By C. BRYSON TAYLOR
With two decorations in color. 12mo, $1.25
Most readers will class this as a ghost story, but it is so plausibly told that many may, like one of the chief characters, think it might all be explained by the natural causes after all. It tells the astonishing adventures of three American engineers, excavating in the heart of an Egyptian desert. The book is decorated with pictures of the desert at sunset and in the starlight, and there are initials and a cover in the Egyptian style.
N. Y. Times Review:—“Remarkably well written, with style and discretion and feeling for effect. You must read the tale to know about it.”
N. Y. Globe:—“To strike a note of weird horror, and to sustain that note page after page, without once falling away from the original key, is a talent not given to a great number of authors.... A vividness that makes it difficult to banish the picture from your memory for many a day after reading it.”
N. Y. Sun:—“An uncanny story of the victory of the inscrutable East over three American engineers ... a well-written and readable story.”
Public Opinion:—“A weird tale unusually well told.”
Independent:—“A new kind of thrill.... We warn all who have nerves and nightmares against reading this book.”
Chicago Record-Herald:—“Fascinating ... the author’s art is such that one is carried away by the romance.... Told with consummate skill.”
Boston Beacon:—“A tale of mystery and cumulative interest continuously absorbing ... two decorations in color, highly suggestive of the desert region where the occult action of the tale takes place.”