'As he rushed madly and wildly through the night, he could hear a swift, dry pat
ter behind him, and could see that this horror was bounding at his heels, with b
lazing eyes and one stringy arm out-thrown.'A mummy disappears from its sarcopha
gus in the dead of night; a crazed Egyptologist entombs a beautiful young woman;
a student at Oxford reveals the terrible secrets of an ancient papyrus.These ar
e among the twelve tales from the golden age of the mummy story collected here -
stories that still cast a spell with their different versions of the mummy's cu
rse, some chilling, others darkly romantic and even comic.Including tales by maj
or writes such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Louisa May Alcott, as well as rare disc
overies unearthed for the first time in over 100 years, this enthralling collect
ion is introduced by Andrew Smith, a leading expert on ghost stories and Victori
an gothic.
