![]() ![]() Why did I waste my time reading this? Ok, I read Dracula when I was, maybe, 12 years old. So, no, Stoker didn't invent the genre - more likely he just took Gautier's story & turned it into a novel. In Stoker's story, the Princess is reunited w/ her hand by people experimenting w/ reincarnating her. In Gautier's story the Princess appears in his home & tries to reunite w/ her foot. In Stoker's story there's a severed hand of an Egyptian Princess. It's a short story about a man who buys the mummified severed foot of an Egyptian Princess in a curiousity shop. Theophile Gautier, a French author who died in 1872 (long before "The Jewel of Seven Stars" was written & published) wrote "One of Cleopatra's Nights", "The Evil Eye", &, most importantly, "The Mummy's Foot". ![]() 1st, let's get this misunderstanding out of the way that Bram Stoker invented the Mummy story ("the curse of the Egyptian mummy formula which it introduced" - Keith Deutsch's afterward in the edition I have "He did invent the Mummy story, and this is the book that started it." - a quote from another Goodreads review). ![]()
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