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This year's Halloween show expands to a full five hours of fun, creepiness, and horror!
Here's the breakdown:7-7:15: The Island Messenger Spooky Edition
7:15-8:00: Witch-themed Halloween Music
8:00 - 9:00: A locally produced Halloween radio play:
A local theater group, Kodiak Stage Craft, have recreated a 1940's Radio Drama called That Thing in the Window written by Lucille Fletcher. This suspenseful auditory experience features local voice actors and original music compositions.
Another chance to listen live on KODK 90.1 @ 9pm
9:00 - 11:00: Spooky, horrific, creepy, fun Halloween music including dark ambient sounds from The Necronomicon Pages.
11:00 - Midnight: This American Life Halloween Special
Does Abdul Alhazred’s cursed Necronomicon, the best known of the 'forbidden books', really exist?
Is it really part of the so-called "pseudobiblia" (books that do not
exist) or did Howard Phillips Lovecraft, (the "Loner of Providence")
base the Mythos of Cthulhu and all the vast, incredible Pantheon that
pervades his fascinating and disturbing literary adventures?
In February 1937, in a letter written to his friend Harry O. Fisher,
Lovecarft wrote, ‘The term Necronomicon (from the Greek "nekros",
corpse; "nòmos", law; "eikon", image, i.e. "Image, or Representation, of
the Laws of the Dead") came to my mind during a dream, including the
etymology “.
Despite this, the belief that the Necronomicon is a real book persist.
In reality, of course there are many magical books that have vanished
and that are very sought after. Some do resurface. In Renaissance
Florence the translations of Plato were put on hold when the legendary
writings of Hermes Trismegistus were rediscovered, and their translation
was deemed more important. They actually weren’t lost; they just
weren’t in Europe. We can also add The Steganographia of Trithemius to
the list, a book that was deemed blasphemous, black magic and in
reality, turned out to be a canon of
cryptographical techniques. We also have the very strange and
compelling Voynich Manuscript, that still hasn’t been decoded but
attempts to do so have driven people insane, allegedly. It seems that
magical works need translating from either dead languages or codes and
that the world of the dark arts is surrounded in mystery, secrets and
blasphemy as underground esoteric groups attempted to avoid the wrath of
persecution.
The Necronomicon, like the books mentioned above, has its own legends
and the waters have been thoroughly muddied through hoax, creative
invention and rumour. My first understanding of it was that Lovecraft’s
grandfather was an occultist who had a vast library of occult books that
young Howard used to engulf himself in, reading all of them with
fervour and becoming a black magician. The Necronomicon was amongst this
library as were many of the books that he mentions throughout his
writing. By creating the Necronomicon and alluding to the contents
without revealing them, has he not invented something that carries
weight and mystery to such an extent that readers believe it to be real,
because the other books he describes are? And there we have it. The
mad, Arab Abdul Alhazred was Lovecraft himself. The Necronomicon does
not exist and yet it does and is living and breathing. Long may it
continue in the writings, movies, games, comics, music and all future
media to come. This is precisely what Lovecraft wanted.
In this collection of music pieces and soundscapes, Eighth Tower Records
and the musicians involved tribute their homage to the Necronomicon and
expand the enigmatic mythology with the same passion for the subject as
all the other ‘Mythos’ creators. What’s more, for your perusal, the
artwork is beautifully designed by Mr Zarono. credits
Our thanks to Raffaele Pezzella for providing FreeForm with a promotional copy of this release.
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