The mummy's curse : the true history of a dark fantasy /

The mummy's curse : the true history of a dark fantasy /

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Main Author: Luckhurst, Roger.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Edition: 1st ed.

Subjects:

Fantasy fiction > History and criticism.
Mummies in literature.
Mummies in mass media.
Mummy films > History and criticism.
Popular culture > English-speaking countries.

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Call Number: PN3435 .L83

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Table of Contents:
  • King Tut and the dead earl
  • Thomas Douglas Murray and 22542 (the 'unlucky mummy)
  • Walter Herbert Ingram and the coffin of Nesmin
  • Egypt in London I: immersive-exotic spaces
  • Egypt in London II: the exhibitionary universe
  • The curse tale and the Egyptian gothic
  • Rider Haggard among the mummies
  • Evil eyes, punitive currents and the late Victorian magic revival.