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A young lawyer, Malcolm Ross, is summoned at night by Margaret Trelawny, whose father, the Egyptologist Abel Trelawny, has been found unconscious in his…
A young lawyer, Malcolm Ross, is summoned at night by Margaret Trelawny, whose father, the Egyptologist Abel Trelawny, has been found unconscious in his room, attacked by something unseen. The house is filled with treasures from the tomb of an ancient Egyptian queen, Tera, whose mummy and magical jewel, a ruby carved with the seven stars of the Plough, her father plans to use in a great experiment to bring her back to life.
Context and significance
Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, published the novel in 1903; it is one of the first stories of a mummy's curse, and its original ending was so grim that it was softened in a later edition. Compare Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.
About the author
Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was born in Dublin, a sickly child confined to bed until he was seven, who grew into a university athlete. He worked as a civil servant and an unpaid theatre critic, until his admiration for the actor Henry Irving led him to London, where for twenty-seven years he managed Irving's Lyceum Theatre.
In his spare time he wrote novels and stories, and after years of research into folklore and Eastern Europe published Dracula in 1897. It was only moderately successful in his lifetime, but it gave the modern world its image of the vampire. His widow published Dracula's Guest after his death.