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P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Harry_Houdini" title="Harry Houdini">Harry Houdini</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Weird_Tales_May_1924.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Weird_Tales_May_1924.jpg/150px-Weird_Tales_May_1924.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Weird_Tales_May_1924.jpg/225px-Weird_Tales_May_1924.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Weird_Tales_May_1924.jpg/300px-Weird_Tales_May_1924.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2852" data-file-height="3691" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Cover of the May–June–July 1924 edition of <i><a href="/wiki/Weird_Tales" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i>, featuring <i>Imprisoned with the Pharaohs</i></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ededed;color:inherit;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wikiversity-Mooc-Icon-Further-readings.svg/25px-Wikiversity-Mooc-Icon-Further-readings.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wikiversity-Mooc-Icon-Further-readings.svg/38px-Wikiversity-Mooc-Icon-Further-readings.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wikiversity-Mooc-Icon-Further-readings.svg/50px-Wikiversity-Mooc-Icon-Further-readings.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="32" data-file-height="32" /></span></span><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Under_the_Pyramids" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Under the Pyramids"><i>Text available</i></a> at <a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Genre(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy fiction">Fantasy</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ededed;color:inherit;">Publication</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Published in</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Weird Tales</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Publication type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Literary_journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Literary journal">Literary journal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Publication date</th><td class="infobox-data">May 1924</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>Imprisoned with the Pharaohs</b>" (called "<b>Under the Pyramids</b>" in draft form, also published as "<b>Entombed with the Pharaohs</b>"<sup id="cite_ref-Necronomicon_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Necronomicon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) is a <a href="/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">short story</a> written by American <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy fiction">fantasy</a> author <a href="/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a> in collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Harry_Houdini" title="Harry Houdini">Harry Houdini</a> in February 1924. Commissioned by <i><a href="/wiki/Weird_Tales" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i> founder and owner <a href="/wiki/J._C._Henneberger" class="mw-redirect" title="J. C. Henneberger">J. C. Henneberger</a>, the narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true experience of escape artist <a href="/wiki/Harry_Houdini" title="Harry Houdini">Harry Houdini</a>. Set in 1910, in Egypt, Houdini finds himself kidnapped by a tour guide, who resembles an ancient pharaoh, and thrown down a deep hole near the <a href="/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza" title="Great Sphinx of Giza">Great Sphinx of Giza</a>. While attempting to find his way out, he stumbles upon a gigantic ceremonial cavern and encounters the real-life deity that inspired the building of the Sphinx. </p><p>Lovecraft accepted the job because of the money he was offered in advance by Henneberger. The result was published in the May–June–July 1924 edition of <i>Weird Tales</i>, although it was credited solely to Houdini until the 1939 reprint. Despite Lovecraft's use of artistic license, Houdini enjoyed the tale and the two men collaborated on several smaller projects prior to the latter's death in 1926. "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" has been suggested as an early influence on author <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bloch" title="Robert Bloch">Robert Bloch</a> and as anticipating the cosmic themes in Lovecraft's later work, including "<a href="/wiki/The_Shunned_House" title="The Shunned House">The Shunned House</a>". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Under_the_Pyramids&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Told from the <a href="/wiki/First-person_narrative" title="First-person narrative">first-person perspective</a> of <a href="/wiki/Escapology" title="Escapology">escape artist</a> <a href="/wiki/Harry_Houdini" title="Harry Houdini">Harry Houdini</a>, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is a fictionalized account of an encounter that he claims to have experienced while on vacation in <a href="/wiki/Khedivate_of_Egypt" title="Khedivate of Egypt">Egypt</a> in January 1910. Enlisting the services of a guide named Abdul Reis el Drogman, Houdini is taken on a tour of <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a> and eventually forced to break up a conflict between his guide and a <a href="/wiki/Bedouin" title="Bedouin">Bedouin</a> leader by the name of Ali Ziz. Drogman enlists Houdini to help him settle the fight by way of a "custom of great antiquity in Cairo":<sup id="cite_ref-Unabridged_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unabridged-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a boxing match atop the <a href="/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza" title="Great Pyramid of Giza">Great Pyramid of Giza</a>. Houdini soon discovers, however, that the entire argument was merely a ruse designed to lure him into the desert at night and kidnap him. The escape artist is tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down a deep pit.