Appeal for Help: Magic Tomes
I'm working on a little web project that is going to be really fun, but I need titles of magical tomes, both real, historical ones, and invented ones. I'd like to include magical tomes that some of you may have used in your fiction as easter eggs. Just need the titles. Please leave me a comment with the titles and I will work them into the site. Sorry that I am being a bit mysterious, but I want this project to be fun for you too when it's done and if I tell you about it now, then it won't be as exciting.
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I think some in the post directly above mine are copyrighted by Lyllwyn- but I could be wrong :)
Anyway here some fictitious ones:
The Booke of Unwinding Paths
Labyrinth Magic
Maeser's Guide to Unspoken Realms
The Orange Booke of Aalise
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The Enneads by Plotinus
Chaldean Oracles by Julianus the Theurgist
The Corpus Hermetica by Hermes Trismegistus
Mysteries of the Sacred by Iamblicus
Theosophy by Severus of Antioch
The Sibylline Oracles
The Golden Flowers by Appollonius of Tyana
The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King, trans. by Aleister Crowley
The Key of Solomon The King, trans by S. L. MacGregor Mathers
Sefer Yetzirah by (supposedly) the Biblical Abraham
Sefer Ha-Bahir by various first century Mishraic sages
(All of the above have at least some basis in real life, either as philosophical texts or due to their supposed authors' importance.)
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For fictional don't forget the Mythos:
Robert Bloch: Cultes des Goules; De Vermis Mysteriis
Ramsey Campbell: Revelations of Glaaki
Lin Carter: Ponape Scripture, Zanthu Tablets
August Derleth: Celaeno Fragments, R'lyeh Text
Robert E. Howard: Unaussprechlichen Kulten
H. P. Lovecraft: Dhol Chants, Necronomicon, Pnakotic Manuscripts, Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan
Brian Lumley: Cthäat Aquadingen, G'harne Fragments
Clark Ashton Smith: Book of Eibon
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The Necronomicon, of course. Used in the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
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I forget the exact name of it, but there's a magical tome in Chris Willrich's Persimmon Gaunt/Imago Bone stories in F&SF ("Penultima Thule" etc.). It's called Mashed Rags Bound in Dead Cow or something like that.
Also, I think there's one in one of the Matt Hughes Henghis Hapthorn stories, but I don't recall if it has a name.
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"Liber Loagaeth," and "De Heptarchia Mystica," by Dee.
"Steganographia," by Trithemius
"Dictionaire Infernal," by de Plancy
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Khazar Dictionary, or Lexicon Cosri (from the novel Dictionary of the Khazars, by Milorad Pavich)
Encyclopedia of Tlon (from the story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," by Jorge Luis Borges)
Voynich Manuscript (mysterious real-world book sometimes used as a mystical tome in fiction -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript)
Codex Unicornis and the Magnalucius Notebooks (fictional manuscripts in the art/puzzle books Unicornis and Quest: In Search of the Dragontooth, written and illustrated by Michael Green)
The Workbook and Journal of Gerald McIntyre (from "Green Magic," by Jack Vance)
Have fun with the project! And JJA, thanks for linking to this, and for mentioning my own "book" (you got the title right.)
Malleus Maleficarum
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
Disquisitionum magicarum
Magick in Theory and Practice
The Waye of the Wyrde
(It sounds like fun, Jer!)