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PART ONE: CURSE STORIES; 1 King Tut and the dead Earl; Opening the Tomb; First Interpretations; 2 Precursor Stories I: Thomas Douglas Murray and 22542 (The Unlucky Mummy); 3 Precursor Stories II: Walter Ingram and the Coffin of Nesmin; PART TWO: CONTEXTS; 4 Egypt in London I: Immersive-Exotic Spaces; The Egyptian Hall, Belzoni’s Tomb and Mummy Pettigrew; The Exotic Panorama and the Theatrical Extravaganza; Bazaars, West End Shopping, and Exotic Consumption; 5 Egypt in London II: The Exhibitionary Universe; Egypt at the World’s Fairs; The British Museum in the Empire of Shadows; 6 The Curse Tale and the Egyptian Gothic; Learning to Curse; Plagues, Scarabs, and the Nuclear Option: The Golden Age of Egyptian Curse Stories; The Museum Gothic; Algernon Blackwood: Egypt Introjected; 7 Rider Haggard Among the Mummies; Rider Haggard’s Encounters with Egypt; Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Haggard and Major E. Arthur Haggard in Egypt; Rider Haggard’s Artefactual Fictions; 8 Evil Eyes, Punitive Currents and the Late Victorian Magic Revival; Late Victorian Hermeticism: Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society; The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Haute Magie and Low Comedy; Magical Thinking and Curse Logic; Closing in: The Evil Eye Looks Back; Afterword

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