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| caption = Illustration from the original publication
| author = H.P. Lovecraft
| central theme = the lengths people go to feed the evil
| elevator pitch = The creepy and weird child of an occultist family keeps taking care of the horror that lives in his house; when he decides to go for a book he thinks can assist on his mission things spiral out of control
| genre = Horror
| franchise = Cthulhu Mythos
| preceded by = The Colour Out of Space
| followed by = The Whisperer in Darkness
| publication date = April 1929
| source page exists =
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It was around this point that Wilbur began to search for an unabridged copy of [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|the Necronomicon]]. He had learned all of what he knew from his grandfather's library, but his copy of that book was a shortened English version, which he apparently found insufficient. He discovered that nearby Miskatonic University has a copy, but the librarian refused to loan it out to him. {{spoiler|So he broke in to steal it, only to be killed by a guard dog}}. And that's when things get ''really'' weird.
One of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s most famous stories,
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