A Glimpse Into the Necronomicon

     Today's offering - poor choice of words - today's subject is another unearthed artifact from history's darkest pits. Discovered in an abandoned farmhouse near Greenwich, Massachusetts in 1937, this peculiar item was sold to a researcher from Miskatonic University for the bizarrely notable sum of three dollars and thirty-three cents. At first glance it appears to be part of an illustrated manuscript similar to those created by monastic orders throughout Europe during the First Millennium. Carbon dating indicates that this particular document dates to sometime around the 6th century AD; a more precise estimation has proven impossible as the exact composition of the parchment defies identification. Certain stylistic choices in the way the bizarre creatures were drawn point to a more recent origin but the compound used as pigmentation contains traces of both flora and fauna attributed to species believed extinct for more than a thousand years.

Document (believed to be from the Necronomicon) currently stored in the Miskatonic University Archives, Arkham, MA.

   
     The illustrations that appear on the page are obviously of no known earthly species and are likely (hopefully) the product of someone's very deeply disturbed imagination. There is no indication of their intended size and means of locomotion or if they are meant to represent aquatic, amphibious, or subterranean creatures (or an unlikely combination of all three).

Detail showing creatures that appear to be either wholly aquatic or amphibious in nature.

     Regardless of when this document was created, most researchers agree that it undoubtedly belongs to the fabled Necronomicon or is a part of some previously undiscovered companion work. If you are unwise... or simply curious... copies of the above pictured piece will soon be made available at Arcane Apparel as prints. Perhaps you will have better luck deciphering the message that the original author intended.