Mummy (undead)

History

Literature

• 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. Loudon. This early science-fiction work concerns an Egyptian mummy named Cheops, who is brought back in to life in the 22nd century.
• The Mummy's Foot by Théophile Gautier concerns a ghostly Egyptian princess who, hoping to recover her lost foot, takes the protagonist on a journey through time to her homeland.
• Some Words with a Mummy by Edgar Allan Poe is another early example of a story about a resurrected mummy, though played for satire instead of horror.
• Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse by Louisa May Alcott is an early example of the "mummy's curse" genre.
• Lot No. 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle has been called "...the first to depict a reanimated mummy as a sinister, dangerous creature." Doyle's 1890 short story The Ring of Thoth also features a mummy, though of a more benevolent nature.
• The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker is an early tale of possession by a mummy.
• Imprisoned with the Pharaohs attributed to illusionist Harry Houdini but ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft, tells the first-person story of Houdini's encounter with a mummified cult in a hidden temple beneath the Great Sphinx of Giza.
• Several short stories by Seabury Quinn featured resurrected mummies, including The Grinning Mummy, The Bleeding Mummy, The Dead-Alive Mummy, and The Man in Crescent Terrace.
• Monkeys by E. F. Benson tells the tale of a doctor whose visions of monkeys dovetails into legends of mummies in ancient Egypt.
• Out of the Aeons by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald links a mysterious mummy to his Cthulhu Mythos.
• Eyes of the Mummy by Robert Bloch reverses the typical "possession" narrative established in The Jewel of Seven Stars by having the protagonist's consciousness transferred into a mummy's body. It was included in the author's 1945 collection of stories The Opener of the Way.
• The Vengeance of Ali by August Derleth and Mark Schorer, eventually anthologized in Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People, features a vengeance-minded mummy.
• EC Comics' series Tales from the Crypt, The Haunt of Fear, and The Vault of Horror featured mummies in their stories. Tales from the Crypt #33 revealed that the Crypt-Keeper's parents are a 4,000-year-old female Egyptian mummy and a two-headed corpse.
• Marvel Comics has its own mummies including N'Kantu, the Living Mummy.
• The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice tells the story of an immortal mummy revived by Edwardian era archaeologists. It was followed in 2017 by a.
• The mummies are featured in The Kane Chronicles.
• The Goosebumps franchise featured mummies in its different stories.
• * The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb featured an assortment of mummies.
• * Return of the Mummy featured the Mummy of Prince Kho-ru who was the fictional cousin of King Tut.
• * Diary of a Mad Mummy featured the Mummy of King Buthramaman.
• * The Mummy Walks featured the Mummy of Emperor Pukrah of Jekeziah.
• * The Tales to Give You Goosebumps story "Don't Wake Mummy" featured a mummy. The television adaption of this episode also featured the mummy's cat.
• * Who's Your Mummy featured an assortment of mummies.

