![]() Transparency Meter: □□ Partly transparent. Here’s a fun fact: “Imprisoned with the Pharaohs” is now in the public domain and you can read it right over here. The story was published (appropriately) in a magazine called Weird Tales. Specifically, Lovecraft was commissioned to write a short story titled “Imprisoned with the Pharaohs”: a fictionalized tale in which Houdini is blindfolded by a tour guide in Egypt, pitched into a burial shaft in the desert, and accosted by a five-headed monster that’s as big as a “good-sized hippopotamus.” Lovecraft, ended up becoming Houdini’s ghostwriter in 1924. That’s how another master of his craft, H.P. Sure, Harry Houdini could catch a bullet with his teeth and escape a water torture cell in two minutes. ![]() Peter Lerangis is known by name in the The Babysitter’s Club fandom, who hold polls over his writing for the series to this day. Transparency Meter: □□□□ Fully transparent. I was petrified I’d be terrible at writing this kind of book, so if the chapters were bad they could find someone else, and we’d part friends.” Luckily for Lerangis, the ghostwriting went swimmingly and it turned out pretty well for everyone - including Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey! Upon being asked by the senior editor to ghostwrite for the series, Lerangis admitted: “For the first time in my career I actually asked to write sample chapters. That was when Peter Lerangis stepped into the picture. But did you know that she paused at the 36th book? In a twist of fate, the babysitters needed to be babysat, so to speak. Martin, who solely wrote the first 35 books in the series. You might know that The Babysitter’s Club originated with author Ann M.
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