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<blockquote data-quote="Geoffrey" data-source="post: 1144199" data-attributes="member: 764"><p>The following are all of the stories by H. P. Lovecraft that mention and/or quote from the Necronomicon:</p><p></p><p>1. The Nameless City </p><p>2. The Hound</p><p>3. The Festival</p><p>4. The Call of Cthulhu</p><p>5. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward</p><p>6. The Dunwich Horror</p><p>7. The Whisperer in Darkness</p><p>8. At the Mountains of Madness</p><p>9. Dreams in the Witch-House</p><p>10. Through the Gates of the Silver Key</p><p>11. The Thing on the Doorstep</p><p>12. The Shadow Out of Time</p><p>13. The Haunter of the Dark</p><p></p><p>Nowhere in any of these stories does reading the Necronomicon make the reader go insane. It makes them shudder and recoil from the blasphemous truths contained therein, but they do not go insane. I do not doubt that other authors write about characters going insane simply because they read the Necronomicon, but Lovecraft never did that.</p><p></p><p>CoC gamemasters who wish to more closely approximate Lovecraft’s stories might want to consider dropping the sanity penalty for reading the Necronomicon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geoffrey, post: 1144199, member: 764"] The following are all of the stories by H. P. Lovecraft that mention and/or quote from the Necronomicon: 1. The Nameless City 2. The Hound 3. The Festival 4. The Call of Cthulhu 5. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward 6. The Dunwich Horror 7. The Whisperer in Darkness 8. At the Mountains of Madness 9. Dreams in the Witch-House 10. Through the Gates of the Silver Key 11. The Thing on the Doorstep 12. The Shadow Out of Time 13. The Haunter of the Dark Nowhere in any of these stories does reading the Necronomicon make the reader go insane. It makes them shudder and recoil from the blasphemous truths contained therein, but they do not go insane. I do not doubt that other authors write about characters going insane simply because they read the Necronomicon, but Lovecraft never did that. CoC gamemasters who wish to more closely approximate Lovecraft’s stories might want to consider dropping the sanity penalty for reading the Necronomicon. [/QUOTE]
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