Twenty classic stories of horror, adventure, and mystery with a focus on Egyptology. Stories include The Mummy's Foot (Theophile Gautier), Some Words with a Mummy (Edgar Allan Poe), Lost in a Pyramid (Louisa May Alcott), My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies (Grant Allen), The Ring of Thoth (Arthur Conan Doyle), Lot No. 249 (Doyle), A Professor of Egyptology (Guy Boothby), The Story of Baelbrow (E. and H. Heron), The Mysterious Mummy (Sax Rohmer), The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt (C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne), Mustapha (S. Baring-Gould), The Nemesis of Fire (Algernon Blackwood), Sand (Blackwood), Smith and the Pharaos (H. Rider Haggard), In the Valley of the Sorceress (Rohmer), The Death-Ring of Sneferu (Rohmer), The Wings of Horus (Blackwood), Lord of the Jackals (Rohmer), The Ape (E. F. Benson), and Black Coffee (Jeffery Farnol).