has our first glimpse of a ritual. The Emanation of Yoth is a throw away reference from one of Lovecraft’s lesser known collaborations, The Man of Stone. Yoth plays a much bigge...
2018-08-24 16:32:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It's almost time to mail out Leaf 005! Thanks everyone for getting the word out. I'm going to include a business card with this mailing, so think about where it could go: give it to a friend, stick it...
2018-08-22 16:22:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Our friends over at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society are marking the occasion by offering a free download of their radio adaptation of The Colour Out of Space. Stop on by and download yours today...
2018-08-20 19:51:26 +0000 UTC View Post
On my way back from the Providence edition if this year's Festival. I wish I could have stayed for all three days, but Saturday was packed with fantastic films! I can't recommend Cold Skin highly enou...
2018-08-19 16:19:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a fantastic two part interview with grimoire specialist Jerry Drake. Fascinating and entertaining listening!
2018-08-16 12:20:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In making this book it occurred to me to actually bind two copies for myself, an aged but well preserved specimen (nicknamed the Curwen), and a worn, weathered, and damaged copy (the Whateley). I'm ex...
2018-08-04 19:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Today is the last day to get on the list for Leaf 004. These will mail out to you all on the 5th!
2018-07-31 14:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Part of the fun of this project is visualizing what your future Necronomicon will look like. To that end, this site offers some fantastic eye candy.
2018-07-22 21:41:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick note that I will be making the trek down to Providence next month as they are showing my first Lovecraft short film (Nyarlathotep) at this year's festival. I'll be doing a Q&A as well...
2018-07-20 09:14:08 +0000 UTC View PostAbdel's reference to his writing as a "Worke of Darknesse" is an important point, as he clearly doesn't dislike or fear these revelations. So I am staking a claim early on to a range of words that we ...
2018-07-17 20:52:05 +0000 UTC View Post
John Fleming: I am named after my great-great-grandfather so here is a ready-made backstory for the book! He brought the family over from Sylesia (Germany/Poland), but was already fluent in English. O...
2018-07-17 13:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post
First off, I know I owe you all a Spoiler Thread for Leaf 003. It's coming soon, I promise!
In the meantime, I've tried my hand at rock carving. This soapstone Cthulhu is my first attempt but I'm pr...
2018-07-16 20:13:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a sneak peek at Leaf 004 and a glimpse of some unfortunate souls who moved their lips while reading the incantation...
2018-07-13 20:43:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Another mailing has gone out to all you wonderful people. Thank you so much for your continued support and enthusiasm for this project. I realized that I hadn't written about why there is a delay betw...
2018-07-05 20:39:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Just throwing this out there as an interesting option for your finished tomes. The boards would need to be pretty thick, but it looks darned cool as an added oddball detail.
2018-07-01 10:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
My Necronomicon has a publishing date of 1648. Here is a real tome from around the same time, and with many similar features! This book ran 1,000 pages, featured woodcuts instead of engravings and had...
2018-06-28 15:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Leaf 002 was a real milestone. How do you start the Necronomicon?!? I decided to start with the meaning of Al-Azif, (the whispering of demons) as that is the source of Abdel’s occult knowle...
2018-06-23 13:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a sneak peek of Leaf 003!
2018-06-19 01:48:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Yup, index cards and an old filing drawer. It's better than a Common Place Book in that I can shuffle and arrange the cards as I go without having to rewrite or scratch things out. Anyway, it it doing...
2018-06-18 00:46:05 +0000 UTC View Post
One way I have found to wrap my head around this crazy project is to visualize it as 200 short stories, each spanning a length of about two pages. Sure they need to connect in certain ways, but it hel...
2018-06-12 21:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a quick mockup of what three complete quires will look like gathered together. Please help spread the word so we can get to 100 Patrons as at that point I'll be able to double my output!
2018-05-30 22:08:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Going forward I am going to use sheet protectors inside the envelopes. I want these pages to arrive safe and dry. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions on this topic.
2018-05-28 22:54:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick shot of the pages before I start packaging them up to mail out.
2018-05-26 16:34:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This will serve as a place for me to give a peak behind the curtains (at least a little) on what went into making the first leaf. I'll break it down page by page, with the cover being page 1, the Orde...
2018-05-25 20:48:33 +0000 UTC View PostAs the first Quire takes us pretty much to the halfway point of this milestone, I want to explain a few of my ideas for this section of the Necronomicon. First, Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark As...
2018-05-15 20:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post