Imprisoned with the Pharaohs

Storytelling of gothic horror in the tradition of MR James, Poe, Blackwood and HP Lovecraft.

Edwyrdian Tales

Live storytelling by candle-light bringing Weird Tales to life…

Join Edwyrdian Tales for an evening of enthralling storytelling where Harry Houdini, the great escape-artist and magician, faces his most daring and terrifying feat of escapology deep beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert…
In 1910 Houdini and his wife travel to Egypt in search of the picturesque and the mystically impressive. But what they find leads down a dark path of adventure, incarceration and ancient mystery. Their curious guide Abdul Reis al Drogman draws Houdini to a duel for honour atop the Great Pyramid of Giza itself. The escapologist soon finds himself ensnared in a trap and cast down a near-bottomless hole under the Great Sphinx – an entity older and stranger than even the dark Gods of the Pharaohs. Houdini is trapped in a desperately real race against time to free himself from the sandy prison that might become his own tomb…
“Presently we descended toward the Sphinx, and sat silent beneath the spell of those terrible unseeing eyes… though sand covered the tablet between the great paws, we recalled what Thutmosis IV inscribed thereon, and the dream he had when a prince. It was then that the smile of the Sphinx vaguely displeased us, and made us wonder about the legends of subterranean passages beneath the monstrous creature, leading down, down, to depths none might dare hint at…”
Originally published in the May–June–July 1924 edition of Weird Tales, credited solely to Houdini until the 1939 reprint where HP Lovecraft was revealed to be the ghost writer behind the Eldritch Tale. Despite Lovecraft&#x27;s use of artistic license, Houdini enjoyed the story and the two men collaborated on several smaller projects prior to the latter&#x27;s death in 1926.

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