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.
 
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