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Pratchett and Gaiman
Decaf Silicon Started conversation Feb 3, 2003
Fiction / comics author Neil Gaiman (and to some extent his colleague Terry Pratchett) satirized the Necronomicon with the Necrotelecomnicon, or (in dog Latin) Phone Book of the Dead. I believe the reference is made in Gaiman and Pratchett's *Good Omens*. Pratchett refers to the joke in one of his Discworld book acknowledgments, and he later uses *Librum Paginarum Fulvarum*: The book of yellow pages.
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NAITA (Join ViTAL - A1014625) Posted Feb 3, 2003
I could be wrong, but I just searched through Good Omens and I couldn't find a reference to the Necrotelecomnicon. Lots of other cool stuff though. I know Gaiman has written spoof Lovecraftian stories though. Great stuff. 
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BEARDS. Posted Feb 3, 2003
'The Light Fantastic', Corgi paperback 1998 Page 13, while discussing the Octavo:
"There are of course many famous books of magic. Some may talk of the Necrotelicomnicon, with its pages made of ancient lizard skin;"
First reference I could think of.
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Schrödinger's Cat-flap Posted Mar 2, 2003
It's also in Moving Pictures, I think. It's in a locked room under the UU library...
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