)The book stresses the importance of preserving Lovecraft's original intention in his writings as opposed to those who wrote inspired by his works. It gives several examples of how people have 'gotten things wrong' so to speak.
At the same time it goes on to talk about the 'battle of good and evil' in Lovecraft's work, which was more of Derleth (and others) idea pushed into the mythos. The book is very contradictory.. that is just a small example.
Also numerous passages in the introduction try overly hard to make sure that if someone tries to dispute something, they will be covered.
For example: They make it clear that the original manuscript is not held by them (not even a copy?) so no one can ask to see it.
They say how those who translated parts for them have vanished. And that those who supplied them with supplemental data are either unknown, missing, went insane, died, or ran off somewhere never to be contacted again.
The book even says that the translations might possibly be seen as being 'modernized' by certain translators - obviously an attempt to automatically answer any questions dealing with language (and writing style) discrepancies.
Now I don't know how many people think the Simon Necronomicon is the real deal, but I would venture to say these things:
1) They do not know much about Lovecraft
2) They just skipped the introduction
:smt005
