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"H.R. GIGER'S NECRONOMICON: A startling milestone on the darkly lit road once traveled by the likes of Bosch, Brueghel, Lovecraft, Poe and Kafka. Giger's remarkable book of the dead gives us some of the most powerful images ever an artist drew from the well of the imagination.

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The Shaft pictures, which I began to produce around 1966, have their origin in my dreams I was sleeping badly at the time and was pursued by a series of nightmares. Read the first page

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3.0 out of 5 stars mediocrity and genius, May 20 2004

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Avant-Captain_Nemo (Aboard my black outlaw submarine cruising through the sewers in a city near you.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: H. R. Giger's Necronomicon (Hardcover)

Mr. Giger did the cover for Emerson, Lake and Palmer's great albumn "Brain Salad Surgery" and that central image of a kind of "Lilith of the future" is both an emblem and a counter-emblem of his whole work. One also thinks of the great creature from the movie "Alien" blasphemously beautiful in all of its dehumanized phallic grandeur. "H.R. Giger's Necronomicon" could be regarded as his Sistine Chapel, the focus of all his work, its origin and its summation. For many years now I have felt that Mr. Giger's work is full of both mediocrity and genius. In some odd way it is an exact fusion of the two. (...)I look at all of those devils and distances of depravity and I am filled with a kind of calm. His work comforts me - actually - in the way that the work of Norman Rockwell comforts and assures so many others. Why not? Edgar Allan Poe was also an absurd blend of mediocrity and genius. As a technician Mr. Giger is merely competent. But the skulls the heads and the industry add up to a world mildly beautiful, mildly ugly but stimulating as a kind of Picasso's less significant rebellious cousin. Definitely worth the look.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Twisted, Mar 18 2004

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Donny Boudreau (Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: H. R. Giger's Necronomicon (Hardcover)

In my opinion, H.R Giger is the most twisted and sick artist that I have ever seen, in a good way though. His work is only something that you would see in your wildest and most horrific nightmares.
Giger has been a great inspiration on my artwork and I reccomend all of his books to anyone who has a strong stomach and loves any work having to do with death and HELL.His website is a very good spot to check out his work at www.hrgiger.com or at www.darkworlds.com . Good luck with the Books and hope you like them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Most Incredible, Oct 13 2003

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john (U+S+A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: H. R. Giger's Necronomicon (Hardcover)

This is the Holy Grail of Giger. That's all there is to it. I found this book, immediatly bought it, and was captivated. I have been a Giger fan for a few years, and am also a artist of the Biomechanichal style, so this book has been a great inspiration. People, when i show them this book, often talk about the "messages..ooh! a pentagram! he must be wiccast" but that is not the case. he is, like i am, juts drawing what needs to be in the picture. I reccomend this book for any Giger fan, or a fan of great art in general.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Grotesque and Beautiful
Giger's art inspires in me feelings of religious awe each time I enter his world of hellish mutilated misshapen figures writhing in an erotic dance among alien machines drawing me... Read more

Published on Jun 25 2003 by Crowsdreamofdeth

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Mythos artwork
Don't believe the hype - it's all REAL, and here's the artist to do it justice.

Published on May 22 2003 by Blackwing Bear