Necronomicon: A Manual of Corpse Eating by Martin Llewellyn

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The book is a beautifully constructed hardcover with dustjacket, and my edition has a numbered print from George Walker in front of the text. In the text itself, Llewellyn "translates" the found fragments of Abdullah Alhazred's Manual of Corpse Eating. The writing successfully captures the feel of an ancient text, like reading the Pre-Socratic fragments. Not all is given, and while what is there is itself gruesome, its presentation hints at things even more gruesome, the expl...icit description of which has been lost to time. (But there's enough there that a theory could be filled out, just as hundreds of pages have been written over the brief fragments of Heraclitus.) The fragments centre around the prescriptive uses of corpses and their ingestion, for the spiritual and physical betterment of the corpse eater. By successfully integrating the spiritual and physical, the author accurately mirrors the integrated theories that would have been the norm during the period in which the author is supposed to have written them (as these were never distinct fields in scientific endeavours until Cartesian dualism came along to separate them in the 1600's). With elements of the horrific and the academic, and with so many lovely illustrations, the book is absolutely delightful. Charlene Elsby

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