Curse of the Mummy: Victorian Tales of Ancient Egyptian Terror

by Louisa May Alcott, Jane G. Austin, Katie Fox (Editor)

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 Th�ophile Gautier
from Mus�e 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 MUMMYʻS CURSE by Louisa May Alcott
from The New World Magazine, Vol. I (1869)

LOT NO. 249 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
from Harperʻs, 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.

95 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 28, 2019

About the author

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used pen names such as A.M. Barnard, under which she wrote lurid short stories and sensation novels for adults that focused on passion and revenge.
Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Elizabeth Sewall Alcott, and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. The novel was well-received at the time and is still popular today among both children and adults. It has been adapted for stage plays, films, and television many times.
Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She also spent her life active in reform movements such as temperance and women's suffrage. She died from a stroke in Boston on March 6, 1888, just two days after her father's death.