Revenge of the Mummy: 10+ Occult & Supernatural Classics

Revenge of the Mummy: 10+ Occult & Supernatural Classics

Victorian Tales of Cursed Tombs, Occult Revenge, and the Ancient DeadBy H. Rider Haggard, Algernon Blackwood, Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh, Guy Boothby, Mrs. Loudon, Ambrose Pratt, Victor Appleton, Baroness Orczy, Charlotte Bryson Taylor
Michael Caine
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Revenge of the Mummy: 10+ Occult & Supernatural Classics gathers tales in which antiquity, forbidden knowledge, and uncanny return unsettle the modern world. Moving among Gothic terror, imperial adventure, occult romance, sensation fiction, and proto-scientific fantasy, the volume traces the mummy not merely as a monster but as a charged emblem of colonial desire, archaeological trespass, and death's resistance to confinement. Egyptian curses, animated relics, secret rites, and spectral visitations create a richly varied field of suspense, with the recurring image of the awakened dead lending the collection both coherence and menace. Its contributors represent a broad late-Victorian and Edwardian culture of popular supernatural writing. H. Rider Haggard, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Richard Marsh, Guy Boothby, Baroness Orczy, and their contemporaries brought adventure narrative, decadent occultism, domestic unease, and imaginative speculation into productive contact. Alongside writers associated with imperial romance and the Gothic revival are voices from children's fiction and popular magazine literature, demonstrating how widely the supernatural circulated across genres and audiences. Together, these works illuminate anxieties surrounding empire, gender, science, spiritualism, and the museum-like possession of the past. Ideal for students and enthusiasts of Gothic and fantastic literature, this anthology offers a compelling opportunity to compare multiple treatments of a durable supernatural motif. Readers will find both immediate narrative pleasures and a valuable historical record of how popular fiction transformed archaeological fascination into cultural dread. Its juxtaposed voices invite sustained reflection on the dialogue between adventure, horror, and occult imagination.

Audiobook details

GenreHorror, General Fiction
Length102 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Temptations of Satan: 12 Occult Classics
2The Mummy!
3INTRODUCTION.
4CHAPTER IV.
5CHAPTER VII.
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6CHAPTER IX.
7CHAPTER X.
8CHAPTER XI. (pt. 1)
9CHAPTER XI. (pt. 2)
10CHAPTER XI. (pt. 3)
11CHAPTER XI. (pt. 4)
12CHAPTER XI. (pt. 5)
13CHAPTER XI. (pt. 6)
14Pharos, the Egyptian
15Preface (pt. 1)
16Preface (pt. 2)
17Preface (pt. 3)
18Preface (pt. 4)
19Preface (pt. 5)
20The Jewel of the Seven Stars
21Chapter I A Summons in the Night
22Chapter II Strange Instructions
23Chapter III The Watchers
24Chapter IV The Second Attempt
25Chapter V More Strange Instructions
26Chapter VI Suspicions
27Chapter VII The Traveller's Loss
28Chapter VIII The Finding of the Lamps
29Chapter IX The Need of Knowledge
30Chapter X The Valley of the Sorcerer
31Chapter XI A Queen's Tomb
32Chapter XII The Magic Coffer
33Chapter XIII Awaking From the Trance
34Chapter XIV The Birth-Mark
35Chapter XV The Purpose of Queen Tera
36Chapter XVI Powers--Old and New
37Chapter XVII The Cavern
38Chapter XVIII Doubts and Fears
39Chapter XIX The Lesson of the "Ka"
40Chapter XX The Great Experiment
41Smith and the Pharaohs
42SMITH AND THE PHARAOHS
43MAGEPA THE BUCK
44THE BLUE CURTAINS
45LITTLE FLOWER (pt. 1)
46LITTLE FLOWER (pt. 2)
47ONLY A DREAM
48CHAPTER IV A YEAR LATER
49CHAPTER VII BARBARA’S SIN
50The Living Mummy

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