Icons of Horror: The MummyUnpublished

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Within a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into the future, and applied it to Cheops...

In this frightening novel, published in 1903, Stoker turns from one staple of horror--the vampire--to another:  the mummy, thus influencing every subsequent literary and film treatment of the subject, including the Universal classic,...

When five Egyptian statuettes are stolen from a museum, the Hardy Boys travel to exotic Egypt. En route, the boys are asked to safeguard a mysterious mummy and find themselves tangled in a web of international intrigue. On the Nile, the young detectives uncover a secret hiding place with...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Ramses the Great returns in this "darkly magical" (USA Today) novel from bestselling author Anne Rice "The reader is held captive and, ultimately, seduced."--San Francisco Chronicle Ramses the Great lives! ...

Jack and Annie find themselves whisked away to ancient Egypt, where they come face to face with a dead queen--and her 1,000-year-old mummy!