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Pharos, The Egyptian
Guy Newell Boothby
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"In that case I think I will do so," I replied, and accordingly I was ushered into what is perhaps the most characteristic office in London. Having found the morning paper and with unconscious irony placed it before me, the man withdrew, closing the door behind him.
I have said that the room in which I was now seated was characteristic of the man who occupied it. Sir George Legrath is, as every one knows, the most competent authority the world possesses at the present time on the subject of ancient Egypt. He had graduated under my own poor father, and, if only for this reason, we had always been the closest friends. It follows as a natural sequence that the walls of the room should be covered from ceiling to floor with paintings, engravings, specimens of papyrus, and the various odds and ends accumulated in an Egyptologist's career. He had also the reputation of being one of the best-dressed men in London, and was at . . . Read More
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A strange but entertaining Victorian novel about an Egyptian mummy. From what I’ve read, this novel is one of the sources that supposedly served as inspiration for the classic horror movie The Mummy.
Mister Forrester is an English gentleman who comes across Pharos near Cleopatra’s Needle in London. P
I loved this and I wasn't expecting to. Travelling to Naples, Cairo and Luxor as well as Berlin and Prague, London and Norwich even through a 19th lense of a gothic romance was a great trip in Covid times.
Serious pulpalooza happening here, a book I liked so much that I immediately bought Boothby's The Curse of the Snake.
Some time ago I read Richard Marsh's The Beetle, which I loved and at the time designated as the literary equivalent of comfort food. Pharos is another I'd put in that category. It a
Once upon a time, when the British Empire was at its zenith, adventure fiction and fantastical writings began to deal with the idea that London — and tacitly, all Britain — was under threat by some ancient, terrifying force (frequently from a place where Britain had established a colony). There was