<sup id="cite_ref-Unabridged_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unabridged-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After dreaming of spectacular horrors, Houdini awakens at the bottom of the pit and eventually manages to free himself from the ropes. Suspecting that he is somewhere in a temple under the Great Sphinx of Giza, he travels through the dark in an attempt to find an exit, following what he believes to be a draft from outdoors. Instead, he discovers that he has actually been heading further underground, eventually falling down a flight of stairs and landing in a large ceremonial cavern. There he witnesses an army of half-man, half-animal <a href="/wiki/Mummy_(monster)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mummy (monster)">mummies</a>, led by the ancient Egyptian <a href="/wiki/Pharaoh" title="Pharaoh">pharaohs</a> <a href="/wiki/Khafre" title="Khafre">Khephren</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nitocris" title="Nitocris">Nitokris</a>, leaving offerings to a hippopotamus-sized, five-headed, tentacled beast that appears from a hole deep in the hall. As he escapes, he realizes that this creature is merely the paw of a much larger deity in whose image the Sphinx was carved. Houdini dismisses the events as a hallucination or a dream consequent of the strains of his kidnapping ordeal, despite the resemblance he sees between Khephren and his guide, Drogman.<sup id="cite_ref-Unabridged_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unabridged-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Under_the_Pyramids&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Harry_Houdini_head.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Harry_Houdini_head.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="211" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="170" data-file-height="211" /></a><figcaption>Harry Houdini was pleased with the result of Lovecraft's work and collaborated on several other projects with him prior to Houdini's death in 1926.</figcaption></figure> <p>Facing financial problems, <a href="/wiki/J._C._Henneberger" class="mw-redirect" title="J. C. Henneberger">J. C. Henneberger</a>, the founder and owner of <i><a href="/wiki/Weird_Tales" title="Weird Tales">Weird Tales</a></i>, wanted to associate the popular Harry Houdini with the magazine in order to boost its readership. Following the introduction of an "Ask Houdini" column, as well as the publication of two short stories allegedly written by the escape artist, Henneberger sought out Lovecraft in February 1924 and commissioned him to write the tale of a supposedly true experience that Houdini had had in Egypt. Lovecraft was paid $100 (approximately $1835 in present-day terms) to <a href="/wiki/Ghostwriter" title="Ghostwriter">ghostwrite</a> the story,<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at the time the largest sum he had ever been given as an advance. This was a major factor in motivating him to take the job<sup id="cite_ref-Dream_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dream-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as, after listening to Houdini's story and researching its background, Lovecraft concluded that the tale was completely fabricated and requested permission from Henneberger to take artistic license. After receiving clearance from the editor, he began his writing by spending considerable time researching the setting in books issued by the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" title="Metropolitan Museum of Art">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> as well as by frequently visiting the museum's Egyptian exhibits.<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lovecraft completed "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" in February 1924 but lost his original typescript of the story at <a href="/wiki/Union_Station_(Providence)" title="Union Station (Providence)">Union Station</a> in <a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence, Rhode Island</a> when he was on his way to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a> to get married. He was forced to spend much of his honeymoon in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> retyping the manuscript.<sup id="cite_ref-Horizon_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Horizon-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work's original title, "Under the Pyramids", is known only from the lost and found advertisement that he placed in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Providence_Journal" title="The Providence Journal">The Providence Journal</a></i>. The tale was printed in the May–June–July 1924 edition of <i>Weird Tales</i> as "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" and without credit to Lovecraft in the byline, as Henneberger thought that this would confuse the readers, as the narrative was told entirely from Houdini's first-person perspective. Lovecraft would later receive credit in the editor's note of the 1939 reprint.