"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" by H. P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini
First published in Weird Tales in 1924, IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS is a first-person tale ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for the escapologist Harry Houdini. In the story, Houdini recounts how, while visiting Egypt, he is kidnapped and thrown into a deep shaft beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza. Struggling to escape, he encounters vast underground chambers filled with monstrous, half-human entities and glimpses a colossal, ancient presence tied to Egypt’s forgotten gods.
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"The Haunter of the Graveyard" by J. Vernon Shea | A Cthulhu Mythos Story
THE HAUNTER OF THE GRAVEYARD first appeared in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, 1969. "The story of a TV presenter who encounters a malign spirit in a cemetery."
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"The Temple" by H. P. Lovecraft
THE TEMPLE first appeared in the September 1925 edition of Weird Tales. Told through the final log entries of a doomed German U-boat commander during the First World War, the story charts a descent from prideful rationality into madness and the embrace of the abyss.
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"The Death Watch" by Hugh B. Cave | A Cthulhu Mythos Story
THE DEATH WATCH is a short story by the British born, American author, Hugh B. Cave. The story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in its 1939 June-July edition, was described as follows: "What ghastly thing was it that came clumping into the big house out of that wild night of storm?"
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"The Music of Erich Zann" by H. P. Lovecraft
THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN was first published in the March 1922 edition of The National Amateur. In a shadowed quarter of a mysterious Old World city, a poor student takes lodgings in a crooked house on the Rue d’Auseil and becomes entranced by the strange nocturnal music of his neighbour: an aged, reclusive viol-player named Erich Zann.
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