Pharos, the Egyptian

Pharos, the Egyptian"This powerful novel is weird and soul thrilling." The Scotsman. Cyril Forrester, a young Englishman traveling on the Continent, chances to meet a secretive old man and his ward, a lovely young violinist named Valerie. Enthralled by Valerie's beauty and disturbed by the elderly Egyptian's depravity, Forrester follows the couple around Europe. A sinister plot is slowly revealed, in which a mummy's curse threatens to destroy the Western world. Victorian

court officials

quantum physicists

Men who understood intuitively the workings of mass persuasion techniques long before they became widespread describe their own thoughts

and desperation that underlie acts of treason

golden sower

supernatural episodes

impeccable draftsmanship

The plates are from standard editions of Redouté’s collections

fantasy classic

An important introductory section deals with methods of drawing and the proper proportioning of the body

and use (in the case of arbitrary systems) of the thermodynamic potential

shopping baskets filled with food