The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

Record summary

Jane Webb Loudon’s three-volume novel The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, published in 1827, uses the reanimated Egyptian mummy Cheops within a speculative Gothic and futuristic plot. It is relevant to apparition research because it shows how Egyptian remains, resurrection, and postmortem agency were imagined before the later Victorian mummy-curse cycle. The work is a novel rather than a report, and its supernatural mechanisms are literary inventions. Its precise relevance to Egyptian travel or local belief should not be overstated, since the narrative is primarily British speculative fiction.