World of Cthulhu discussion

This was a very interesting story written by Lovecraft. At no other time had he written from the perspective of a celebrity, Harry Houdini. This was not one of my personal favorites, but still a very well written story. This gives someone who has never been to the pyramids the feeling that they are walking among those ancient monstrosities. The terror builds extremely well in about half the story, the other half being a lot of build up to Harry actually getting to Egypt and then to the pyramids. When you were reading this story did you feel the same way?