<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception_and_legacy">Reception and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Under_the_Pyramids&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reception and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" became a popular story and was received favorably by Houdini. The escape artist was so impressed that, until his death, he continued offering the writer jobs and ghostwriting opportunities. Among them was an article criticizing <a href="/wiki/Astrology" title="Astrology">astrology</a> (for which he was paid $75 – approximately $1376 in present-day terms)<sup id="cite_ref-Dream_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dream-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a book entitled <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cancer_of_Superstition" title="The Cancer of Superstition">The Cancer of Superstition</a></i>, of which Lovecraft had completed an outline and some introductory pages prior to Houdini's 1926 death. To thank the author for his work, Houdini gave Lovecraft a signed copy of his 1924 book <i>A Magician Among the Spirits</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Necronomicon_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Necronomicon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lovecraft scholar <a href="/wiki/S._T._Joshi" title="S. T. Joshi">S. T. Joshi</a> praised the tale, calling it "surprisingly effective and suspenseful, with a genuinely surprising ending".<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Science fiction and fantasy author, editor, and critic <a href="/wiki/Lin_Carter" title="Lin Carter">Lin Carter</a>, in his 1972 work <i><a href="/wiki/Lovecraft:_A_Look_Behind_the_Cthulhu_Mythos" title="Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos">Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos</a></i>, refers to the story as "one of the best things Lovecraft had written up to that time".<sup id="cite_ref-Mythos_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mythos-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" has been cited as an early influence on <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bloch" title="Robert Bloch">Robert Bloch</a>, which is particularly evident in his tale "Fane of the Black Pharaoh". Although Lovecraft himself refers to the real sphinx as a god of the dead, Bloch expanded upon the mythos and claimed that the sphinx in "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" was actually <a href="/wiki/Nyarlathotep" title="Nyarlathotep">Nyarlathotep</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Outer_God" class="mw-redirect" title="Outer God">Outer God</a> and Lovecraft creation.<sup id="cite_ref-Nyarlathotep_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nyarlathotep-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The idea of a twist ending, where a terrible discovery is made worse by the realization that it is only part of a larger horror, was used again in "<a href="/wiki/The_Shunned_House" title="The Shunned House">The Shunned House</a>", written later that year. In this tale, the protagonist digs into the cellar of the eponymous dwelling only to find that the thing he believed to be the monster of the tale is only the beast's elbow.<sup id="cite_ref-Subtler_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Subtler-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The text of "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs", like many of Lovecraft's works, is in the public domain and can be found in several compilations of the author's work as well as on the Internet.<sup id="cite_ref-Unabridged_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unabridged-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Under_the_Pyramids&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Necronomicon-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Necronomicon_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Necronomicon_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHarmsJohn_Wisdom_Gonce2003" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Harms&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel Harms (page does not exist)">Harms, Daniel</a>; 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Lovecraft: His Life, His Demons, His Universe</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Woodbury,_Minnesota" title="Woodbury, Minnesota">Woodbury, Minnesota</a>: <a href="/wiki/Llewellyn_Worldwide" title="Llewellyn Worldwide">Llewellyn Worldwide</a>. p. 311. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7387-2284-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7387-2284-9"><bdi>978-0-7387-2284-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Dream+World+of+H.+P.+Lovecraft%3A+His+Life%2C+His+Demons%2C+His+Universe&rft.place=Woodbury%2C+Minnesota&rft.pages=311&rft.pub=Llewellyn+Worldwide&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-7387-2284-9&rft.aulast=Tyson&rft.aufirst=Donald&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DS8ppxGzr8cYC%26q%3D%2522Under%2Bthe%2BPyramids%2522%2BLovecraft%26pg%3DPA78&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnder+the+Pyramids" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Horizon-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Horizon_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSchweitzer2009" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Darrell_Schweitzer" title="Darrell Schweitzer">Schweitzer, Darrell</a> (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HG-vjhQqE_cC&q=%22Under+the+Pyramids%22+Lovecraft&pg=PA122"><i>The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Rockville,_Maryland" title="Rockville, Maryland">Rockville, Maryland</a>: <a href="/wiki/Wildside_Press" title="Wildside Press">Wildside Press</a>. p. 240. