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Curse of the Mummy

Victorian Tales of Ancient Egyptian Terror

Louisa May Alcott
3.3
(3)
Pages
100
Year
2019
Language
English

About

Long before the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 or Boris Karloff's film portrayal of "Imhotep" ten years later, legends of the Mummy enthralled readers of the Western world. The Gothic horror tales collected in this anthology reflect the Victorian fascination with Egypt's oldest inhabitants.

In Curse of the Mummy, four master storytellers of the nineteenth century share gripping tales of cursed plunder and injudicious flirtations with eldritch magic.
THE MUMMY'S FOOT by Théophile Gautier
from Musée des familles, Vol. VII (1840)
AFTER THREE THOUSAND YEARS by Jane G. Austin
from Putnam's Magazine, Vol. II (1868)
LOST IN A PYRAMID, OR THE MUMMYʻS CURSE by Louisa May Alcott
from The New World Magazine, Vol. I (1869)
LOT NO. 249 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
from Harperʻs, Vol. LXXXV (1892)

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