hp lovecraft imprisoned with the pharaohs

After a visit to the Sphinx and a dig site led by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt, the Houdinis follow their mysterious Arab tour guide, Abdul Reis al Drogman, to the top of the Great Pyramid.

There they meet with Miskatonic professor of archaeology Nate Ward, who tells them the story of Nitocris, the dreaded ghoul queen of the 4th Dynasty. 1, if memory serves).Imprisoned with the Pharaohs is an audio drama adaptation of the short story of the same name by Howard Phillips Lovecraft.Īs war brews in Europe, world-famous magician Harry Houdini and his wife Bess stop in Cairo on a world tour in the summer of 1914. Earl Clauson's 'Vampirism in Rhode Island', in his These Plantations, as well as Faye Ringel Hazel's 'Some Strange New England Mortuary Practices: Lovecraft Was Right' ( Lovecraft Studies 29, Fall 1993), and the bit about the 'human-shaped figure' comes from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land, by Charles M. were you aware of the various levels of genuine history and folklore HPL included there? The Roulet family, for instance, is very genuine, and the story of that ancestor crops up in, for instance, Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of the Werewolf the flood mentioned, where the ship actually all but tapped the windows of the house, was a genuine historical event in Providence the vampire beliefs of the region were also genuine (see, for instance, J.

Just as a sidelight concerning 'The Shunned House'. Even with that less-than-pleasing effect, in all other ways the story began as and has remained among my favorites.

I always enjoyed everything else about it, though, and I am one of those who found the historical background utterly fascinating, and the bittersweet ending quite touching. Later readings (much later) had me finding it to be much less jarring, and I began to appreciate what he was doing. However, the rest of the tale more than made up for what struck me as almost comic, rather than cosmic. Click to expand.I've got to admit that, on my initial reading of the story (back when I was about 12 or 13) I found it quite jarring.

Hp lovecraft imprisoned with the pharaohs