Solar Pons

Of London. Private detective with strong similarities to Sherlock Holmes. Pons said that the Necronomicon, Cultes des Ghoules, De Vermis Mysteriis, and Liber Ivonis were nonexistent, having "a precarious existence only in the writings of certain minor authors of American origin, all apparently followers, in a remote sense, of the work of Edgar Allan Poe" [AWD Six]. However, James C. O’Leary has pointed out that Pons made this statement in 1930, before Cultes des Ghoules, De Vermis Mysteriis, or Liber Ivonis had been mentioned in any published stories. So it is not clear how Pons could have been familiar with these titles. Also, a year later in 1931, Pons published the monograph An Examination of the Cthulhu Cult and Others. Previously, in 1905, he had published another monograph called An Inquiry into the Nan-Matal Ruins of Ponape. [AWD Who] The latter work is suggestive because Ponape is associated with the cult of Cthulhu and the Deep Ones.

O'Leary suggests that in AWD Six, Pons and/or his narrator, Lyndon Parker, may have decided to simply pretend that these elder tomes (Necronomicon, etc.) are unreal. [See James C. O’Leary, "How Deep Did the Amworthy Hoax Go?" in Belanger, Derrick (editor), The Pontine Dossier: Millennium Edition (Volume One, Issue One. Winter/Spring 2020.) Belanger Books. Kindle Edition.]

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