The “mad poet” Abdul Alhazred created this book while worshiping the deity Yog-Sothoth. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this “dreaded” grimoire, an English translation of which is read by Wilbur Whateley in “The Dunwich Horror.” This book describes gods called the Old Ones.
ANSWER: Necronomicon [or the Book of the Dead; or the Kitab al-Azif]
[10e] The Necronomicon contains the mythos of this author of “At the Mountains of Madness.” Victor D. LaValle’s novella The Ballad of Black Tom subverts the racism of this creator of Cthulhu (“kuh-THOO-loo”).
ANSWER: H. P. Lovecraft [or Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
[10m] Lovecraft based his Necronomicon on a Robert Chambers story about a play named for one of these people “in Yellow” that drives its reader to madness. A T.H. White tetralogy is titled for the “Once and Future” one of these people.
ANSWER: king [accept The King in Yellow; accept King Arthur; accept The Once and Future King; prompt on monarchs; prompt on rulers]
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