Dec 28, 2009
Brood of the Witch Queen | Brood of the Witch Queen
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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