![]() ![]() Lovecraft’s “ Under the Pyramids.” Each in their own way icons of early twentieth-century America, Lovecraft and Houdini led strikingly different lives. ![]() With his trademark skills, Houdini frees himself and reaches the surface, insisting-despite his injuries-that it was nothing more than a dream.įans of horror fiction know this bizarre story under a different name and authorship: H. The magician tells of his voyage to Egypt, where he is captured by nefarious locals and imprisoned beneath a pyramid, to be sacrificed to horrid monsters of untold age. The cover story of the May–June–July issue was “Imprisoned with the Pharaohs,” by none other than Harry Houdini. In 1924, readers of the fantasy and horror pulp Weird Tales found a more familiar figure alongside the usual crowd of ghouls, corpses, and scantily clad women. The cover of the May-June-July 1924 issue of Weird Tales Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and Tennessee Williams. They were the birthplaces of Tarzan and Zorro, and published the work of such luminaries as Agatha Christie, F. Ephemeral by its very nature, the pulp magazine or paperback brought millions of readers the derring-do of detectives and superheroes, the misadventures of doomed lovers, and the horrors of gruesome monsters. Pulp is one of the great unheralded archives of American cultural history. ![]()
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