H. P. Lovecraft
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
Published: 1924
Language: English
Estimated Reading Time: ~44 minutes hours
In Imprisoned with the Pharaohs by H. P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini escapes his ropes beneath Giza. Getting out of the chambers is another matter.
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A night visit to Giza ends with a bound and blindfolded man lowered into a pit. The voice belongs to an escape artist: he takes stock of his ropes and injuries before trying to make sense of the stairways and the sounds below him.
Lovecraft wrote Imprisoned with the Pharaohs for Harry Houdini. It appeared under Houdini's name in Weird Tales in 1924 as Under the Pyramids. The four illustrations in this edition follow an escape story that gets stranger the farther it goes beneath the Sphinx.