The Leaves of a Necronomicon

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“What will you discover when you meet this gallery of fools and villains and dreamers?”
—Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

The Necronomicon. For centuries, scholars of the occult have sought out the darkly fabled tome, hoping to gain insight into the secret workings of the universe—or unbridled power. Instead, the book rewards their pursuit with madness and devastation.

Under the guidance of Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., The Leaves of a Necronomicon traces the impact of a single copy of the mysterious work on its owners and those around them as it passes from hand to hand across the decades.

The history is told in braided novel form, with chapters contributed by a gathering of outstanding horror and dark fantasy authors, including S. P. Miskowski, Michael Cisco, Damien Angelica Walters, Nick Mamatas, Anna Tambour, and Jeffrey Thomas.

Table of Contents
Introduction: “From Hand to Hand… to Hand”— by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
Chapter 1: “The Bookmaker” by Nate Pedersen
Chapter 2: “The Collector of Rare Editions” by Donald Tyson
Chapter 3: “Down to a Sunless Sea” by Allyson Bird
Chapter 4: “Dawn Watch” by Daniel Mills
Chapter 5: “Liquor City” by Nick Mamatas
Interlude: “In Waves” by S. P. Miskowski
Chapter 6: “Eyes on Fire” by Cody Goodfellow
Chapter 7: “Horrors Worse than Hell” by Robert M. Price
Chapter 8: “Laying the Words” by Don Webb
Interlude: “Mysteries Don’t Sleep” by Anna Tambour
Chapter 9: “The Sun Saw” by Mike Allen
Chapter 10: “American Ghost” by John Claude Smith
Chapter 11: “Flickering I Roam” by E. Catherine Tobler
Chapter 12: “Sewn into Pieces, Stitched into Place” by Damien Angelica Walters
Chapter 13: “Too Many Pages” by Simon Strantzas
Chapter 14: “11:00” by Nikki Guerlain
Chapter 15: “Void Kiss” by Michael Cisco
Interlude: “Letter Found Sitting atop a Rare Old Handbook of Dark Portent” by Anna Tambour
Chapter 16: “And I Watered It in Fears” by Sunny Moraine
Chapter 17: “Miles and Kathrine at the Crimson” by Michael Griffin
Chapter 18: “Passages for the Dying and the Dead” by S. P. Miskowski
Chapter 19: “Ménage à Trois” by Ross E. Lockhart
Chapter 20: “The Persuader” by Jeffrey Thomas
Afterword: “Over the Moon” by Anna Tambour