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4344-0320-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4344-0320-9"><bdi>978-1-4344-0320-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Fantastic+Horizon%3A+Essays+and+Reviews&rft.place=Rockville%2C+Maryland&rft.pages=240&rft.pub=Wildside+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1-4344-0320-9&rft.aulast=Schweitzer&rft.aufirst=Darrell&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DHG-vjhQqE_cC%26q%3D%2522Under%2Bthe%2BPyramids%2522%2BLovecraft%26pg%3DPA122&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnder+the+Pyramids" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mythos-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Mythos_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCarter1975" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Lin_Carter" title="Lin Carter">Carter, Lin</a> (1975). <i><a href="/wiki/Lovecraft:_A_Look_Behind_the_Cthulhu_Mythos" title="Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos">Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Panther_Books" title="Panther Books">Panther Books</a>. p. 189. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-586-04166-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-586-04166-4"><bdi>0-586-04166-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lovecraft%3A+A+Look+Behind+the+Cthulhu+Mythos&rft.pages=189&rft.pub=Panther+Books&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=0-586-04166-4&rft.aulast=Carter&rft.aufirst=Lin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnder+the+Pyramids" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Nyarlathotep-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Nyarlathotep_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLovecraftR._M._Price2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft">Lovecraft, H. P.</a>; R. M. Price (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DGR6zxWR44UC&q=%22Under+the+Pyramids%22+Lovecraft&pg=PA114"><i>The Nyarlathotep Cycle</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Chaosium" title="Chaosium">Chaosium</a>. p. 256. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-56882-200-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-56882-200-6"><bdi>1-56882-200-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Nyarlathotep+Cycle&rft.pages=256&rft.pub=Chaosium&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=1-56882-200-6&rft.aulast=Lovecraft&rft.aufirst=H.+P.&rft.au=R.+M.+Price&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DDGR6zxWR44UC%26q%3D%2522Under%2Bthe%2BPyramids%2522%2BLovecraft%26pg%3DPA114&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnder+the+Pyramids" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Subtler-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Subtler_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJoshi1996" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/S._T._Joshi" title="S. T. Joshi">Joshi, S. T.</a> (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YdO2XRYNUuQC&q=%22Under+the+Pyramids%22+Lovecraft&pg=PA191"><i>A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Rockville,_Maryland" title="Rockville, Maryland">Rockville, Maryland</a>: <a href="/wiki/Wildside_Press" title="Wildside Press">Wildside Press</a>. p. 316. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-880448-61-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-880448-61-0"><bdi>1-880448-61-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Subtler+Magick%3A+The+Writings+and+Philosophy+of+H.+P.+Lovecraft&rft.place=Rockville%2C+Maryland&rft.pages=316&rft.pub=Wildside+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=1-880448-61-0&rft.aulast=Joshi&rft.aufirst=S.+T.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DYdO2XRYNUuQC%26q%3D%2522Under%2Bthe%2BPyramids%2522%2BLovecraft%26pg%3DPA191&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnder+the+Pyramids" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Under_the_Pyramids&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leigh_Blackmore" title="Leigh Blackmore">Leigh Blackmore</a>. "Under the Pyramids: On Lovecraft and Houdini". EOD [Australian] No 4 (Sept 1991) 17–39 (Part One); and No 5 (1991) 54–83 (Part Two).</li> <li>* Simmons, David, "“A Certain Resemblance”: Abject Hybridity in H. P. Lovecraft’s Short Fiction", in <i>New critical essays on H. P. Lovecraft</i>, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-13-733224-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-13-733224-0">978-1-13-733224-0</a>, pp. 31-54.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Under_the_Pyramids&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikisource-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/15px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/23px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/30px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></a></span> The full text of <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search/Under_the_Pyramids" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Special:Search/Under the Pyramids">Under the Pyramids</a> at Wikisource</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-p-lovecraft/short-fiction">A collection of public domain H. 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Lovecraft)">Memory</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Old_Bugs" title="Old Bugs">Old Bugs</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Transition_of_Juan_Romero" title="The Transition of Juan Romero">The Transition of Juan Romero</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_White_Ship_(story)" title="The White Ship (story)">The White Ship</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Street_(short_story)" title="The Street (short story)">The Street</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Doom_That_Came_to_Sarnath" title="The Doom That Came to Sarnath">The Doom That Came to Sarnath</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter" title="The Statement of Randolph Carter">The Statement of Randolph Carter</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Terrible_Old_Man" title="The