at the age of five. In those days I used to dress up in a turban, burnt-cork a beard on my face, and call myself by the synthetic name (Allah only knows where I got it!) of Abdul Alhazred—which I later revived, in memory of old times, to confer on the hypothetical author of the hypothetical Necronomicon! Letter To Robert E. Howard (October 4, 1930) en Quotes Regarding the Necronomicon from Lovecraft’s Letters
Lovecraft, Howard Phillips (1938). History of the Necronomicon(en inglés). «In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Al Azif) was written, and of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. He is said by Ebn Khallikan (12th cent. biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses.»
