Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Creating Egypt in Victorian and Edwardian Fantastic Fiction -- 2.1 First and Second-Hand Experience with Ancient Egypt -- 2.1.1 The Role of the British Museum in Shaping the Perception of Ancient Egypt -- 2.2 Egypt as the "Other" -- 2.2.1 Qualities and Grades of "Otherness" -- 2.2.2 Perceptual and Discursive Imperialism -- 3. Representative Egyptianising Texts -- 3.1 Jane Loudon Webb's "The Mummy! A Tale of the T wenty-Second Century" (1827) -- 3.2 Edgar Allan Poe's "Some Words With a Mummy" (1845) -- 3.3 Louisa May Alcott's "Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse" (1869) -- 3.4 Grant Allen's "My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies" (1878) -- 3.5 Rider Haggard's "She" (1887) -- 3.6 Two Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde (1888 and 1891) -- 3.6.1 "The Happy Prince" (1888) -- 3.6.2 Oscar Wilde's "The Young King" (1891) -- 3.7 Two Egyptianising Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890 and 1892) -- 3.7.1 "The Ring of Thoth" (1890) -- 3.7.2 "Lot No. 249" (1892) -- 3.8 Bram Stoker's "The Jewel of Seven Stars" (1896) -- 3.9 Richard Marsh's "The Beetle - Strange Currencies" (1897) -- 3.10 E. and H. Heron's "The Story of Baelbrow" (1899) -- 3.11 Guy Boothby's "A Professor of Egyptology" (1904) -- 3.12 Cutcliffe Wright Hyne's "The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt" (1904) -- 3.13 Edith Nesbit's "The Story of the Amulet" (1906) -- 3.14 Rider Haggard's "Smith and the Pharaohs" (1912) -- 3.15 Three Short Stories by Algernon Blackwood (1908, 1912 and 1914) -- 3.15.1 Algernon Blackwood's "The Nemesis of Fire" (1908) -- 3.15.2 Algernon Blackwood's "Sand" (1912) -- 3.15.3 Algernon Blackwood's "A Descent into Egypt" (1914) -- 3.16 Closing Remarks -- 4. Loudon's "The Mummy!" - The Creation of a Genre -- 4.1 Political and Social Commentary in "The Mummy!".

4.2 Ancient and Modern Egypt in the Public Awareness in the 1820s and in "The Mummy!" -- 4.2.1 Cheops and Loudon's Egypt -- 4.2.2 Stereotyping the Arab -- 4.3 Secrets Unveiled -- 4.4 Giovanni Belzoni's Influence on "The Mummy!" and other Egyptianising Fantastic Fiction -- 4.5 The Mummy as the Monstrous "Other" and the Civilised "Self" -- 4.6 The Quest for Redemption -- 4.7 Criticism From an Outside Perspective -- 5. Major Themes in Nineteenth-Century and Early-Twentieth-Century Egyptianising Fantastic Fiction -- 5.1 Language and Intercultural Communication -- 5.2 Body Transformations in Egyptianising Texts -- 5.3 Vampiric Qualities of Ancient Egyptian Characters -- 5.4 Sleep and Dreams in Egyptianising Fantastic Fiction -- 5.5 Magic, Magical Objects and Secret Knowledge -- 6. The Appropriation of Ancient Egypt by the West -- 6.1 Theosophy, Freemasons and Secret Orders -- 6.2 Linking Ancient Egypt to Britain - Pyramidology -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations.