Jonathan Lewis has collected together a heady batch of short stories and excerpts of Egyptian mysticism and the supernatural, tales of mummies and reincarnation from such renown authors as Bram Stoker, Sax Rohmer, H. Rider Haggard. E. Hoffmann Price and Algernon Blackwood. Each story is placed into its proper historical context, showing how each helped build the ancient Egyptian supernatural fiction subgenre within the realm of weird and fantastic fiction.

Here you will encounter Edgar Allan Poe's trenchant satire, "Some Words With a Mummy;" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Lot...