Um, in one of my books, I even talked about it in detail in one of my novels, in, uh, The Lovecraft Code.
I never read occult fiction, you know? So Lovecraft meant nothing to me. You know, it's a word that was
in the background somewhere, but I never read any short stories by Lovecraft. It was not my thing. You know,
odyssey of figuring out what this book is. You know, is it something that Lovecraft talked about?
Is it just a name? You know, and it has no relationship at all to Lovecraft. I had to
learn about Lovecraft. I knew nothing about it. So I had to learn about it. And I talked to my friend,
is. And so Larry Barnes went absolutely nuts because he was a total cartoon freak and a Lovecraft freak and
Oh, okay. Well, if you're a Lovecraft person, you have some ideas as to what must be in it.
That's what it is. And that's, and what's, but we didn't know what it was. What's the Lovecraft
writes about it or? Well, Lovecraft writes that it's a dangerous book that even possessing it
the Lovecraft scholars will say, no, that's not it. It's not, it's not Lovecraftian enough. Okay. I
Uh, we make the point in the book that, uh, uh, Lovecraft's famous arch weird connector between
about it. Lovecraft heard the name, you know, and crafted his idea of what the Necronomicon should be
there that says that screams Lovecraft. But there are pieces that do, you know?