Various Abstracts From The Book

Chapter One

"Among the many accounts surrounding the sinking of the Titanic was one of an Egyptian mummy whose curse, they say, was responsible for the ships untimely demise.  The rather unlikely story begins in Luxor during the late 1890’s when a young Englishman, name unknown, purchases the coffin and enclosed mummy of a young Priestess of Amun-Ra. Having made arrangements for the mummy’s safe passage to England the said Englishman mysteriously disappears. Similarly, his travelling companions did not fare too well either, one soon died after leaving Luxor, another lost his arm in a shooting accident whilst a third lost his entire fortune in a catastrophic bank failure. The mummy’s curse had seemingly procured its first victims".

"With the untimely death of Lord Carnarvon the press soon took head of the warnings of Marie Corelli and began to champion the notion of a pharaoh’s curse, the majority of people forgetting that Carnarvon was not a well man from the outset, having been weakened considerably from a serious motoring accident in 1901. Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, commented that Lord Carnarvon's death had been caused by "elementals" created by Tutankhamun's priests to guard the royal tomb. He even suggested that mould found inside the tomb had been placed there deliberately to punish grave robbers"!