Khai of Khem
by Brian Lumley

Description:
Khai of Khem is one of Lumley’s most sought after works, unavailable in the US since the early 1980s and never before released in hardcover. Like the Necroscope novels, Khai of Khem combines horror and science fiction, in a fast paced, thrilling novel of time travel and black magic.

In Lumley’s Egypt, the supposedly all-powerful Pharaoh Khasathut is actually a shriveling man who desperately seeks eternal life. In the neighboring Kush, Queen Asharta and Khai, once an escaped Egyptian slave and now the Queen’s love and chief general, prepare to throw off the yoke of Egypt’s oppression. Betrayed by his best friend, Khai is captured by the Pharaoh’s evil magicians who send his spirit into the future. In the modern world, Khai sees the value of guns and bombs. When he is returned to his own time, his new devices enable Kush’s forces to destroy the Pharaoh’s city just as the evil magicians are conjuring an Elder God who will make Khasathut immortal.