193? – William Lumley (1880-1960) writes in a letter to HPL that he believes HPL’s fiction has been influenced by cosmic powers corresponding to the supposedly fictional Azathoth, Yog Sothoth and Cthulhu.
1948 – ‘An Interpretation on the Emerald Tablets’ by Dr. Doreal, head of the Brotherhood of the White Temple, refers to “Yog Sog-thoth”.
1951 – ‘Agartha’ by the Buddhist author Robert Ernst Dickhoff, mentions “The Great Old Ones” and “The Elder Gods” along with the mountain of Kadath.
1972 – ‘The Satanic Rituals’ by Anton Sandor Lavey include psychodrama rituals by Michael Aquino with invocations of Shub-Niggurath and Cthulhu.
1972 – ‘The Magical Revival’ by Kenneth Grant. This is the first of the nine volumes of Grant’s Typhonian Trilogies where he develops his own interpretation of Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. Grant compares certain themes in Lovecraft’s fiction with concepts in Crowley’s philosophy and claims, like William Lumley, that HPL was unwittingly channeling cosmic powers through his fiction.
1973 – ‘Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God’ by Kenneth Grant.
1975 – ‘Cults of the Shadow’ by Kenneth Grant.
1977 – ‘Nightside of Eden’ by Kenneth Grant.
1977 – ‘Necronomicon’ is released by Schlangekraft. It is dubbed the “Simon Necronomicon” after the pseudonym of its translator (or author). The content is primarily based on Mesopotamian myth (both Sumerian and Babylonian).
1978 – ‘Necronomicon: the book of dead names’ edited by George Hay and with an introduction by Colin Wilson, is published by Corgi. They claim the text is the result of a computer analysis of a cipher text by Elisabethan mathematician and magician Dr. John Dee, but later admit that it is all a hoax.
1980 – ‘Outside the Circles of Time’ by Kenneth Grant.
1980 – The Simon Necronomicon is published in paperback by Avon.
1980 – ‘Das Necronomicon’ is published Verlag Richard Schikowski of Berlin. It is a translation of the Simon book combined with the Goetia (from the Lesser Key of Solomon). The book is spuriously attributed to Gregor A. Gregorius, the pseudonym of Eugen Grosche, head of the German occult society Fraternitas Saturni.
1985 – Frank G Ripel’s ‘La magia di Atlantide. Sautheneron: la fonte del Necronomicon’ (‘Magic of Atlantis – Sauthenerom: The Real Source of the Necronomicon’) is published by Hermes. This book combines the ritual magick of Aleister Crowley with the authors own interpretation of HP Lovecrafts mythos.
1986 – Hermes publishes Ripel’s ‘La Magia Stellare. Il Vero Necronomicon.’ (‘The Stellar Magic. The True Necronomicon’), a follow up on his earlier book.
1987 – Daath Press releases ‘Cults of Cthulhu: HP Lovecraft and the Occult Tradition’ by Frater Tenebrous (Peter Smith). This pamphlet is mainly influenced by the work of Kenneth Grant and discusses the hypothesis that HPL channeled the Great Old Ones the nightmares that he based some of his fiction on.
1988 – “Simon” releases the ‘Necronomicon Spellbook’.
1988 - 'The Voudon Gnostic Workbook' by Michael Bertiaux. This very eclectic and unique work includes a discussion on working with "energies" from Yuggoth.
1989 – Starry Wisdom Press publishes ‘Dagon Rising’ by Frater Sadashtor 645. This short pamphlet contains essays and litanies concerning Dagon.
1992 – ‘Hecate’s Fountain’ by Kenneth Grant.
1992 – ‘The R’lyeh Text’, a complementary text to the George Hay Necronomicon, is published by Skoob Books.
1992 – Fernando Perez-Vigo publishes ‘El Necronomicon: Libro de los Nombres Muertos’, a Spanish language Necronomicon composed of texts from the Hay and Ripel versions.
1993 – Pietro Pizzari’s Necronomicon was supposedly discovered in a manuscript in the Vatican Library. The book contains the authors own version of Lovecrafts mythos.
1994 – ‘Outer Gateways’ by Kenneth Grant.
1994 – Fanucci Editors of Rome publish an Italian translation of the Hay Necronomicon. They later publish a sequel purporting to contain material found in the tomb of Abdul Alhazred in Yemen.
1994 – Creation Books publishes ‘The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute to H P Lovecraft’ containing both short stories and esoteric essays inspired by HPL’s fiction.
1996 – Chaos International publishes Phil Hine’s ‘The Pseudonomicon’, a pamphlet with advice on using Lovecraft’s mythos as a symbolic interface when practicing Chaos Magic.
1996 - Brotherhood of Life publishes 'Polaria: The Gift of the White Stone' by W. H. Müller.
1997 – Logos Press releases Stephen Sennit’s ‘Liber Koth’, a pamphlet collecting essays on Chaos Magic inspired by HPL.
1998 – Logos Press releases Stephen Sennit’s ‘Nox: The Black Book’, a pamphlet collecting essays on various occult and satanic subjects with some influences from HPL.
1999 – ‘Beyond the Mauve Zone’ by Kenneth Grant.
1999 – Sacred Grove / Crystal Dawn Press publishes ‘Necronomicon: A Compendium on Ceremonial Magick’ by Merlyn Stone (Joshua Free). This pamphlet includes material from medieval grimoires and modern books on ritual magic combined with parts of the Simon version.
