Tony Walker

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13,674 appearances 24 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

Tony Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Classic Ghost Stories · Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse by Lousia May Alcot · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

The curse that had bided its time for ages was fulfilled at last, and her own hand wrecked her happiness forever. podcast-host

Death in life was her doom, and for years Forsythe secluded himself to tend with pathetic despair. podcast-host

with devotion the pale ghost who never by word or look could thank him for the love that outlived even such a fate as this. podcast-host

So that was Lost in a Pyramid by or the Mummy's Curse by Louisa May Olcott. podcast-host

So it was published just under the initials LMA in the American periodical Frank Leslie's The New World on the 16th of January 1869. podcast-host

And it's now generally regarded as one of the earliest fully developed mummy curse tales in English. podcast-host

You know, we've been having a run of mummy. podcast-host

stories and the point being made was the early ones which came out sort of at the beginning of the nineteenth century. podcast-host

So what happened was Napoleon went into Egypt, opened it up, went with illustrators, uh started bringing back pictures podcast-host

created a great wave of uh Egyptomania in the West and uh then they started writing stories about mummies. podcast-host

Originally they were kind of romantic stories, a lot of the early stories going on into the nineteenth century about some kind of romantic love interests. podcast-host

You find this of course, because Dracula was reworked like that as well, wasn't it? podcast-host

About a a historical love interest, but uh and he's not a mummy. podcast-host

But but you know what I mean? podcast-host

This was the theme of them and podcast-host

Reincarnation was a big theme and the mystery of Egypt. podcast-host

And that went on, even if you read something like uh Algernon Blackwood's The Descent into Egypt, it's a very mystical story about the power of the past to possess. podcast-host

And in Blackwood, of course, Blackwood's very interested in how the world can um basically gobble up the soul of um I'm simplifying a little bit, but it the the man on the trees loved to podcast-host

same thing uh about the the the the great powers of the natural world which are superhuman or they're not necessarily personified or if they are they're in a strange way they're almost archetypal aren't they how they uh gobble up or they um attenuate and dilute and eat eat the souls of the people so there's a big th theme of that in Egyptology in Egypt stories podcast-host

But then in the middle of the 19th century, this idea of the mummy's curse starts coming out. podcast-host

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