The long lost sorcerer's handbook, compiled in 800 A.D. by the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazzred lives on in the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft...
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It was invented by Lovecraft. The authors cashing in on it by writing versions of it are all from long after he had died.