Sax Rohmer 4 hr 59 min read

A young man battles the sinister Antony Ferrara, heir to ancient Egyptian black magic, through phantom hands, scorpion winds, and swarming beetles.

Sax Rohmer's 1914 occult thriller, by the creator of Fu Manchu, pits ordinary Englishmen against a sorcerer wielding the dark arts of the pharaohs, from London chambers to the streets of Cairo. Lush, fast-moving supernatural horror of the Edwardian school. Read it for atmospheric occult adventure steeped in the mummy-magic craze of its era.

In its time

Published in 1914, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 59 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).