I find it very difficult to review this book, as it’s the kind of thing only
an obsessive would need to have - put simply, this hefty tome tracks EVERY
SINGLE INSTANCE a particular proper noun is used in any Cthulhu Mythos
story, EVER. So you’d like to know when the first appearance of Kadath is?
There it is. How many times did the Crawling Hideous Maw appear in Ramsey
stories? There it is.

Not only does this book exhaustively detail the proper nouns, it is also a
complete bibliography: so if you’ve been missing the one Cthulhu story by
Ernest Hemingway that would complete your collection, the Old Man and the
Shivering Tentacled Old One, now you can find out all the details you would
ever need about the work.

I love Delta Green and Call of Cthulhu, and I can understand the need for a
Necronomicon of this sort to exist. I will personally never need it: I can
not imagine that my paltry knowledge of the greater darkness of Lovecraft
would ever require this dense Bible. So this is the first Pagan Publishing
I am recommending you do not buy, unless you are a serious Cthulhu Mythos
researcher.

You see, this book isn’t for gamers who play Call of Cthulhu on weekends and
use pregenerated scenarios. It isn’t even for dilletantes like myself.
It’s for people who would drive 8 hours to see a live performance of “The
King in Yellow”. It’s hardcore.

The Verdict

This isn’t a contest, where all the “cool kids” own the book - if you need
the Concordance, you’ll know it. For example, I “need” two or three
different atlases of maps for medieval France…most people would not. If
you are the kind of archivist who needs a fully comprehensive, indexed tool
to the Mythos, this is it–the print quality is superb, the binding is
sturdy and it covers everything. If you need it, you’ll know instantly that
it is everything you’ve hoped for.