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unusual facts about Egyptian Hall


Egyptian Hall

Later, when the hall came under the control of the Maskelyne family, a more settled policy was adopted and it soon became known as England's Home of Mystery.



see also

Digesting Duck

The Duck is featured in Lavie Tidhar's The Bookman, in the Egyptian Hall, alongside the Turk.

Philip James de Loutherbourg

At Christmas, 1781, Loutherbourg mounted a spectacle at a party in the Egyptian Hall at Fonthill for William Beckford, promising (according to Beckford) to "present a mysterious something that the eye has not seen or heart of man conceived ".