Mummy's Curse
The True History of a Dark Fantasy
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An interdisciplinary history looking at how Egypt, and the myth of the mummy's curse, fed into architecture, popular entertainments, theatres, newspapers and literature. It's a quirky and fascinating survey, providing a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions, with new and important readings of literary figures such as Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard and Algernon Blackwood.
In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular press went wild with rumours of a curse on those who disturbed the Pharaoh's rest and for years followed every twist and turn of the fate of the men who had been involved in the historic discovery. Long dismissed by Egyptologists, the mummy's curse remains a part of popular supernatural belief. Roger Luckhurst explores why the myth has captured the British imagination across the centuries, and how it has impacted on popular culture.
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