Grimoire
Created: February 2017
| Updated: February 2017
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Overview
Grimoires are books of great importance or power and are the source of much of the forbidden knowledge that illuminates the darkest recesses of the world. These books contain forbidden knowledge and discoveries about the [Great Old Ones]] or of many occult topics. Often times these discoveries of forbidden truths end up driving the reader insane or leading to their ruin in one way or another.
Complete List of Known Grimoires
Al-Azif (Necronomicon)
Book of Azathoth
Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan
Magnum Immonandum
The Dhol Chants
Poakotic Fragments
Clay Cylinders of Kadethron
Ars Magna et Ultima
Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
Book of Dzyan
Confessions of Monk Clithanus
Celaeno Fragments
The R'lyeh Text
Investigations into the Myth-Patterns of Latter-Day Primitives, with Especial Reference to the "R'yleh Text"
Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New-England Canaan
Cthulhu in the Necronomicon
Parchments of Pnom
Testament of Carnamagos
Unaussprechliche Kulte
Cultes Des Goules
The Black Rites
Commentaries on Witchcraft
The Daemonolorum
De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis
Revelations of Gla'aki
On the Sending Out of the Soul
Eltdown Shards
Chronike von Nath
The Zanthu Tablets
Rituals of Yhe
Yuggia Chants
Ponape Scripture
The Prehistoric Pacific in the Light of the "Ponape Scripture"
G'harne Fragments
Cthäat Aquadingen
Legend of the Olden Runes
Fischbuch
Legends of Liqualia
In Pressured Places
Hydrophinnae
Unter Zee Kulten
Dwellers in the Depths
Ghorl Nigral
Chthonic Revelations
Trivia
This trend was began by H. P. Lovecraft already before the creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. He also encouraged his colleagues (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard and others) to utilize his grimoires in their stories and to invent their own. The appearance of references to these forbidden books in the works of many authors lead to readers believing they might be real. Some of the most well known grimoires in the mythos are the Necronomicon (or "Kitab Al-Azif"), Book of Eibon and Unaussprechlichen Kulten.