Sax Rohmer ~5 hr read

A flash of lightning, shaded windows, a haunting, and then Egypt: a camp in the desert, a lotus sarcophagus, and the ritual awakening of a princess who has slept three thousand years.

Sax Rohmer's 1928 novel, by the creator of Fu Manchu, is an atmospheric mystery-adventure of Egyptian enchantment. Exotic, eerie, expertly paced. Read it for classic Rohmer, a moody tale of archaeology and the occult, where the line between showmanship and true awakening grows terrifyingly thin.

In its time

Published in 1928, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).