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Wow, this takes me back to my undergrad days of dabbling in the occult. If memory serves, an actual copy of Dictionnaire Infernal is ridiculously difficult, an
by AdmiralAsshat 9y ago
Wow, this takes me back to my undergrad days of dabbling in the occult.
If memory serves, an actual copy of Dictionnaire Infernal is ridiculously difficult, and expensive, to track down.
If all you want are the illustrations, you can find them more easily by grabbing a copy of "The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon" for about $20 or so on Amazon.
- eriknstr 9y agoMaybe the Internet Archive has a digital copy of Dictionnaire Infernal?
- bitexploder 9y agoThe way you do this is you say, "I doubt you can even find copies on the Internet." Then someone is going to take up your challenge :)
- 13of40 9y agohttps://books.google.com/books?id=bjESAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dictionnaire+Infernal&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUhoil84bVAhUO82MKHVHKBLAQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Dictionnaire%20Infernal&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=bjESAAAAYAAJ&printsec=fron... Now we just need to find a vendor who will bind an on-demand copy in human skin. Ahem: "I doubt you can even find that on the Internet."
- mirimir 9y agoMaybe now you can ;)
- _xgw 9y agoIt has, it's even linked to in the article: https://archive.org/details/dictionnaireinfe00coll_1 https://archive.org/details/dictionnaireinfe00coll_1
- hammock 9y ago>an actual copy of Dictionnaire Infernal is ridiculously difficult, and expensive, to track down ? https://www.amazon.com/Dictionnaire-infernal-French-Jacques-Auguste/dp/1539420280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499964876&sr=8-1&keywords=Dictionnaire+Infernal https://www.amazon.com/Dictionnaire-infernal-French-Jacques-...
- tyingq 9y agoIf you select the hardcover, they are close to $300 usd. Perhaps that is what was meant?
- camiller 9y agoEnglish version in imitation mammal skin $175. https://www.amazon.com/Infernal-Dictionary-Deluxe-Collin-Plancy/dp/0997074515/ref=pd_sbs_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0997074515&pd_rd_r=WY8Y7XB2TZBNZ2M372X7&pd_rd_w=V94vN&pd_rd_wg=vcCBT&psc=1&refRID=WY8Y7XB2TZBNZ2M372X7 https://www.amazon.com/Infernal-Dictionary-Deluxe-Collin-Pla...
- jerrylives 9y agoThat's not the same thing. It has new (terrible) illustrations
- MrZongle2 9y agoIf memory serves, an actual copy of Dictionnaire Infernal is ridiculously difficult, and expensive, to track down. You think that's hard, try finding an early edition of the Necronomicon. The cheap paperbacks are a poor substitution, and the Kindle version is rife with errors.
- maze-le 9y agoI wonder how much Lovecraft was influenced by writings like this one. Creatures like 'Tsatoghua' and 'Azathoth' might be inspired by the depiction of 'Bael', 'Adramelech' and the likes. Oh and by the way, with 'Necronomicon' you mean this this one [0]? I have one as paperback (I didn't even realized Hardcovers existed, up until now). Giger was always one of my favourite painters. I bet in a couple of decades, people will wonder about his images as we are wondering about Plancys Dictionnaire now. [0]: https://www.amazon.com/H-R-Gigers-Necronomicon-Giger/dp/0962344729 https://www.amazon.com/H-R-Gigers-Necronomicon-Giger/dp/0962...
- djur 9y agoLovecraft was more directly influenced by writers like Robert Chambers ("The King In Yellow") and Ambrose Bierce ("An Inhabitant Of Carcosa"). And the beings he describe tend to be completely alien, unlike the natural chimeras in the Dictionnaire Infernal and similar works. Even the tentacles and such which are familiar on Lovecraftian horrors tend to be described in ways that distinguish them from the familiar appendages of squids and such.