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The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 three-volume novel written by Jane Webb (later Jane C. Loudon). It concerns the Egyptian mummy of Cheops, who is brought back to life in the year 2126. The novel describes a future filled with advanced technology, [1] and was the first English-language story to feature a reanimated mummy ...
During the Edwardian period in 1914, a wealthy shipping-magnate-turned-archaeologist, Lawrence Stratford, discovers an unusual tomb.The mummy inside is identified as the pharaoh Ramses II, the most powerful and most celebrated pharaoh in the history of Egypt, despite the tomb's dating only to the first century B.C., 1100 years after the documented death of Ramses II.
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
In another auction, Tina Fey's book of humorous essays went for $5.5 million to $6 million, while former President Jimmy Carter's White House diaries sold for "around $1 million" according to ...
The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century; Mummy (undead) The Mummy Case (Hardy Boys) Mummy on the Orient Express; The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned; The Mummy's Foot; The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy
"Lot No. 249" is a Gothic horror short story by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in Harper's Magazine in 1892. The story tells of a University of Oxford athlete named Abercrombie Smith who notices a strange series of events surrounding Edward Bellingham, an Egyptology student who owns many ancient Egyptian artefacts, including a mummy.
[1] [2] During a 2014 interview, Rice stated that she had delved back into the fictional universe established in The Mummy and that there was a strong possibility she could pen a sequel. [3] In February 2017, Anne Rice and her son Christopher Rice announced their collaboration on Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra, a sequel to The Mummy.
Boris Karloff as The Mummy (1932) Lon Chaney Jr. as the Mummy in The Mummy's Ghost (1944). The original series of films consisted of six installments, which starred iconic horror actors such as Boris Karloff (only in the original one, as Imhotep); Tom Tyler and Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis; and lastly Eddie Parker, who played Klaris, a cousin of Kharis.