Under the Pyramids
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"Under the Pyramids", also known as "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs", is a short story ghost-written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft for escape artist Harry Houdini in February/March 1924.[1] It was first published under Houdini's byline in the May/June/July 1924 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
[edit] Reaction
Lin Carter reports that "both Weird Tales and Houdini himself were impressed" by Lovecraft's work. Carter calls "Under the Pyramids" "one of the best things Lovecraft had written up to that time.... [T]he mystery and romance of antiquity stirred Lovecraft deeply, and the glamorous Egyptian setting of this fictionalized narrative touched creative wellsprings within him, producing one of his most powerful and evocative pieces."[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Lin Carter, Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos, pp. 35, 37.
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