Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, H. P. Lovecraft
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, H. P. Lovecraft
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Imprisoned with the Pharaohs

Author: H. P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 1 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/04/2013


Synopsis

Harry Houdini's greatest escape ever. While visiting Cairo as a tourist, Houdini and his wife are shown around the pyramids by a mysterious and slightly sinister guide who has a strange hollow voice and looks like an old pharaoh.

What starts as a strange traveller's adventure to witness a duel at midnight on the summit of one of the pyramids, turns into a nightmare as Houdini is seized, tied up and lowered on a rope far into the bowels of the earth to an unknown tomb where the oldest and most sinister of the Egyptian Pharaohs dwell.

While Houdini is more than capable of escaping his bonds....can he escape the putrid undead Pharaohs and their servants?

Will he ever find his way out of the undiscovered tomb through the labyrinth of passages? Can he discover the true origin of the terrible Sphinx? Will he even get out of the tomb alive?

Ghost written by H. P. Lovecraft. Unsuitable for claustrophobics, people of a nervous disposition, or people with a vivid visual imagination.

About H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant twentieth-century authors in his genre.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

This tale is unique in the Lovecraft canon, for it was ghost-written for Harry Houdini at the request of J.C. Henneberger, the owner of Weird Tales, which published it in the May-June-July issue of 1924. Henneberger was trying to boost readership, the “Ask Houdini” advice column he had instituted wa......more

Now this is a cool little story. It’s written by HP Lovecraft and has the famous Harry Houdini as the protagonist. Houdini is on vacation in Cairo and is pretty much kidnapped and dropped into a deep hole. Houdini finds himself trapped in an acient temple underneath the Great Sphinx of Giza. While t......more

This is the story Lovecraft ghost wrote for Houdini.......more