PART ONE: CURSE STORIES
1: King Tut and the dead Earl
Opening the Tomb
First Interpretations
2: Precursor Stories I: Thomas Douglas Murray and 22542 (The
Unlucky Mummy)
3: Precursor Stories II: Walter Ingram and the Coffin of Nesmin
PART TWO: CONTEXTS
4: Egypt in London I: Immersive-Exotic Spaces
The Egyptian Hall, Belzoni's Tomb and Mummy Pettigrew
The Exotic Panorama and the Theatrical Extravaganza
Bazaars, West End Shopping, and Exotic Consumption
5: Egypt in London II: The Exhibitionary Universe
Egypt at the World's Fairs
The British Museum in the Empire of Shadows
6: The Curse Tale and the Egyptian Gothic
Learning to Curse
Plagues, Scarabs, and the Nuclear Option: The Golden Age of
Egyptian Curse Stories
The Museum Gothic
Algernon Blackwood: Egypt Introjected
7: Rider Haggard Among the Mummies
Rider Haggard's Encounters with Egypt
Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Haggard and Major E. Arthur Haggard in
Egypt
Rider Haggard's Artefactual Fictions
8: Evil Eyes, Punitive Currents and the Late Victorian Magic
Revival
Late Victorian Hermeticism: Blavatsky's Theosophical Society
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Haute Magie and Low
Comedy
Magical Thinking and Curse Logic
Closing in: The Evil Eye Looks Back
Afterword
Roger Luckhurst has written and broadcast widely on popular
culture, specialising in science fiction and the Gothic. He is
interested in the odd spaces between science and popular
supernatural beliefs. He has previously written a history of how
the notion of 'telepathy' emerged in the late Victorian period, and
has published editions of Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula. He is also a
regular radio reviewer of terrible science fiction films. He
teaches
horror and the occasional respectable novel by Henry James at
Birkbeck College, University of London.
[An] alluring book ... The story of the mummy's curse,
unsurprisingly, is far more revealing of attitudes and anxieties
prevalent in 19th century Britain than of anything in Ancient
Egypt.
*Thomas Jones, London Review of Books*
The Mummy's Curse is a thoughtful and thorough exegesis of an
enduring popular myth.
*Irish Times*
A fascinating account ... There are some absolutely laugh-out-loud
moments in this consistently insightful and well-written study ...
This is the kind of academic volume which impresses you with the
ideas found on each page, and at the same time sparks off new ideas
in the reader.
*Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman*
Here is a topic with a variety of themes, some farcical, some
darkly serious, some complex, and others which are beyond silly. It
takes a particular skill to balance such a range of ideas, and
Roger Luckhurst possesses this skill.
*John Ray, Times Literary Supplement*
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