Phantoms in Egypt

Phantoms in Egypt is a fragment of a story never completed. It would have told of a Helen who never arrives in Troy—a Helen abducted by the gods and abandoned on Neptune, while a phantom Helen absconds in her place with the Trojan prince, Paris. On Neptune, the real Helen fills her lonely days playing in a similarly abandoned amphitheatre, or standing wistfully atop a cliff looking out to sea, waiting for her husband, Menelaus, to arrive to bring her home.

A year was spent accumulating live footage and digital materials for what was intended to be a short film but would wind up as no more than a few clips strung together with a single line of text: "I see in you a remarkable likeness to Helen..." The end result could be called a trailer, I suppose, were the finished product ever expected to arrive! Unfortunately, the author's computer could not handle the task, nor was the author prepared to spend the decade required to finish it. And so, this two minute film is all that will ever come of this overly-ambitious project. It is perhaps right for a story about abandonment to have been abandoned. Phantoms in Egypt was the author's very last project before beginning the Quarterhorse series, and it is therefore not surprising that its themes would continue in those books, most explicitly in the third, The Many Charms of Mrs. Quarterhorse. When that book is finally ready for publication, perhaps Phantoms of Egypt will be available here. Or perhaps earlier!

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