Product Description

First published in a very limited edition in 1994, and reprinted only once since, The Pseudonomicon has been extremely difficult to find. By special arrangement with Dagon Productions, we have brought it back in this revised and expanded edition. Of The Pseudonomicon the author says:

"Disclaimer: It is generally agreed by experienced magicians that working with the Cthulhu Mythos is dangerous due to the high risk of obsession, personality disintegration or infestation by parasitic shells. Whilst giving this opinion due consideration, I have decided to release this material since, before the throne of Azathoth, questions of who is sane and who is mad become inconsequential."

and:

"Each god brings its own madness. To know the god---to be accepted by it, to feel its mysteries---well you have to let that madness wash over you, and through you. This isn't in the books of magic. Why? For one thing, it's all too easily forgotten, and for an other, you have to find it out for yourself. And for those who would sanitize magic, whitening out the wildness with explanations borrowed from pop psychology or science---well, madness is something that we still fear---the great taboo. So why did I choose Cthulhu---High Priest of the Great Old Ones---lying dreaming "death's dream" in the sunken city, forgotten through layers of time and water? It sounds so simple to say that I merely heard his "call"---but I did. Gods do not, generally, have a lot to say, but what they do say, is worth listening to."

With a new Introduction and a completely new, and greatly expanded section on Banishing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #448817 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Review
A springboard from which to explore the realms of insanity and the Cthulhu Mythos. -- Talking Stick

Deeply fascinating stuff, and worth a dozen of the professedly 'genuine' Necronomicons on the market. -- Fortean Times

Phil opens a slimy door back into a world where awe still abides, and Cthulhu lies, not dead, but dreaming. -- White Dragon magazine

About the Author
Phil Hine is a former editor of the internationally acclaimed magazine Chaos International. He has facilitated workshops and seminars on modern magical practice in America and Europe and contributes regularly to a wide range of occult journals. He is also the author of Condensed Chaos & Prime Chaos.

Customer Reviews

Great book - not a satire
The Pseudonomicon by Phil Hine is a great and interesting book attempting to combine Cthulhu with chaos magick. The reviewer who took this book as satire doesn't seem to be familiar with the writer's other works (such as Prime Chaos), or even to have read the book.

Hine knows full well that the Cthulhu Mythos is purely fictional (and has been very caustic about the various fake Necronomicons that have been published). But, as he points out, just because Cthulhu doesn't exist doesn't mean that you can't use the Mythos as your reference point for magick.

Read up on what chaos magick is all about and it'll make more sense. Yes the book is funny, but it's certainly NOT mocking the idea of magick. Hine is a practitioner of some note. Taking it seriously is beside the point. Take it humourously, and use it anyway.

A joy to read
The irrepressible Phil Hine does it again. Don't be fooled into applying ordinary categories to this author. Satyrical or serious, both and neither. Naive New-Age relativism, hardly.

I had the pleasure of getting to know him a little in the early 1990s. Phil will challenge you to drop the crutches of your current belief system, and stand on your own. If you can knowingly work with a fictitious system, you will come to see how much of your ordinary perception is likewise a fiction. Assumptions, preconceptions, prejudices, all become suspect.

All you are left with is the diamond hard core of reality.

Sweyn Plowright
author of
The Rune Primer

not just a fantasy.
the Cthulhu Mythos IS real !!!

i bought and read this book years ago. i may not have agreed with everything Hine wrote (personal aesthetics will, of course, differ), but it was fruitful for the next steps i would take... this being the Cult of Cthulhu. just as inspirational as LaVey's Satanic Bible.

yes, the Pseudonomicon became the slimy foundation for our bible, Cthulhu Cult. if you enjoy Lovecraft's FACTUAL cosmology, then definitely take a look. the simon Necronomicon can go to Hell by comaprison.


Venger As'Nas Satanis
Cult of Cthulhu High Priest