  Television

• Robot mummies were featured in a Doctor Who episode Pyramids of Mars, while the Hammer Horror film series had also included what had become a stock genre character.
• In 1966, Mummy Man was a revived ancient creature that attacked a research facility. His demise led to the summoning of Dodongo in episode 12 of Ultraman.
• The two 1970-71 TV series Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Groovie Goolies feature a character named Mummy who is one of the Groovie Goolies.
• The 1980 TV series Drak Pack features a super-strong mummy named Mummyman who is a member of the evil organization OGRE.
• The 1990 TV series Gravedale High features mummy characters like Cleofatra and Mr. Tutner.
• In Big Bad Beetleborgs, the character Mums is a mummy that resides at Hillhurst.
• The anime franchise for Digimon features Mummymon.
• The main protagonist of the 2003-2008 TV series Tutenstein is a re-awakened mummy.
• In the Ben 10 franchise, there is a race of alien mummies called Thep Khufans. Ben Tennyson's alien form Snare-oh is a Thep Khufan.
• Some Mummy Monsters appeared in Super Sentai:
• * In Seiju Sentai Gingaman, the monster Morgumorgu is a mummy-themed monster. In Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, the monster was adapted as Crumummy.
• * In Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive, the monster Zombeast is a mummy-themed Psyma Beast. In Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, the monster was used for one of the unidentified defeated demons in the Shadow World.
• * In Mahou Sentai Magiranger, the villain Sorcery Priest Meemy is a mummy. In Power Rangers Mystic Force, he is adapted as Imperious.
• * In Tensou Sentai Goseiger, the monster Zeibu of the Mummy is a mummy-like creature with centipede-like features. In Power Rangers Megaforce, he is adapted as Mummy, who is one of the illusions of the monster Distractor.
• In Ugly Americans, there are mummies living in Manhattan. One Mummy is revealed to be the mother of Francis Grimes as seen in "Mummy Dearest."
• The Jim Henson Company's "Henson Alternative" banner had different mummy characters:
• * In Late Night Liars, the character William A. Mummy is one of the main characters. He is a flamboyant mummy who Shelley Oceans' ex-wife and a parody of Paul Lynde.
• * In No, You Shut Up!, Andy Al-Jizah is a mummy who is the President of the AAMRP.
• In Jake and the Neverland Pirates, some people believe that the crook and flail has the power to bring mummies to life.
• The anime series Monster Musume features Mummies where they are depicted as a subspecies of the Zombies. As the desert environments have made their skin dry, the Mummies must take long baths to replenish their fluids and even do this by sucking the life force out of humans to supplement their beauty as a placebo.
• The TV series OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'' features the character Ms. Mummy who is a regular of the Lake Plaza Turbo where she lives behind "Gar's Hero Supply & Bodega."

  Film

• One of the earliest appearances was The Jewel of Seven Stars, a horror novel by Bram Stoker first published in 1903 that concerned an archaeologist's plot to revive an ancient Egyptian mummy. This book later served as the basis for the 1971 film Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, the 1980 film The Awakening and the 1997 direct-to-video film Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy.
• Films representing such a belief include the 1932 movie The Mummy starring Boris Karloff as Imhotep; four subsequent 1940s' Universal Studios mummy films which featured a mummy named Kharis, and a 1959 Hammer remake of The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb, which also featured Kharis. The belief in cursed mummies probably stems in part from the supposed curse on the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• In 1979, the American Broadcasting Company aired a TV holiday show, The Halloween That Almost Wasn't, in which a mummy from Egypt arrived at Count Dracula's castle without speaking.
• Slapstick comedy trio The Three Stooges humorously exploited the discovery in the short film We Want Our Mummy, in which they explored the tomb of the midget King Rutentuten. A decade later, they played crooked used chariot salesmen in Mummy's Dummies, in which they ultimately assisted a different King Rootentootin with a toothache.
• Comedy duo Abbott and Costello, as part of their series crossing over with the Universal Monsters, encountered a mummy named Klaris in 1955's Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.
• A Mummy was featured in the film Mad Monster Party?. He does not speak and is among the monsters invited to Baron Boris von Frankenstein's castle on the Isle of Evil. The Mummy's sarcophagus was carried to Baron Frankenstein's castle by the Hunchback of Notre Dame. In one scene, the Mummy dances with the Monster's Mate to "Do the Mummy" by Little Tibia and the Fibias.
• A Mummy was featured in Mad Mad Mad Monsters, voiced by Allen Swift. He is among the monsters invited by Baron Henry von Frankenstein to attend the wedding of the Frankenstein Monster and his Bride at the Transylvania Astoria Hotel on Friday the 13th.
• The Disney Channel film Under Wraps featured a mummy that was named Harold.
• The Halloweentown franchise featured different mummies.
• A new Hollywood series of films featuring an immortal undead High Priest began with The Mummy in 1999. The film was a box-office success and was followed by two sequels, The Mummy Returns in 2001 and ' in 2008. The first two movies featured the mummy of Imhotep and the third movie featured the mummy of Emperor Han.
• The Night at the Museum franchise centers around the tablet of Ahkmenrah, intended to keep his family together forever, by granting life to his mummy. Later, his parents are also seen in ' with the tablet providing similar effects. Unlike in most portrayals of mummies, the magic is so thorough that the mummies are restored to full life-like appearance, as opposed to simple reanimation.
• The Hotel Transylvania franchise features Murray the Mummy as one of the main characters. In addition, there was also a female mummy that made background cameos.
• The 2017 film The Mummy features the mummy of Ahmanet.

