Why Abdul Al Hazred Went Mad

Why Abdul Al Hazred Went Mad  by D.R. Smith The fabulous Necronomic fabulous Necronomicon on was  was never finished. finished. This is well known to all advanced advanced students of the occult whether or no they have had the coura!e and !ood fortune to "eruse a co"y. Well We ll known # in s"ite of the fact that few few who have delved into the soul#blastin! soul#blastin! secrets of that loathsome mi$ture of revoltin! instruction and blas"hemous history have mana!ed to  "reserve their sanity to read that that final cha"ter which be!ins with the mutterin!s mutterin!s of one in a frenzy and dies away in the hideous ravin!s ravin!s of mania. Abdul Al Hazred % may may his name be accursed forever % remained devilishly sane durin! d urin! the ac&uisition and recordin! of that abominable knowled!e which few throu!hout the centuries have dared to ac&uire even in  "art. 't was the story he attem"ted attem"ted to tell in that last frenzied frenzied cha"ter that shattered his black black mind and sent his s"irit !ibberin! with horror out of his diseased body and into the !leeful embrace of the torturers of the damned.  (o one has ever dared to make that story known. known. 'ndeed the most dili!ent search search has failed to trace any mention of the terrible messa!e by any student of the occult. )et it was known to one sublime !enius and the cru$ of it "ublished to the world in words still s"oken on the  "ublic sta!e* “(Anthony) … on the Alps It is reported reported thou didst eat eat strange flesh  Which some did die to look on” +ut should that story be widely known it may be that what drove the blas"hemin! Arab mad may well drive honest men sane. And so ' transcribe transcribe below shorn of as much of its incoherent madness as "ossible and cleansed of the filth that besmirched every thou!ht that  bubbled from the cess#"it of Alhazred,s Alhazred,s obscene mind a correct version version of the last cha"ter of  the Necronomicon the Necronomicon.. --There was ne ther. ther. The /reat /reat ne. /reat 0ather and /reat Mother in ne. /reater than than /reat 1thulhu than Hastur his brother than Shub#(i!!urath the /oat with a Thousand )oun! than Tsatho!!ua than /reat )o!#Sothoth himself % for They are but ne,s S"awn. ne was once of the /reat ld nes near the mi!htiest for ne challen!ed the su"remacy of Azathoth Azathoth Himself the blind idiot 2ord of All. (ay his children have told me % but this ' may not believe % that ne 3who 3who is too !reat to be (amed4 was indeed 2ord of All5 So !reat was ne that They#Who#Are#(ot#To#+e#Thou!ht#f They#Who#Are#(ot#To#+e#Thou!ht#f fearin! lest evil become su"reme hurled him from his awful throne and chained him with chains of flesh that he mi!ht not  break to this the 6lanet of the Damned. Damned. As he fell he s"awned s"awned )o!#Sothot )o!#Sothoth h who only is less than Azathoth. Azathoth. So says !reat 1thulhu first of the /reat Abominations Abominations which ne formed from his own flesh to be his servant and the masters of the "lanet.

