![]() Lovecraft received payment of $100 - the largest sum he had hitherto earned as a fiction writer - on March 21. ![]() The last half of the novelette was typed by a stenographer's office in the Hotel Vendig, Philadelphia on the nights of March 4 and 5, 1924. Subsequently Lovecraft retyped half of the novelette on his own, before going to St Paul's Chapel to marry Sonia Greene. Lovecraft famously lost the manuscript of the novelette at Union Station in Providence when he was en route to New York to get married. As such, Lovecraft allowed his imagination free rein, transferring to the temple of the Sphinx but otherwise retaining many of the details of the narrative as related by Houdini." Houdini was attempting to pass off this adventure as a true occurrence, but Lovecraft's subsequent research established that the story was largely fictitious. Henneberger, owner of Weird Tales, wished Lovecraft to write up an account Houdini had told him: on a trip to Egypt, he had been bound by Arabs and left in some deep chamber of Campbell's Tomb in the valley of the pyramids. Lovecraft did much research into the Egyptian setting for the tale (aided by guidebooks from and trips to the Egyptian Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art).Īccording to S.T. ![]() Lovecraft in the Providence Journal (3 March 1924) declaring the loss of the typed manuscript. The proper title was deduced from an advertisement placed by H.P. It was first published under Houdini's byline in the May/June/July 1924 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales and was also reprinted in 34, No 1 (June-July 1939) of the same magazine. Lovecraft for escape artist Harry Houdini in February/March 1924. It was ghost-written by American horror fiction writer H. "Under the Pyramids," is the original manuscript title for a novelette commonly titled "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs,".
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