H.R. Giger's Necronomicon

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Hans Ruedi Giger ( / ˈ ɡ iː ɡ ər/ GHEE-gər; German: [ˈɡiːɡər]; 5 February 1940 – 12 May 2014) was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as " biomechanical". Giger later abandoned airbrush for pastels, markers and ink. He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for the visual design of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, and was responsible for creating the titular Alien itself. [1] His work is on permanent display at the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland. His style has been adapted to many forms of media, including album covers, furniture, tattoos and video games. Other copies, Lovecraft wrote, were kept by private individuals. Joseph Curwen, as noted, had a copy in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941). A version is held in Kingsport in " The Festival" ( 1925). The provenance of the copy read by the narrator of " The Nameless City" is unknown; a version is read by the protagonist in " The Hound" ( 1924). Stuart, Keith (13 May 2014). "HR Giger: artist whose biomechanical art had vast influence on game design". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014 . Retrieved 18 May 2014. Frank X. Owen, Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture, New York: St. Martin's, 2003, p. 269. The Necronomicon, also referred to as the Book of the Dead, or under a purported original Arabic title of Kitab al-Azif, is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1924 short story " The Hound", [1] written in 1922, though its purported author, the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, had been quoted a year earlier in Lovecraft's " The Nameless City". [2] Among other things, the work contains an account of the Old Ones, their history, and the means for summoning them.

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Giger lived and worked in Zürich with his second wife, Carmen Maria Scheifele Giger, who is the director of the H.R. Giger Museum. [10] Nor is it to be thought...that man is either the oldest or the last of earth's masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They had trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know Them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. Kadath in the cold waste hath known Them, and what man knows Kadath? The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraven, but who hath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign again.a b Clore, Dan (n.d.) [first published Fall 2001]. "The Lurker on the Threshold of Interpretation: Hoax Necronomicons and Paratextual Noise". Lovecraft Studies (42–43): 61–69. ISSN 0899-8361. Archived from the original on October 26, 2009 – via Yahoo! GeoCities. Notwithstanding his father’s wishes for him to pursue a profession as a chemist, Giger pursued architecture at Zurich’s School of Applied Arts. He began his work as an interior designer after graduation in the mid-1960s but soon opted to explore visual art full-time. He progressed from ink sketches and oil art pieces to utilizing an airbrush to make his art. By the early 1970s, news had spread about Giger’s skill.

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Of course, it was inevitable that a number of people would eventually see fit to produce books called Necronomicon to cash in on the gullibility of those who did not get this elaborate inside joke. During his brief life (from 1890 to 1937), he produced original short stories (as well as extensive revisions to the tales of other authors), novels, poetry, and essays and is now considered to be one of the most significant authors of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. He spent most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island, and he chose to set most of his stories there, or in imaginary towns and locales in Massachusetts. His writings were published in pulp magazines and amateur press publications, which meant that his readership was limited. August Derleth and Donald Wandrei started a publishing company called Arkham House, and after his death brought Lovecraft’s work to the attention of a far broader audience beginning with the release of The Outsider and Others in 1939. His writing is considered to be seminal for much succeeding fiction in the genres he explored, and it still exerts a powerful influence on artists and film-makers. Staff (13 May 2014). " 'Alien' creator H.R. Giger is dead". swissinfo. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018 . Retrieved 12 June 2018.HR Giger Museum". www.hrgigermuseum.com. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021 . Retrieved 14 March 2022. Jordans, Frank (13 May 2014). " 'Alien' artist H.R. Giger dies at 74". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014 . Retrieved 13 May 2014. Giger even drew the interest of one of the 20th century’s most influential artists: Salvador Dalí. Dalí was exposed to Giger’s art through a mutual acquaintance, Robert Venosa. Dalí was the one who brought Giger’s art to Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, who was looking to cast the renowned Surrealist in his grandiose production of the sci-fi novel Dune (1965). Jodorowsky invited Giger to assist with concept drawings for Dune, but when the project fell through, Giger’s excursion into the realm of the film was put on hold.