Necronomnomicon

The Necronomnomicon, or The Cookbook of the Dead, is an odd document that first appeared on a monster-related usenet group in the early days of the internet. The author is listed as Beowulf Van Hesling-Froglick IV, who is also the puported author of the official handbook Discordian Association for Monster Neutralization, another seemingly ridiculous document that contains more morsels of truth than you might expect. Whether the two books are in fact by the same author or the Necronomnomicon's creator used the name as an homage is unknown.   Like many Discordian publications, the Necronomnomicon's quality is inconsisteent, featuring a mix of briliant humor and social commentary mixed with the dumbest nonsense you can imagine. Even the book's purpose is confused: Some chapters feature recipes for food you can feed the undead, others have dishes you can make from the undead, a few contain treatises on the (mostly fictional) dietary habbits of undead creatures, and several are about monsters that are in no way related to the undead.   Despite the book's tongue-in-cheek nature, a surprising amount of the lore contained here is at least tangentially related to to real monster lore. This has led many to speculate that the authors may have been M-Forcers who wrote the book as a gag.