Podcast
Behind the Bastards
Patricia Pulling mistakenly believed H.P. Lovecraft was a professor who had written this book and used it as a basis for questions when interrogating teenagers.
She advised police officers to open interrogations of teenagers with the question, have you read the Necronomicon or are you familiar with it?
— Episode: Part Two: The Satanic Panic: America's F...
Episode: Part Two: The Satanic Panic: America's First QAnon
Patricia Pulling mistakenly believed H.P. Lovecraft was a professor who had written this book and used it as a basis for questions when interrogating teenagers.
She advised police officers to open interrogations of teenagers with the question, have you read the Necronomicon or are you familiar with it?
Someone after decades after Lovecraft's death published a book called the Necronomicon to kind of cash in on the fact that number one.
Well, it wasn't even a book, right? It wasn't even a real book. No, it was like, yeah.
Episode: Part Two: The Satanic Panic: America's First QAnon
It was a book mentioned as having been published after H.P. Lovecraft's death, and was incorrectly believed to be an educational text by Patricia Pulling. The podcasters clarified that it is a fictional book.
Someone after decades after Lovecraft's death published a book called the Necronomicon to kind of cash in on the fact that number one.
Well, it wasn't even a book, right? It wasn't even a real book. No, it was like, yeah. The best thing. Yeah.
Have you read the Necronomicon or are you familiar with it?
Oh, yeah. Fictional. Yeah, it's fucking great.