2002 – ‘The Ninth Arch’ by Kenneth Grant.
2002 – ‘The H. P. Lovecraft Tarot’, created by D L Hutchinson, Eric Friedman and David Wynn, is published by Mythos Books.
2004 – Llewellyn releases Canadian occultist Donald Tyson ‘Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred’.
2005 - 'Nocturnicon: Calling Dark Forces and Powers' by "Konstantinos" examines various kinds of "dark" occult practices (necromancy, goetia, etc) and has a section on working with entities from Lovecrafts fiction.
2006 – Avon publishes ‘Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon’ and ‘The Gates of the Necronomicon’ by “Simon”.
2006 – Jeffrey Wyndham self-publishes ‘The Dwale of Avagddu’ a Necronomicon pastiche that combines the mythos of HP Lovecraft with the mythology of the ancient Celts.
2007 – Edition Roter Drache publishes Asenath Mason’s ‘Necronomicon Gnosis: A Practical Introduction’. The book combines Lovecraft’s mythos with ideas from the Left Hand Path and Chaos Magic.
2007 – Loge Magan (of the Dragon Rouge esoteric order) publishes Asenath Mason’s ‘Exploring the Unnameable: Wandering in the Labyrinths of Zin’, a pamphlet containing cliphotic pathworkings using imagery from Lovecraft’s fiction.
2007 – Ixaxaar Occult Literature publishes ‘Azathoth’, the third in their series of short occult monographs. This pamphlet contains several essays discussing Lovecraft’s mythos from Left Hand Path perspectives.
2007 – Venger Satanis (Darrick Dishaw) self-publishes his ‘Cthulhu Cult’. The book contains an esoteric system combining Satanism, Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way and Chaos Magic with the mythos of HP Lovecraft. He also establishes The Cthulhu Cult, an occult order based on his teachings.
2007 – ‘The Necronomicon Tarot’ is released with cards painted by Anne Stokes and booklet written by Donald Tyson.
2007 – BC Klutts self-publishes a Necronomicon containing the text from the on-line Necronomicon Project.
2008 – Llewellyn publishes Donald Tyson’s ‘The Grimoire of the Necronomicon’ a companion book to his earlier work.
2009 – Venger Satanis releases his second book, ‘Liber A:O’, where he further develops his mixture of Satanism, the Fourth Way, Chaos Magic and Lovecraft’s mythos.
2009 – Joshua Free (a.k.a. Merlyn Stone) publishes his “Mardukite” Necronomicon. This version of the dreaded tome is an attempt to take the Simon book closer to the Babylonian sources. It is also influenced by Zecharia Sitchin’s ancient astronaut interpretation of the ancient Babylonian mythology. The author has since made publishing Necronomicon-related books into a veritable cottage industry of his own, and the number of titles are too numerous to tally.
2010 – ‘The Atlantean Necronomicon: Veils of Negative Existence’ is published by Messiah-el Bey / Warlock Asylum. This version combines Simon’s Necronomicon with Doreal’s theosophy-influenced ‘Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean’. The book teaches that the inner mysteries of the Necronomicon consists of a cliphotic initiation that will spiritually transform the practitioner into an Old One.
2010 - 'The 13 Gates of the Necronomicon: A Workbook of Magic' by Donald Tyson, further developing his series.
2010 - 'The Dream World of H.P. Lovecraft: His Life, His Demons, His Universe' by Donald Tyson, a biography on HPL from an occult perspective.
2013 - 'The Dark Lord: H. P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic' by Peter Levenda (who is believed to be the author behind the pseudonym "Simon"). Levenda makes an interpretation of Grant's Typhonian Trilogies that emphasizes the connection to HPL and the "Simon" edition of the Necronomicon. His version of the Typhonian current comes quite close to the Setian doctrine of the Temple of Set.
2014 - 'When The Stars Are Right: Towards an authentic R'lyehian spirituality' by Scott R Jones tries to discard the elaborate occultism and explore a Lovecraft-influenced spirituality based on art and mysticism.
2014 - 'Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos' by Bobby Derie includes a section on sex in Lovecraftian occultism.
2015 - 'H. P. Lovecraft and the Black Magickal Tradition: The Master of Horror's Influence on Modern Occultism' by John Steadman analyses Lovecrafts fiction and Lovecraftian occultism from an esoteric perspective.
2015 - 'The Star of Hastur: Liber DCLXI K'n-Yan' by Karl Stone. Influenced by the work of Kenneth Grant and Michael Bertiaux.
2016 - 'Echoes from the Primal Grimoire' by Richard Ward. Examines the influence of HP Lovecraft on the occult opus of Kenneth Grant in the light of quantum physics.
2016 - 'The Faceless God' by Tomas Vicente. Explores connections between Osiris in his netherworld aspect, Anubis, and the Black Man of the European witches' sabbath and Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep.
2017 - 'The Necronomicon : The Book of the Dead' by Karl Stone. Further into the depths of Da'ath.
2018 - 'Dreaming Thelema of Kenneth Grant and H. P. Lovecraft' by Oliver St. John.
2019 - 'Infernal Geometry and the Left-Hand Path: The Magical System of the Nine Angles' by Toby Chappell. Explores how the system of "angular magic" has been influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos of HP Lovecraft.
