The Leaves of a Necronomicon (BOOK)

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 simple brute power. What the book offered them instead was, more often than not, 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, Jeffrey Thomas, and more.

• Paperback, 272 pages.

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: Eyes of Flame, by Cody Goodfellow
Chapter 6: In Waves, by S.P. Miskowski
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: 11:00, by Nikki Guerlain
Chapter 14: Void Kiss, by Michael Cisco
Chapter 15: Liquor City, by Nick Mamatas

Interlude: Letter Found Sitting Atop a Rare Old Handbook of Dark Portent, by Anna Tambour

Chapter 16: Too Many Pages, by Simon Strantzas
Chapter 17: And I Watered It in Fears, by Sunny Moraine
Chapter 18: Miles and Katherine at the Crimson, by Michael Griffin
Chapter 19: Passages for the Dying and the Dead, by S.P. Miskowski
Chapter 20: Ménage à Trois, by Ross E. Lockhart
Chapter 21: The Persuader, by Jeffrey Thomas