Nezu Press presents an anthology of thirty-two tales of Egyptian mummies originally published between 1827 and 1939, half of which were written by female authors, and a third of which have not been republished since they first appeared in print. Alongside stories by well-known writers, such as Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Lot No. 429’, Guy Boothby’s ‘A Professor of Egyptology’, and H. Rider Haggard’s ‘Smith and the Pharaohs’, there are a number of tales by forgotten authors, such as Jane G. Austin’s ‘After Three Thousand Years’, Eva M. Henry’s ‘The Curse of Vasartas’, Florence Carpenter Dieudonné’s ‘Xartella’, and Hester White’s ‘The Dead Hand’. Illustrated with forty black-and-white images, some of which accompanied the stories when they were first published, this volume also includes a 29-page introductory essay by Gina R. Collia: ‘Cure Me, Thrill Me, Kill Me! The Mummy: From Magical Cure to Murderous Curse’.

Contents:

Cure Me, Thrill Me, Kill Me! The Mummy: From Magical Cure to Murderous Curse - Gina R. Collia. The Mummy (excerpt, 1827) - Jane Webb Loudon The Mummy’s Soul (1862) - Anonymous After Three Thousand Years (1868) - Jane G. Austin Lost in a Pyramid; Or, the Mummy’s Curse (1869) - Louisa May Alcott The Egyptian Amulet (1881) - Mrs M. Sheffey Peters The Paraschites (1889) - Mallard Herbertson (pseud. of Marie Hutcheson) The Curse of Vasartas (1889) - Eva M. Henry Embalmed Alive (1890) - Gustave Toudouze Xartella (1891) - Florence Carpenter Dieudonné Lot No. 249 (1892) - A. Conan Doyle The Unseen Man’s Story (1893) - Julian Hawthorne     Robber of the Dead (1894) - Rev. W. S. Lach-Szyrma At the Pyramid of the Sacred Bulls (1896) - Charles J. Mansford Pharaoh’s Curse (1897) - Lucian Sorrel The Story of Baelbrow (1898) - E. and H. Heron (pseud. of Kate and Hesketh Pritchard) The Mummy Necklace (1899) - Arabella Romilly The Spirit of Amenof (1899) - Countess De Sulmalla The Mummy and the Moth (1900) - Agnes Warner McClelland The Mummy Hand (1901) - Adeline Sergeant The Skirts of Chance (1902) - Beatrice Heron-Maxwell The Dead Hand (1904) - Hester White A Professor of Egyptology (1904) - Guy Boothby The Bulb (1906) - Clive Pemberton The Soul of a Mummy (1908) - Blanche Bloor Schleppy The Secret of Horeb-Ra-Men (1909) - Edwin Wooton The Case of Professor Engelbach (1909) - Derek Vane (pseud. of Blanche Eaton Back) The Necklace of Dreams (1910) - W. G. Peasgood The Dead Face (1910) - Frederick Graves Smith and the Pharaohs (1913) - H. Rider Haggard     The Mummy’s Foot (1914) - Jessie Adelaide Middleton Black Coffee (1929) - Jeffery Farnol The Mummy of Ret-Seh (1939) - A. Hyatt Verrill

Cover: (Foreground) Painted coffin of Lady Tadi-en-hent awy, 650-500 BCE, courtesy of Birmingham Museums Trust. (Background) Grand Portico of the Temple of Philœ (edited) by David Roberts RA, 1856.