Lost in a Pyramid: & Other Classic Mummy Stories

By: A. Smith

'As he rushed madly and wildly through the night, he could hear a swift, dry patter behind him, and could see that this horror was bounding at his heels, with blazing eyes and one stringy arm out-thrown.'

A mummy disappears from its sarcophagus 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 are among the 12 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 curse, some chilling, others darkly romantic and even comic. This enthralling collection is introduced by Andrew Smith, a leading expert on ghost stories and Victorian gothic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712356177
• ISBN13: 9780712356176
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.4"