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Plot summary. After an expedition to Egypt with his colleague Professor Niles, Paul Forsyth returns to his fiancée Evelyn with a mysterious box of scarlet seeds. He warns her that the story of their origin will haunt her, but her naïve curiosity prevails.
At my desire, the mysterious plant was examined, and pronounced by the best authority one of the most deadly poisons known to the Egyptian sorceresses. The plant slowly absorbs the vitality of whoever cultivates it, and the blossom, worn for two or three hours, produces either madness or death."
Jul 27, 2019 · This tale of woe concerns a young couple; the groom has spent years in Egypt in tombs working on archeological expeditions, and his lovely bride inquires about seeds found on an Egyptian female mummy that his friend and colleague burned to attract attention after they managed to get themselves lost in a pyramid.
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Louisa May Alcott was thought by Dominic Montserrat to have been the first to use a fully formed "mummy curse" plot in her 1869 story Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse, a hitherto forgotten piece of mummy fiction that he rediscovered in the late 1990s.
Kindle $0.99. Rate this book. Lost in a Pyramid or the Mummy's Curse. Louisa May Alcott. 3.56. 319 ratings56 reviews. Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868). Extract:
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Jul 12, 2015 · Books. Lost in a Pyramid Or the Mummy's Curse. Louisa May Alcott. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Jul 12, 2015 - Fiction - 34 pages. Classic children's author Louisa...
This fascinating tale marks a milestone in world literature as being one of the first examples of the ‘mummy’s curse’ narrative. It follows Paul Forsyth and the older professor Niles as they explore ancient Egyptian ruins, haplessly disturbing the ancient peace of a powerful sorceress’ tomb.
