Lot No. 249

"la mayoría se inclinará a pensar que es más probable que un cerebro aparentemente sano sufra una sutil deformación en su textura, algún extraño defecto en su funcionamiento, que el hecho de que se haya transgredido el camino de la Naturaleza, a pleno día, en un centro de enseñanza tan afamado como......more

1884 Oxford and a medical student buys up a bunch of Egyptian stuff at an auction – including lot no. 249: a mummy! Shortly after, the medical student’s (laughable) “enemies” start getting attacked by a mysterious assailant. Surely it’s not the mummy, what?? Arthur Conan Doyle may have written some......more

2.5 / 5 This was read for my Gothic Fiction class. And while I can appreciate how Arthur Conan Doyle was the first person to write a story about an evil mummy (thank you Google), and to do a good representation of how the Victorians were obsessed with mummies and Egypt, I just found this story a li......more

Although not horrifying by today's standards, this was still a clever little tale and was an interesting look at where more modern day mummy appearances got their roots.......more

Maio, 1884, Abercrombie Smith um estudante na universidade de Oxford, juntamente com mais dois amigos, moram em quartos separados numa ala da universalidade . Na ala de baixo da universidade habita um estudante de línguas orientais chamado Bellingham. Ele adquiriu num leilão um sarcófago, em cujo in......more