This early science-fiction work concerns an Egyptian mummy named Cheops, who is brought back in to life in the 22nd century. One of the earliest examples of undead mummies is The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, an 1827 novel written by Jane C.Stone, the Inca Mummy Girl episode of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the 2006 fantasy novel Freaks: Alive on the Inside by Annette Curtis Klause, and the 2011 video game The Next Big Thing by Pendulo Studios. The trend intensified throughout the late 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s: modern works of fiction featuring romanticized living mummies include the 1997 horror fiction novella Don't Tell Mummy by Tom B. However, the end of the 20th century saw the revival of interest in the "romantic mummy" archetype, starting with the 1989 novel The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice, which involved a sexual relationship between a benevolent male mummy and a female archaeologist.
Starting from the 1930s, the "romantic mummy" was supplanted by the "monster mummy", pioneered by Boris Karloff in the 1932 movie The Mummy mummies thus joined the pantheon of 19th century Gothic monsters, alongside Count Dracula and Frankenstein's monster. Everett the latter actually has the protagonist marry a mummy which takes on the form of a beautiful woman.
Rider Haggard, My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies by Grant Allen, The Unseen Man's Story by Julian Hawthorne, and Iras: A Mystery by H. Notable examples of this trend include The Mummy's Foot by Théophile Gautier, The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker, The Ring of Thoth by Arthur Conan Doyle, She: A History of Adventure and Smith and the Pharaohs by H. The first living mummies in fiction were mostly female, and they were presented in a romantic and sexual light, often as love interests for the protagonist this metaphorically represented the sexualized Orientalism and the colonial romanticization of the East. The mummy genre has its origins in the 19th century when Egypt was being colonized by France and, subsequently, by Victorian Britain. Similar undead include skeletons and zombies. Mummies are commonly featured in horror genres as undead creatures wrapped in bandages. 249" an 1892 Gothic horror short story by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Undead monster An illustration by Martin van Maële of the mummy from " Lot No.
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