Terrible Old Man">The Terrible Old Man</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Tree_(short_story)" title="The Tree (short story)">The Tree</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar" title="The Cats of Ulthar">The Cats of Ulthar</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Temple_(Lovecraft_short_story)" title="The Temple (Lovecraft short story)">The Temple</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Facts_Concerning_the_Late_Arthur_Jermyn_and_His_Family" title="Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family">Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Celepha%C3%AFs" title="Celephaïs">Celephaïs</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/From_Beyond_(short_story)" title="From Beyond (short story)">From Beyond</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Nyarlathotep_(short_story)" title="Nyarlathotep (short story)">Nyarlathotep</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Picture_in_the_House" title="The Picture in the House">The Picture in the House</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ex_Oblivione" title="Ex Oblivione">Ex Oblivione</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Ermengarde" title="Sweet Ermengarde">Sweet Ermengarde</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Nameless_City" title="The Nameless City">The Nameless City</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Quest_of_Iranon" title="The Quest of Iranon">The Quest of Iranon</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Moon-Bog" title="The Moon-Bog">The Moon-Bog</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Outsider_(short_story)" title="The Outsider (short story)">The Outsider</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Other_Gods" title="The Other Gods">The Other Gods</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Music_of_Erich_Zann" title="The Music of Erich Zann">The Music of Erich Zann</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Herbert_West%E2%80%93Reanimator" title="Herbert West–Reanimator">Herbert West–Reanimator</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hypnos_(short_story)" title="Hypnos (short story)">Hypnos</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/What_the_Moon_Brings" title="What the Moon Brings">What the Moon Brings</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Azathoth_(short_story)" title="Azathoth (short story)">Azathoth</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Hound" title="The Hound">The Hound</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Lurking_Fear" title="The Lurking Fear">The Lurking Fear</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Rats_in_the_Walls" title="The Rats in the Walls">The Rats in the Walls</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Unnamable_(short_story)" title="The Unnamable (short story)">The Unnamable</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Festival_(short_story)" title="The Festival (short story)">The Festival</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Shunned_House" title="The Shunned House">The Shunned House</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Horror_at_Red_Hook" title="The Horror at Red Hook">The Horror at Red Hook</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/He_(short_story)" title="He (short story)">He</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/In_the_Vault" title="In the Vault">In the Vault</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Cool_Air" title="Cool Air">Cool Air</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu" title="The Call of Cthulhu">The Call of Cthulhu</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Pickman%27s_Model" title="Pickman's Model">Pickman's Model</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Silver_Key" title="The Silver Key">The Silver Key</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Strange_High_House_in_the_Mist" title="The Strange High House in the Mist">The Strange High House in the Mist</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space" title="The Colour Out of Space">The Colour Out of Space</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Descendant_(short_story)" title="The Descendant (short story)">The Descendant</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Necronomicon" title="History of the Necronomicon">History of the <i>Necronomicon</i></a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Very_Old_Folk" title="The Very Old Folk">The Very Old Folk</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ibid_(short_story)" title="Ibid (short story)">Ibid</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Dunwich_Horror" title="The Dunwich Horror">The Dunwich Horror</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Dreams_in_the_Witch_House" title="The Dreams in the Witch House">The Dreams in the Witch House</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Thing_on_the_Doorstep" title="The Thing on the Doorstep">The Thing on the Doorstep</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Evil_Clergyman" title="The Evil Clergyman">The Evil Clergyman</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Book_(short_story)" title="The Book (short story)">The Book</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Haunter_of_the_Dark" title="The Haunter of the Dark">The Haunter of the Dark</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novellas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dream-Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath" title="The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath">The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Whisperer_in_Darkness" title="The Whisperer in Darkness">The Whisperer in