Sax Rohmer

Brood of the Witch-Queen Illustrated Sax Rohmer

The novel begins with the strange murder of Sir Michael 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 inside a secret chamber in an old Egyptian pyramid. Only after a series of adventures and investigation is Antony Ferrara made powerless by Dr Bruce Cairn 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.