Mi!hty was the /reat ne. 2oathsome the body They had bound him in % yet he !loried !loried in its horror and moulded it with his own will into a Thin! to describe which would strike death into the craven soul of mortal men. The 0aceless (yarlathote" messen!er messen!er of the /reat ld nes could not endure the foulness that was ne where he lay in a "ool of his own slimy e$halations in the cavern in the mountains lay and ruled the world with the terror of himself and the !ods he had s"awned. Had but ' Abdul Abdul Alhazred Alhazred been alive then to worshi" him5 /reat his 1hildren dili!ently dili!ently have ' served them and well have have they "aid me with ecstasies the name of which would draw shrieks of horror from those white#livered children# in#men,s#sha"es in#men,s#sha"es who talk so loud of their "uerile torturin!s with knives and fire and water. +ut the /reat ne % to serve him would have been % would have b een7 1urse the Roman5 May the Hounds of Tindalos Tindalos hunt his shriekin! soul throu!h the ends of s"ace for a million million million times times a million eons5 How could he do that which he did5 /reat 1thulhu ' asked and he shrank and would not re"ly. Tsatho!!ua Tsatho!!ua ' asked and Tsatho!!ua Tsatho!!ua would not tell me. )o!#Sothoth o!#Sothoth ' asked !reatest of the S"awn and )o!#Sothoth )o!#Sothoth would not tell me. )ea by my Art Art did ' call on (yarlathote" the faceless howler in the darkness commandin! the messen!er of the /reat ld nes as never man had dared before and  (yarlathote" ceased his eternal howlin! and would not re"ly re"ly thou!h he feared me as he fears fears only 1thu!ha the 8ternal 0iery ne who when the Time comes shall consume him utterly. Was it a machination of Azahtoth9 Was Azahtoth9 ne,s children children say Azathoth Azathoth even mi!hty as he was would never have dared to "lot a!ainst the /reat ne. )et surely it was by some hostile !uidance that this man this incredible man was driven with his rabble of soldiers into the mountains where lay the cavern of the the /reat ne. 6erha"s the 8lder /ods % but they had only wanted to e$ile the /reat ne not destroy him. However it was the Roman Roman came. Marcus Antonius Antonius a bi! brawlin! lecherous brute who  boasted he feared not !od nor devil. A foolish boast which many have made to me me % and fled shriekin! if they but smelt the week#old effluvium left from one of 1thulhu,s 1thulhu,s visits. +ut Marcus Antonius Antonius % how could there be such a man9 Man he was who fou!ht and loved like a man and died foolishly as a man will will throu!h stu"id devotion to a trollo". trollo". 1ould such a one be !reater than the /reat nes to whom ' have !iven so much worshi"9 That ' have damned myself to all eternity for % for7 (5 ' must must tell it. 't must must be recorded. This Antonius and his soldiers were lost. lost. Starvin!. They drank the urine of the horses. They killed the horses and ate them % and and went on throu!h the  bare mountains. Antonius was their their leader. He boasted of his stren!th and endurance and would not eat of the horse#flesh horse#flesh leavin! it for the others. n they went and they came to a valley % a !loomy cleft in the hills. hills. +ut water ran crystal clear clear down a rocky bed and scrubby "ines !rew around. They drank the water and made a hu!e fire of of the trees % but the hun!er was still there. And Marcus Antonius was the hun!riest hun!riest of all.

At the head of the cleft was a cave. 1aves are often inhabited inhabited by animals. Animals can can be eaten. Marcus Antonius Antonius led the way way to the mouth of the cave but there there all sto""ed. 0or from the cave came such a stench as would "utrefy a man,s soul within his livin! body and more evil than that. (one could advance further but Antonius who called called them cowards and went on went down into the dreadful !loom of that cavern. We Went nt alone7 Silence. A lon! silence. Then suddenly horribly the reverberatin! u"roar of a furious furious combat in some vast hollow below. below. 6art of the noise the bellow of fi!htin! fi!htin! % mad Marcus Antonius % "art of such a nature that many who heard fled screamin! from the accursed s"ot. They were the lucky ones. Those who remained white#faced white#faced frozen with terror heard the noises continue and draw nearer. Abru"tly the cavern belched forth a writhin! mass the maniacally fi!htin! Antonius Antonius smeared head to foot with a mi$ture of his own blood and revoltin! slime from That which he fou!ht. That which he dra!!ed out into the li!ht li!ht of day where never had it been seen before. That which his :avelin :avelin could not slay his sword not wound. That abomination at the si!ht si!ht of which the watchers dro""ed dead the very very souls  blasted out of their bodies. 't called for hel" and twili!ht shrouded the sun and the stron! sha"es of the Wind Walkers Walkers 'tha&ua and 2loi!or and ;har and !reat Hastur himself himself came howlin! down. And Antonius saw and lau!hed unafraid and called u"on