Sax Rohmer ~5 hr read

The wily holy man Abû Tabâh moves through the bazaars and shaded lattices of a mysterious Egypt, where pearls, poison, and old sorcery entangle the unwary in tale after exotic tale.

Sax Rohmer's 1918 collection, by the creator of Fu Manchu, gathers atmospheric adventure and fantasy stories of Egypt. Exotic, eerie, richly colored. Read it for classic Rohmer local color, a linked cycle of intrigue and the occult in the streets and desert of a secret, storied Egypt.

In its time

Published in 1918, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

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