Brood of the Witch Queen

Brood of the Witch Queen

"Brood of the Witch Queen" is a 1918 supernatural novel by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, known better under his pseudonym, Sax Rohmer.

The story deals with Robert Cairn and his suspicions of Anthony Ferrara, the adopted son of an old friend and colleague of Robert's father, Dr Bruce Cairn, of infernal magic and supernatural influence.

Plot

The novel begins with the strange murder of Mr Ferrara. A horrifying series of events follows, leading to a woman being used against her will to prey on her husband and then abducted and killed in inside a secret chamber in an old Egyptian pyramid. Only after a series of adventures and investigation is Anthony Ferrara made powerless by Dr Bruce destroying the source of his control — the famed "Book of Thoth" — upon which Ferrara is no longer able to control the elemental he has summoned and is found as a burned corpse the day after.

Dracula

H.P.Lovecraft compared the novel as being similar to Bram Stoker's Dracula, alongside Richard Marsh's "The Beetle" or Gerald Bliss' "The door of the unreal" in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature".


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