Dear Mr. Lovecraft:
    Many thanks for the exceedingly interesting letter! You shouldn't have gone to such trouble just to
satisfy my curiosity, but I greatly appreciate the length to which you went.
    You didn't exactly disillusion me about the mythical books. I have to laugh at myself when I think
of all the libraries I've visited in my futile search for the Necronomicon. Besides, to be honest, it gave me a feeling of self - importance to be asking for a book that librarians had never heard of!
    Anyway, they sent me to the right sections; and I found a number of other books about morbid
psychology, spiritualism, vampirism (I remember only one title: The Vampire in Europe), witchcraft, etc.-- plenty on witchcraft but nothing on Lovecraft!
    You've probably noticed that many authors mention "Alhazred's Necronomicon" in their own
stories. Some Weird Tales reader have even suggested having parts of it reprinted in the magazine's reprint section!
    Incidentally, you needn't call me "Mr." Conover. I'm only a young boy. Of course, since you are my elder, it is only proper that I should call you "Mr. Lovecraft".

Lovecraft's response:

    "I feel guilty in having sent you on so many wild - goose -  chases for the Necronomicon...but I'm
glad that the quest has served to introduce you to some less mythical volumes of spectral interest. Wontague Summons' vampire books are splendid source material - very scholarly despite their learned author's naive belief in the occult."

Lovecraft's later letter:
    I'll only recite one part: "Since your inquiry, two more persons have asked about the Mad Arab and his hellish and forbidden tome...so that I fear I've become a wholesale hoaxer despite my innocent intentions. However, I continue to disillusion all enquirers very conscientiously."

    So as you can see that the book and the Mad Arab are both made up by Lovecraft. In the same book, he further delves into the history of the Necronomicon which I will later post up on this web page.

    One more thing to mention is that even the Encyclopedia or Witches and Witchcraft (which is highly accurate) even denies of the existence of a real manuscript entitled - Necronomicon. It only talks about two false publications.

    Lastly, the book by Avon publishing is written with the beliefs of Alestair Crowley.  The Demon, Perdurabo, that they give thanks to is an incarnation of Crowley. This proves the falseness of the book because Crowley and Lovecraft NEVER WORKED WITH EACH OTHER.