  Video games

• In the PlayStation and PC versions of Breakout, a Mummy is the boss of the Egyptian Lair as Bouncer must rescue one of his friends from the Mummy.
• The Kirby series features the recurring mummy-based enemy Mumbies. It appears to be a floating ball of bandages who follows the player character when he or she looks the opposite direction. The series later has another mummy enemy named Mummbon in Kirby Mass Attack.
• The Mario franchise has different mummies:
• * The video games ' and Luigi's Mansion 3 have mummies that are enemies. They are depicted as ghosts who are wrapped in mummy tape. The ghost Serpci in Luigi's Mansion 3 is the mummy of an ancient pharaoh.
• The video game ' features mummy versions of Toads called Mummy-Me.
• In the Age of Mythology video games, the Mummies are part of the Egyptian faction's Myth Units and are associated with Osiris.
• The Warcraft franchise have mummies that are part of the Scourge. These mummies are mummified versions of creatures from other races that are reanimated through necromancy. The trolls and the nerubians are known to mummify their dead.
• The video game Moe Chronicle features an unnamed female mummy.
• In the game MediEvil, mummies are enemies that Sir Dan must kill. In its sequel MediEvil 2, there is a blue-skinned mummy named Princess Kiya who is Dan's love interest.
• In the fighting game Killer Instinct, there is an immortal mummy named Kan-Ra.
• The Legend of Zelda features recurrent mummy-like enemies called Gibdo. featured an enemy known as a ReDead Knight, which combined features from Gibdo and ReDeads.
• In ARMS, one of the playable characters is a mummy named Master Mummy.
• Mummified versions of different humanoid races, such as humans, dwarves and elves, appear as enemies in NetHack.
• In Terraria, mummies are hostile creatures which appear in deserts.
• In the Just Dance game series mummies are featured as playable coaches in the Just Dance 3's map Night Boat To Cairo and in the Just Dance 2019's map Mi Mi Mi both as a playable coach and as background elements.

  Toys

• In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, there are Mummies that are undead creatures and sometimes playable characters throughout its editions and come in various types like Bog Mummies, Clay Mummies, Greater Mummies, Hunefers, Ice Mummies, Mummy Lords, and Salt Mummies.
• Lego is shown to have different Mummy minifigures:
• * Lego Minifigures is shown to have a Mummy as part of its series three. This Mummy later appeared in The Lego Movie. He is among the Master Builders that meet in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
• * Lego Monster Fighters features The Mummy who roams the desert roads of the Monster Realm at night on his chariot pulled by fire-eyed skeleton horse. This Mummy later appeared in The Lego Batman Movie. He alongside Lord Vampyre and the Swamp Creature appear as inmates of the Phantom Zone.
• * Lego Pharaoh's Quest features the Mummy of Amset-Ra, a Mummy Warrior, a Flying Mummy, and a Snake Charmer Mummy. The minifigures for the Mummy of Amset-Ra and a Mummy Warrior have double-sided heads.
• In the Monster High franchise, Cleo de Nile and Nefera de Nile are known mummies who are the daughters of the mummy Ramses de Nile.
• In the Masters of the Universe Classics toyline, there is a mummy villain named Wrap Trap who is enthralled to the Evil Horde.