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Saducismus Triumphatus (Joseph Glanvil, 1681)
Daemonolatreja of Remigius (Lyons 1595)
Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred (Olaus Wormius' Latin translation) Lost, presumed stolen (see also Necronomicon fakes)
Book of Eibon (fragmentary) Curently undergoing restoration
Unaussprechlichen Kulten of von Junzt Not available to students or to the public
Die Seltsame Geschichte der Vampyre (Paul Bonnat, Gottleib Faust Erben, Leipzig, undated edition circa 1870)
"...dubious old books on forbidden secrets that were kept under lock and key in a vault at the university library." -- Dreams in the Witch House
"...the doctors were broad-minded, and even lent me their influence in obtaining the carefully sheltered copy of Alhazred's objectionable Necronomicon from the library of Miskatonic University."
"I dare quote only one paragraph, put into such English as I can make from the awkward Low Latin. 'The nethermost caverns,' wrote the mad Arab, 'are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their marvels are strange and terrific. Cursed the ground where dead thoughts live new and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. Wisely did Ibn Schacabao say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumour that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.'" -- The Festival