Book· 1827· Science Fiction

: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

by Jane C. Webb Loudon

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A new 2026 scholarly study by John Lidwell-Durnin notes that The Mummy! was "identified by nearly every reviewer" as having been inspired by Frankenstein. One contemporary review explicitly compared its scenes of terror with those of Frankenstein. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/prognosis-and-scientific-imagination-in-the-work-of-jane-webb-loudon-18001858/3DE40B3A7E95A2DCB73F5BF894C026EE?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

It concerns the Egyptian mummy of Cheops, who is brought back to life in the year 2126. The novel describes a future filled with advanced technology, and was the first English-language story to feature a reanimated mummy.