Message number 18504 in "Necronomicon"
Date: 04-23-93  22:53
From: Michael Aquino
To:   All
Subj: The Hay _Necronomicon_

Thanks to Frater Almost for your welcome, and to Azoth for the most 
interesting _Necronomicon_ comments. I picked up my Hay _N_ when it 
first came out from Gilbert's bookstore at Hollywood & Vine, which 
used to be the old occultist's watering hole in L.A. Long gone now.

Another tale about the Hay book: Shortly after it appeared, an 
article of mine on HPL ritual appeared in the magazine _Nyctalops_, 
following which Frank Belknap Long wrote to me (9/2/78):

"The inclusion of 'the Hounds of Tindalos' in that Satanic ritual 
startled me no end. I had no previous knowledge of this. Now I am 
really frightened, fearing that - oh, well. I shall probably be able 
to overcome that fear by telling myself, over and over, that the 
'Hounds' were solely an FBL construct and that I thought of them one 
morning while shaving. But still - one never knows.

"I knew absolutely nothing, I can assure you, of LaVey's ritual use 
of 'The Hounds' until the arrival of the _Nyctalops_ article, and 
seemingly none of my friends read the Avon volume. Otherwise I'm 
quite sure my attention would have been called to it long before 
this [1978]. I was appalled, as you surmise, that LaVey ascribed 
'The Hounds' to Nazi/SS ideology. It was published in _Weird Tales_ 
long before the rise of the Nazis and even before HPL's C-mythos had 
taken on its later, elaborately structured form. It could, of 
course, have gone back to the very wild period of German 
expressionism that immediately followed World War I - no, that began 
as early as 1910 or so - if I did not know better. I simply pulled 
the title out of thin air, in searching for something hideously 
chilling (some title with a fiery implication attached to it as well 
perhaps), and I remember that the word 'tinder' leapt immediately 
into my mind.

"Now another specter from 'long ago and far away' has arisen to 
astound me. In the just-published new volume about the 
_Necronomicon_, an elaborate ancestry has been traced for John Dee's 
translation. I pulled that non-existent translation out of thin air 
too, and it appeared at the head of 'The Space Eaters' in _Weird 
Tales_ in July 1928. HPL immediately incorporated it into the C-
mythos. The incredible things we set in motion without remotely 
suspecting they would have such momentous future consequences!"

--- Tabby 3.0
 * Origin: Glinda (1:125/430)