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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