The next thing that Sergius did was to tell everyone that the walls of Giger's home were covered with paintings from the Necronomicon, which at the time was not true. Golowin had often given different names to Giger's paintings that he used.

Sergius gave a series of paintings by Giger the name Necronom after the Necronomicon and Giger was content to use the title. Giger actually came to admire the work of Lovecraft but states that his main influence on his work is simply the name of Alhazred's grimoireī) Giger's Necronomicon soon materialises Sergius came to the conclusion that Giger's entire body of work could easily be the illustrations from this non existent Necronomicon.įor a while it appeared that Giger did actually think that book did exist and an arab, Abdul Alhazred was supposed to have collected all the secrets of magic in it, and many other people still do believe that somehow it must exist. Sergius gave a book of Lovecraft's stories to HR Giger and introduced him to the idea of the mysterious Necronomicon book that didn't exist but HP Lovecraft talked about it in his writings. Through him, Giger learnt a lot about magic and mystical symbolism. He was someone who taught those interested in magic and was able to explain it in a historical context. In the late 1960s, HR Giger's friend and 'Spiritual Father', Sergius Golowin, who had worked in Basel as a library assistant, archivist and writer, a real connoisseur of the fantastic who was a well known researcher in fables, myths, legend, and esotericism, and was an advocate of LSD. A) Introducing Giger to the Necronomicon name

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