The Necronomicon. For centuries, scholars of the occult have sought out the darkly fabled tome, hoping to gain insight into the secret workings of the universe—or simple brute power. What the book offered them instead was, more often than not, madness and devastation. Under the guidance of Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., The Leaves of a Necronomicon traces the impact of a single copy of the mysterious work on its owners and those around them as it passes from hand to hand across the decades. The history is told in braided novel form, with chapters contributed by a gathering of outstanding horror and dark fantasy authors, including S.P. Miskowski, Michael Cisco, Damien Angelica Walters, Nick Mamatas, Anna Tambour, Jeffrey Thomas, and more.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: "From Hand to Hand . . . to Hand—", by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
• Chapter 1: "The Bookmaker", by Nate Pedersen
• Chapter 2: "The Collector of Rare Editions", by Donald Tyson
• Chapter 3: "Down to a Sunless Sea", by Allyson Bird
• Chapter 4: "Dawn Watch", by Daniel Mills
• Chapter 5: "Eyes of Flame", by Cody Goodfellow
• Chapter 6: "In Waves", by S.P. Miskowski
• Chapter 7: "Horrors Worse than Hell", by Robert M. Price
• Chapter 8: "Laying the Words", by Don Webb
• Interlude: "Mysteries Don’t Sleep", by Anna Tambour
• Chapter 9: "The Sun Saw", by Mike Allen
• Chapter 10: "American Ghost", by John Claude Smith
• Chapter 11: "Flickering I Roam", by E. Catherine Tobler
• Chapter 12: "Sewn into Pieces", Stitched into Place, by Damien Angelica Walters
• Chapter 13: "11:00", by Nikki Guerlain
• Chapter 14: "Void Kiss", by Michael Cisco
• Chapter 15: "Liquor City", by Nick Mamatas
• Interlude: "Letter Found Sitting Atop a Rare Old Handbook of Dark Portent", by Anna Tambour
• Chapter 16: "Too Many Pages", by Simon Strantzas
• Chapter 17: "And I Watered It in Fears", by Sunny Moraine
• Chapter 18: "Miles and Katherine at the Crimson", by Michael Griffin
• Chapter 19: "Passages for the Dying and the Dead", by S.P. Miskowski
• Chapter 20: "Ménage à Trois", by Ross E. Lockhart
• Chapter 21: "The Persuader", by Jeffrey Thomas