The narrative follows a barrister who is summoned in the night by a distressed woman after her father is found unconscious and bloodied; his investigation uncovers ancient Egyptian relics and a ritualistic effort to revive a long-dead royal presence. As friends and experts assemble, the account unfolds through personal journals, letters, and reports, charting experiments, supernatural occurrences, and mounting dread. Themes include the tension between scientific inquiry and occult belief, the persistence of memory and identity beyond death, and the moral costs of attempting to possess or reanimate a past that resists modern control.