This first part covers pages 97 through 120, which is the mid-point of the Quire.
Page 97 ends the audience with Sebek, and begins our exploration of Akili as a Voormi. The Voormi ...
2020-03-13 21:25:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Necronomicon-themed short film Tome Alone will be included on the DVD and BluRay for the Best Of 2019 from the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival!
Here is the link for preorders: 2020-03-12 21:18:15 +0000 UTC View Post
With the February mailing going out this weekend I wanted to remind everyone that we are starting a new Quire.
Also, this mailing has something special: a sealed page. This has been a fun cha...
2020-03-07 23:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The folded sheet with the book curse and library stamp will play an important role in the finished book, but until we reach that point it may feel a bit disconnected. Don't try to nest it with the ...
2020-02-10 13:12:08 +0000 UTC View Post
(I am releasing this a month early as I have had a few folks asking about page order; please ignore Leaves 35 &36 until they show up at your mailbox in a couple of weeks!)
This visual sho...
2020-01-21 22:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Miskatonic Librarian Chad Anctil sent this fantastic tutorial for how he is building up the book as the Leaves are released.
Starting with an adjustable scrapbook (the kind held together with...
2020-01-17 23:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
We had an extra day of filming open up, so another promo video will be coming out in 2020.
Happy ...
2020-01-03 14:16:33 +0000 UTC View PostIn Lovecraft's essay Supernatural Horror in Literature he wrote:
"Some of Hawthorne’s notes tell of weird tales he would have written had he lived longer—an especially vivid plot being th...
2019-12-31 14:52:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This stunning bit of writing advice comes from the book The Spirit of Revision published by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society collecting the letters between HPL and Zealia Bishop.
Needles...
2019-12-21 16:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post
As you might recall a year ago I filmed a promo video for the project, but then that blossomed into a short film (Tome Alone) and played at NecronomiCon in Providence and the HPLFF in Oregon a few ...
2019-12-05 00:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello fiends,
I hope the end of November finds you in a good place. I struggle with Thanksgiving but in a concerted effort to not be a Krampus about it I have revived an old family tradition:...
2019-11-28 23:38:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Patron's Day!
As a thank you for your support, I wanted to share a delightful find from my research. This is an excerpt from a letter from Nov. 18th, 1930 to Clark Ashton Smith:
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2019-11-20 01:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello cultists!
Here is the long-awaited behind the scenes guide for the entirety of the Second Quire (pages 49-96), moving chronologically through the book. This may be the format moving for...
2019-11-10 22:12:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Some folks might be wondering where some of the more exotic names in Quire 3 originated. In a letter Clark Ashton Smith laid out a genealogy for Tsathoggua and the antagonist of his tale The Testam...
2019-11-09 11:35:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprinkled (lightly) through the book so far you may have noticed a word or two in Arabic. How did they get there? This is after all an English translation of the Latin translation of the Gree...
2019-10-29 00:46:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks,
I wanted to share something I made Yesterday. While not exactly Necronomicon related, it certainly is Lovecraftian!
Thanks for your patience with my car troubles last month, ...
2019-10-28 19:35:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks,
the alternator in my car decided to go, and the saga of trying to get it towed to the garage is still ongoing. I am trying hard to not let this impact mailing the August pages, but...
2019-10-08 20:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a fun (and free) way to get into the Halloween spirit! I listen to Mythos related podcasts and audio at my day job to maximize my prep time for writing the Necronomicon. Sometimes that mean...
2019-10-02 20:37:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody,
Many of you have written to state your preference for rubber stamps on the Curse Page (Miskatonic, British Museum or blank). I have noted all of these.
I want to ma...
2019-09-29 13:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This visual should help with keeping the second set of pages in order. As there are more "text heavy" pages in the second Quire I have added the first few words as a key above them (remember that t...
2019-09-29 11:57:20 +0000 UTC View Post
In the interest of keeping these pages in the correct order I have made this visual to help. All twelve of these nest inside each other (2 inside 1, 3 inside 2, etc.) to make the first Quire.
I wanted to make sure folks saw a project I am really excited about. This is a new film by Aaron Vanek, inspired by the Delta Green RPG (think X-Files with a Mythos twist).
Aaron is directly ...
2019-08-31 11:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, the surprise I had for Patrons at the convention will be sent to everyone next month (September mailing). It is the front end paper, complete with a book curse (hand written by the ama...
2019-08-25 21:43:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. Chad Fiifer and Chris Lackey were just as kind and gracious as they sound on their show and it meant so much to me to be able to thank them with a...
2019-08-25 21:30:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey fiends,
I am heading to Providence today with my wife and young cultists. Our short film Tome Alone plays tonight at the AS220 Black Box Theater (downtown at 95 Empire Street) at 10 PM as...
2019-08-23 12:18:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope to have the video put together soon after NecronomiCon! There were some interesting challenges but overall the binding went very smoothly.
2019-08-19 13:23:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I will have a lot more images to share, but here is a sneak peek at the bookbinding process!
2019-08-07 16:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I am making a mockup of the finished Necronomicon. I will post updates and also document the process in a video!
2019-07-24 20:59:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a reminder that I will be at NecronomiCon this August, and I will have something special for Patrons! Don't worry if you can't attend, I will roll it out to everyone after the convention. ...
2019-07-22 21:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostYou're welcome.
Actually, I found a few that I really enjoyed (Witch Hollow for example was really fun) and once you accept that there will be the litany of names, Elder God BS, etc. they can...
2019-06-12 01:15:04 +0000 UTC View Post