Necronomicon Ex-Mortis

The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Naturon Demonto) is a fictional Sumerian book in the Evil Dead series. It made its first appearance in The Evil Dead, and continued its film career in Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness, as well as various spin-off media.

Origins
Not much is known about the creation of the book. It was written by a mysterious group known as "The Dark Ones", who constructed the cover of the book from the flesh of the tortured and the damned. The pages of the book were inked with human blood, gathered from the seas.

The Evil Dead


Prior to the events of the film, Professor Raymond Knowby took the book to his cabin in the woods for study, and recorded his findings and translations of some parts of the book onto a tape recorder. When the recorder is later found by Ash Williams, and the translations played, an evil force posesses various inanimate objects and some of Ash's friends, setting the scene for this and subsequent films.

At the end of the film, the book is thrown into a fire, and is apparently destroyed.

Dead by Dawn


The necromonicon makes a brief appearance in the recap at the beginning of Evil Dead II, and it is revealed that several pages of the book were lost, and later recollected. These pages contain passages which could be used to open a vortex and send the evil back to its own dimension. As the passages are read out, the evil manifests itself again and attacks. As the final passages are spoken, the evil is sucked into the vortex, along with Ash Williams, sending him back in time.

Army of Darkness


In Army of Darkness (the only film in the series where the Necronomicon was not designed by Tom Sullivan), the Necronomicon sported a less deformed look. In the film, the book is resting in an ancient grave yard when Ash arrives to send himself back to his own time. When Ash removes the book from the cradle without speaking the the magic words correctly, the evil force assembles the army of darkness under the control of an Evil Ash.

At the end of the film, the Necronomicon is returned to the wise men for safekeeping. They give Ash a potion containing ingredients from the book, which returns him to his own time.

Army of Darkness:Ashes 2 Ashes
Set directly after the events of Army of Darkness, it is revealed that when Ash returned from the past back to the present, he arrived too early. With help from the wise man, who had travelled through time, Ash manages to send his present self back in time to recover the book from the cabin and travels to Egypt, the place of the book's creation and the only place it can be destroyed. After the wise man is killed and Evil Ash reappears, Ash, with help from the armies of Henry the Red and Arthur (who had travelled to the future with the aid of the Necronomicon of their time) manages to destroy the book by encircling it, along with Evil Ash and his minions, in a ring of fire. Unfortunately, Ash forgets to send the Necronomicon of the past back to its own time, leaving it in the Egyptian desert.

Army of Darkness:Shop Till You Drop Dead
The Necronomicon manages to make its way from Egypt to the supermarket where Ash works, by possessing Mr. Smart, Ash's boss, who had been on vacation in Egypt. The book sends Ash to the distant future, where it lives on in the form of a computer program. Ash finally manages to destroy it after a battle in cyberspace, and returns to his own time.

Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness
The book is featured in this limited series comic book, which focuses on Ash fighting super-powered flesh-hungry zombie versions of popular Marvel comic book superheros. Ash and the book work together to survive being torn apart and eaten; the book believing that it is in danger because it is made of human skin. Ash ultimately betrays the book, leading it to suffer an unexpected fate when picked up by the zombie Hulk. It is not going to be eaten, it is going to be used for toilet paper.

Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash
In the six issue crossover, Ash finds the Necronomicon in the basement of the Voorhees home. After a battle with Jason Voorhees, Jason retrieves the book and uses it to revive Freddy Krueger. When Ash finds the book once again, he engages in a short fight with Freddy, who has read the Necronomicon, giving him reality warping abilities. When Ash escapes with the book, and rejoins with his new partner Caroline,it is revealed that Pamela Voorhees had revived her son with incantations from the Necronomicon.

A final battle begins on the icy waters of Camp Crystal Lake. Using a spell from the book, they send Freddy into the dimension of the Deadites. With Jason assumed dead after Ash's Oldsmobile fell on him, Ash and Caroline drive into the distance to a possible happy ending. But underneath the frozen waters, Jason's eyes open, and the Necronomicon opens its pages to reveal a picture of Ash and several other people staring at Freddy Krueger.