Brood of the Witch Queen (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Henry Ward
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—occult
- Time of Work: 1914
- Setting: London, Oxford, and their environs in England; Cairo, Port Said, and the Pyramid of Meydum in Egypt
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Magical and occult fantasy
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Europe or Europeans, 1910’s, England or English people, London, Witches or witchcraft, Egypt or Egyptians
- Locales: London, England, Oxford, England, Cairo, Egypt
The Plot
As a medical student at Oxford University, Robert Cairn first becomes suspicious of fellow student Antony Ferrara, the adopted son of Sir Michael Ferrara, a noted Egyptologist and a close friend of Cairn’s father. The young Ferrara, whom Cairn finds “repellently effeminate,” dresses in furs and keeps fires burning in his quarters even at midsummer. His rooms reek of incense and are filled with ancient Egyptian relics, including a mummy. There is a photograph of the swan Apollo whose strange death Cairn witnessed. He observes Ferrara burning a waxen swan figurine....
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