Monday, August 12th, 2024

2024/114: Dead Egyptians — Del Blackwater
"The veil is so thin in Egypt."
"The veil? the veil between us and [the ghosts], you mean?"
This pleased him. "The same!" Then, noting the lack of introduction, he said, "Aleister Crowley -- a pleasure to make your acquaintance. [p. 31]

Albion Stanley is a young Englishman returning to Egypt in 1902, after many years' absence and a degree at Cambridge. Since childhood, when he encountered the spirit of legendary architect and physician Imhotep, he's been surrounded by ghosts and terrified of the dead. But anybody who's drunk of the Nile will return to Egypt: and Imhotep assured him, as a child, that he would be waiting.

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