Simon's "Dead Names" (2006)

New York City: Avon (book), 2006.
7.75" x 4.125" x 0.875", 316 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-06-078704-2.

Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon by Simon, as published by Avon Books (New York City) in a softcover edition in 2006. This is a history and defense of the Necronomicon, by its presenter.

This contains a few pages about William S. Burroughs and his relationship to the Necronomicon, pp. 160-162. Burroughs supplied a blurb for the initial release of the book in 1977.

Contents: 

• Acknowledgments
• Timeline
• Introduction: Chapel Perilous
• Part One: A List of Kings Before the Flood...:
• 1. Set and Setting
• 2. The Cathedral of Starry Wisdom, Inc.
• 3. The Discovery of the Necronomicon
• 4. The Children
• 5. Magickal Childe
• Part Two: The Sumerian Tradition and the Hidden God:
• 6. The Lost Gods of Sumer
• 7. The Hidden God
• 8. The Magic of the Black Book
• 9. Dead Names
• 10. Summa Necronomica