Victorian Mummy Curses – Professor Roger Luckhurst

Everyone knows the story of the Earl of Carnarvon and the alleged curse of Tutankhamen, but the sensational press coverage of the Earl’s death in 1923 had been long prepared by 2 prior cases of Victorian gentlemen alleged to have been cursed by artefacts. The cases of Thomas Douglas Murray and Walter Herbert Ingram lead us into the heart of British establishment — and the rumour of their dreadful fates known to many in political, military, artistic and occult circles. Come and listen to their true stories!

Roger Luckhurst is a professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (Oxford UP, 2012)