Help! Missing text in Chaosium's Necronomicon?
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:53 pm
I've just acquired Chaosium's "Call Of Cthulhu Fiction" version of "The Necronomicon," 2nd ed., expanded & revised (item number 6034). I just noticed something that bothers me about the ending of the section "The 'Necronomicon': The Dee Translation" by Lin Carter. Namely...there is no ending! It ends in mid-paragraph at the bottom of the page with no punctuation or ending marks or anything, with:
...in Sarnath as in Ephiroth, in the gulf of Y'qaa as in the deep of Ravormos, in Shaggai as in Yaddith, in Leng as in the vale of Pnath, in the World of the Seven Suns as in Zoth, in Lomar as in Mhu Thulan, in Irem the City of Pillars as in Alaozar where the
The very next page is the introduction to the next chapter, Pelton's "The Sussex Manuscript."
I looked at the intro to the section in question and it mentions nothing about the text being left off in midsentence. The page numbers are correct (the "error" is on page 298), none are missing.
I remember at one point browsing the "boo-boo books" section at Chaosium's site and I don't recall coming across mention of this; I figured such things would be fixed by now anyway. I only just received the book through Amazon today.
Anyone know anything about this? Or where I might find the missing text (if there is any) to fill it in myself? (I'm not averse to scribbling it in in pencil.)
My apologies if it's in fact intact as is, I have no way of knowing.
Have contacted Chaosium's printing error e-mail address to inform them, and posted this request in a different forum where another user informed me there is in fact missing text which they could supply, but haven't heard back yet.
Surely somebody could type up the missing lines for me...?
...in Sarnath as in Ephiroth, in the gulf of Y'qaa as in the deep of Ravormos, in Shaggai as in Yaddith, in Leng as in the vale of Pnath, in the World of the Seven Suns as in Zoth, in Lomar as in Mhu Thulan, in Irem the City of Pillars as in Alaozar where the
The very next page is the introduction to the next chapter, Pelton's "The Sussex Manuscript."
I looked at the intro to the section in question and it mentions nothing about the text being left off in midsentence. The page numbers are correct (the "error" is on page 298), none are missing.
I remember at one point browsing the "boo-boo books" section at Chaosium's site and I don't recall coming across mention of this; I figured such things would be fixed by now anyway. I only just received the book through Amazon today.
Anyone know anything about this? Or where I might find the missing text (if there is any) to fill it in myself? (I'm not averse to scribbling it in in pencil.)
My apologies if it's in fact intact as is, I have no way of knowing.
Have contacted Chaosium's printing error e-mail address to inform them, and posted this request in a different forum where another user informed me there is in fact missing text which they could supply, but haven't heard back yet.
Surely somebody could type up the missing lines for me...?