In the title story a quiet Englishman, obsessed with the face of a long-dead queen, is shut in the Cairo Museum after dark and witnesses a gathering of the spirits of the pharaohs. The collection adds Haggard’s other late tales, including the Zulu story of Magepa the Buck, a haunting called The Blue Curtains, and an adventure on an African river.
Atmospheric, romantic stories for readers of She and King Solomon’s Mines. Download the free EPUB.