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{{Short description|Hentai anime created in 2001}}
{{Infobox animanga/Header
| name            = Mystery of the Necronomicon
| image           = Image-Necronomicom cover.jpg
| image_size      = 230px
| caption         = Cover from the first English DVD release of ''Mystery of the Necronomicon''
| ja_kanji        = 黒の断章
| ja_romaji       = Kuro no Danshō
| genre           = [[Erotic horror]], [[Occult detective]]
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type            = ova
| director        = Hideki Takayama<br>Yoshitaka Makino
| producer        = 
| writer          = Ryo Saga
| music           = Hiroaki Sano<br>Kazuhiko Izu
| studio          = Discovery<br>Scare Crow
| licensee        = {{English anime licensee|NA=[[Right Stuf Inc.#Critical Mass Video|Critical Mass]]}}
| released        = 2001
| runtime         = 120 minutes
| episodes        = 4
| episode_list    = 
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}

{{nihongo|'''''Mystery of the Necronomicon'''''|黒の断章|Kuro no Danshō}} is a [[hentai]] [[anime]] created by Abogato Powers and released in 2001.

==Plot==
Private detective Satoshi Suzuhara and his adoptive daughter, Asuka Kashiwagi, are spending time at an isolated ski resort. But when a snowstorm cuts off all links to the outside, Satoshi becomes the main suspect in a string of gruesome murders being committed on the resort guests. It becomes a race against time as Satoshi must find out who is really behind the murders.

==H. P. Lovecraft==
{{Original research section|date=May 2021}}
The story is heavily inspired by the writings of noted horror author, [[H. P. Lovecraft]], including references to not only the ''[[Necronomicon]]'', a book of his creation, but to [[Miskatonic University]], Abdul Alhazred, and other Lovecraft characters. The main villain is, in fact, Herbert West, the central character of Lovecraft's "[[Herbert West–Reanimator]]". The plot includes many Lovecraftian tropes, including mad scientists, ancient rituals, dream interpretation, and a private investigator protagonist. The grand finale takes place on [[Walpurgis Night]], the night of sacrifice in Lovecraft's "[[The Dreams in the Witch House]]".

== External links ==
* {{ann|anime|3506}}
* {{url|https://deepcuts.blog/2021/02/27/mystery-of-the-necronomicon-%E9%BB%92%E3%81%AE%E6%96%AD%E7%AB%A0-1999/|Review by subject matter expert Robert (Bobbie) Durie)}} (Debatable source)
* {{url|1=https://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=588/|2=THEM Anime Review}}

[[Category:2001 anime OVAs]]
[[Category:Anime 18]]
[[Category:Hentai anime and manga]]
[[Category:Horror anime and manga]]
[[Category:Occult detective anime and manga]]
[[Category:Cthulhu Mythos stories]]
[[Category:Zombies in anime and manga]]
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