SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

This area of the Orne Library, the famous Special Collections area, holds unique manuscripts dealing with the occult and Cthulhu Mythos. Please visit the area entitled Necronomicon for a synopses of the book.         -Ralph De La Portilla

All these books are the original manuscript hand - written unless the entry specifies that it was published.

Occult Books


Corpus Hermeticorm
LATIN

author: unknown
c. 100A.D.

Hitherto Unknown Protozoa of Neglected, Faraway, or Unknown Lands
ENGLISH
author: Dr. Hermester Barrington
pub. 1885
Vol. 1: Protozoa of Damned Rivers, Reservoires, and Artificial Lakes of the Catskills.
Vol. 2: Fossil Protozoa of the Ediacaran Strata
Vol. 3: Protozoa Ecology of the Department of Macondo, Columbia
Vol. 4: Protozoa of Typee and Devil's Reef
Vol. 5: Protozoa of Maple White Land, El Dorado and Roirama
Vol. 6: Protozoa of Quijotania
Vol. 7: Protozoa of the Leng Plateau

Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer of Witches")
LATIN

authors: Jacob Sprenger
Heirnrich Kramertrans
pub. 1486

Der Hexenhammer
GERMAN translation of Malleus Maleficarum

pub. 1906

Such Sites
ENGLISH

author: Dr. Kyle Link Storm
written: 1228, pub. 1930

The Wonders of the Invisible World
ENGLISH

author: Cotton Mather
written 1692, pub. 1866

The Voynich Manuscript
UNREADABLE

author: unknown
c. 1500 A.D.

The Zohar
HEBREW

author: Moses de Leon
written 1280, pub. 1678

Mythos Tomes


Book of Eibon
ENGLISH

author: Hyperborean Wizard Eibon
c. 15 century

Cthulhu in the Necronomicon
ENGLISH

author: Dr. Laban Shrewbury
written 1915

Les Cultes des Goules
FRENCH

authors: Francois - Honore Balfour and Comte d'Erlette
c. 1702

Dhol Chants
CHINESE

author: unknown
c. 1650

The Eltdown Shards
ENGLISH

author: Arthur Winters - Hall
written: 1917

An Investigation into the Myth Patterns of Latter-Day Primives with Essential Reference to the R'Lyeh Text
ENGLISH

author: Dr. Laban Shrewsbury
c. 1910's

The King in Yellow
ENGLISH

author: unknown
c. 1895

Necronomicon Ed. 1
LATIN

Olaus Wormius
1228 A.D.

Necronomicon Ed. 2
LATIN

Olaus Wormius
1228 A.D.

Necronomicon Ed. 3
LATIN

Olaus Wormius
1228 A.D.

Necronomicon Found
ENGLISH
author: Dr. Kyle Link Storm
written: 1926
The Ponape Scripture
ENGLISH

author: unknown.
1734

R'lyeh Text (9 Stone Tablets)
Unknown but similar to early CHINESE

author: unknown
c. 13,000 B.C.

The Seven Cryptical Books fo Hsan
Early CHINESE

author: unknown
c. 100 A.D.

Unaussprechlichen Kulten ("Nameless Cults")
GERMEN

 

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