Ramses the Damned · Book 1
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 436
- ISBN-13
- 9781627155908
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned, published in 1989, opens the series as a 436-page standalone by Anne Rice, in which a pharaoh revived by an elixir of eternal life awakens in Edwardian London and falls for the woman who discovers him.
Its place in Ramses the Damned
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned is book 1 in the Ramses the Damned series. It is followed by Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra. See the full Ramses the Damned reading order.
Ramses the Damned began as a 1989 standalone from Anne Rice -- The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned -- in which an Egyptian pharaoh who drank an elixir of eternal life millennia ago awakens in Edwardian London after being revived by a museum exhibit, and falls in love with the young woman who discovers him. Rice left the story there for nearly three decades, until she returned to it with her son, novelist Christopher Rice, for Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra (2017), which brings Ramses' immortal circle up…
Editions
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