Grimoire By Deane Barker • November 24, 2023 • This is a spellbook – a mythical textbook of magic. The etymology is not clear. Why I Looked It Up In an article about programming: I went to the Borders bookstore in the Short Hills mall and bought “Beginning Visuall C++” by Ivor Horton. It ran to twelve hundred pages – my first grimoire. I also saw many references to the fictional Necronomicon, by H.P. Lovecraft. Finally, while walking through Barnes and Noble, I saw a gaming book called Grimoire Nier. Not sure what it was about – something to do with magic.