Next month, just ahead of ITV’s new drama about the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, the British Library will publish Lost in a Pyramid, a brilliant new collection of classic mummy stories.
Of the 12 included, only one was familiar to me: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lot No 249, in which an Oxford student reanimates a mummy and sends it to attack those against whom he has a grudge. Most of the others – Eva M Henry’s The Curse of Vasartas (the removal of a sarcophagus brings tragedy on all involved); WG Peasgood’s The Necklace of Dreams (those who wear it will suffer first visions, and then death); Hester White’s The Dead Hand (until restored to its rightful owner, it brings only misfortune to the story’s narrator) – have not been in print since their publication. Either way, it’s a major treat, its editor Andrew Smith, an academic with a special interest in the gothic, having made his selection primarily on grounds of their (to me, extreme) readability.
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