Does your mummy tell you off for jumping on your bed?Does she make you eat vegetables when you don't want to?Then call The Mummy Shop, and we will help you find the perfect new mummy. 100% satisfaction guaranteed!When a little boy grows tired of his mummy, he calls The Mummy Shop for help. But after a number of mishaps and misunderstandings, he starts to think he may have made a big mistake... A laugh-out-loud tale of one boy's quest to find the perfect mummy... his own!
Does your mummy tell you off for jumping on your bed?Does she make you eat vegetables when you don't want to?Then call The Mummy Shop, and we will help you find the perfect new mummy. 100% satisfaction guaranteed!When a little boy grows tired of his mummy, he calls The Mummy Shop for help. But after a number of mishaps and misunderstandings, he starts to think he may have made a big mistake... A laugh-out-loud tale of one boy's quest to find the perfect mummy... his own!
A quirky history that offers a new way of understanding the myth of the mummy's curse. Roger Luckhurst provides a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions.
Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned horror and dark fantasy authors! Explore the uncanny world of mummies, ancient egypt, and dark sorcery, with these 20 stories: SYMPATHY FOR MUMMIES, by John Gregory Betancourt SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY, by Edgar Allan Poe THE POWER OF WAKING, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman THE MUMMY’S FOOT, by Jessie Adelaide Middleton LOST IN A PYRAMID, OR THE MUMMY’S CURSE, by Louisa May Alcott THE RING OF THOTH, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle THE ROMANCE OF A MUMMY, by Théophile Gautier THE GREEN GOD, by William Call Spencer THE BOOK OF THOTH, by Lafcadio Hearn AN AZTEC MUMMY, by C. B. Cory LOT NO. 249, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle THE MUMMY’S FOOT, by Théophile Gautier THE STORY OF BAELBROW, by E. and H. Heron A PROFESSOR OF EGYPTOLOGY, by Guy Boothby MY NEW YEAR’S EVE AMONG THE MUMMIES, by Grant Allen WHATEVER WAS FORGOTTEN, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman THE FORSAKEN TEMPLE, by C. W. Leadbeater THE DOOM OF AL ZAMERI, by Henry Iliowizi OBSESSION, POSSESSION, by Elliott O’Donnell THE PERFUME OF EGYPT, by C. W. Leadbeater And don't forget to check out all the 300+ other volumes in the MEGAPACK® series! Search on MEGAPACK® in the ebook store to see the complete list...covering adventure stories, military, fantasy, ghost stories, and more!
The Mummy's Foot' is a gothic short story written by French writer, Théophile Gautier, author of 'Clarimonde'. The plot follows a man who buys a mummified foot in an antiques shop. It once belonged to an Egyptian princess, and it transpires that she wants it back. He is forced to make a deal. This is a classic short story in the genre and we a republishing it with a brand new introductory biography of the translator of the work, Lafcadio Hearn.
This journey into a child's imagination begins with the question, "What did you do on your vacation?" Not one to be upstaged by her "worldly" classmates, Shirley spins a wild tale of Egyptian adventure, which utilizes rock and roll and rap to explore the amazing value of one's imagination.
The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema. In this compelling new study, Basil Glynn explores the history of the Mummy film, uncovering lost and half-forgotten movies along the way, revealing the cinematic Mummy to be an astonishingly diverse and protean figure with a myriad of on-screen incarnations. In the course of investigating the enduring appeal of this most 'Oriental' of monsters, Glynn traces the Mummy's development on screen from its roots in popular culture and silent cinema, through Universal Studios' Mummy movies of the 1930s and 40s, to Hammer Horror's re-imagining of the figure in the 1950s, and beyond.
One curse. Three victims. A race against time. Edie My boyfriend is in a coma. And all we know is that there’s dark magic behind it. If we don’t figure out how to break him out, he could be comatose forever. Could the cursed Ancient Egyptian mummy who just woke up be the key to his freedom? Niamh I need to break the curse, but I also need to pay the bills. I’m pretty sure they won't accept ‘my best friend has been cursed’ as an excuse to default on the mortgage. Working on a building site isn’t my favourite thing to do, but it’s easy money. Or at least, I thought it was. Until I walked head-first into a poltergeist. I’ve avoided poltergeists for a decade. Ever since one killed my first husband. But with families moving in and no one else to exorcise the poltergeist, will what little power I have be enough to take him down? Will Niamh and Edie break the curse? Can their 4,000 year old friend help? Find out in the second instalment of the mother/daughter paranormal mystery series, Afterlife Calls.
First runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2015. In ancient Egypt, wrapping sacred objects, including mummified bodies, in layers of cloth was a ritual that lay at the core of Egyptian society. Yet in the modern world, attention has focused instead on unwrapping all the careful arrangements of linen textiles the Egyptians had put in place. This book breaks new ground by looking at the significance of textile wrappings in ancient Egypt, and at how their unwrapping has shaped the way we think about the Egyptian past. Wrapping mummified bodies and divine statues in linen reflected the cultural values attached to this textile, with implications for understanding gender, materiality and hierarchy in Egyptian society. Unwrapping mummies and statues similarly reflects the values attached to Egyptian antiquities in the West, where the colonial legacies of archaeology, Egyptology and racial science still influence how Egypt appears in museums and the press. From the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Arab Spring, Unwrapping Ancient Egypt raises critical questions about the deep-seated fascination with this culture – and what that fascination says about our own.