Darkness</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness" title="At the Mountains of Madness">At the Mountains of Madness</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth" title="The Shadow over Innsmouth">The Shadow over Innsmouth</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shadow_Out_of_Time" title="The Shadow Out of Time">The Shadow Out of Time</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward" title="The Case of Charles Dexter Ward">The Case of Charles Dexter Ward</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collaborations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Green_Meadow" title="The Green Meadow">The Green Meadow</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Poetry_and_the_Gods" title="Poetry and the Gods">Poetry and the Gods</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Crawling_Chaos" title="The Crawling Chaos">The Crawling Chaos</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Horror_at_Martin%27s_Beach" title="The Horror at Martin's Beach">The Horror at Martin's Beach</a>"</li> <li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Under the Pyramids</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Curse_of_Yig" title="The Curse of Yig">The Curse of Yig</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mound_(novella)" title="The Mound (novella)">The Mound</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Medusa%27s_Coil" title="Medusa's Coil">Medusa's Coil</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Horror_in_the_Museum" title="The Horror in the Museum">The Horror in the Museum</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Through_the_Gates_of_the_Silver_Key" title="Through the Gates of the Silver Key">Through the Gates of the Silver Key</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Out_of_the_Aeons" title="Out of the Aeons">Out of the Aeons</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Tree_on_the_Hill" title="The Tree on the Hill">The Tree on the Hill</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Till_A%27_the_Seas" title="Till A' the Seas">Till A' the Seas</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/In_the_Walls_of_Eryx" title="In the Walls of Eryx">In the Walls of Eryx</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poetry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fungi_from_Yuggoth" title="Fungi from Yuggoth">Fungi from Yuggoth</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Essays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cancer_of_Superstition" title="The Cancer of Superstition">The Cancer of Superstition</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Supernatural_Horror_in_Literature" title="Supernatural Horror in Literature">Supernatural Horror in Literature</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_Quebec_and_the_Stars" title="To Quebec and the Stars">To Quebec and the Stars</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Autobiography:_Some_Notes_on_a_Nonentity" title="Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity">Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arkham" title="Arkham">Arkham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovecraft_Country" title="Lovecraft Country">Lovecraft Country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%27lyeh" title="R'lyeh">R'lyeh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Characters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Necronomicon" title="Necronomicon">Abdul Alhazred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_West%E2%80%93Reanimator" title="Herbert West–Reanimator">Herbert West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randolph_Carter" title="Randolph Carter">Randolph Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harley_Warren" title="Harley Warren">Harley Warren</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Deities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Azathoth" title="Azathoth">Azathoth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cthulhu" title="Cthulhu">Cthulhu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nyarlathotep" title="Nyarlathotep">Nyarlathotep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shub-Niggurath" title="Shub-Niggurath">Shub-Niggurath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hastur" title="Hastur">Hastur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagon" title="Dagon">Dagon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books about</th><td 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Lovecraft Encyclopedia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lovecraft:_A_Biography" title="Lovecraft: A Biography">Lovecraft: A Biography</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lovecraft:_A_Look_Behind_the_Cthulhu_Mythos" title="Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos">Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Themes/Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cosmicism" title="Cosmicism">Cosmicism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos" title="Cthulhu Mythos">Cthulhu Mythos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror" title="Lovecraftian horror">Lovecraftian horror</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Necronomicon" title="Necronomicon">Necronomicon</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lovecraft Circle</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/August_Derleth" title="August Derleth">August Derleth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith" title="Clark Ashton Smith">Clark Ashton Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bloch" title="Robert Bloch">Robert Bloch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Howard" title="Robert E. 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