Curse of the Mummy - Alcott, Louisa May; Austin, Jane G.
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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…mehr

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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 MUMMY¿S CURSE by Louisa May Alcott from The New World Magazine, Vol. I (1869) LOT NO. 249 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from Harper¿s, Vol. LXXXV (1892) This anthology has been newly compiled, edited and typeset by Fox Editing for the Supernatural Fox Sisters' Supernatural History Series. These works were collected from various digital and print editions in the public domain and are presented unabridged. The original spellings have been retained, while some archaic punctuation has been lightly modernized.
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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Hillside, later called the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, filmed several times. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888.