Tony Walker

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

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

And the other thing to say, of course, jumping back slightly, I'm in a jumpy mood. podcast-host

I'm also in a very grumpy mood, but I'm in a jumpy mood. podcast-host

So what I wanted to say was how this story particularly is has had a second or even a third lease of life in the 21st century. podcast-host

It's become much more popular. podcast-host

Um we can maybe talk about that and probably will later on. podcast-host

Anyway, she writes this in uh this hinge period in podcast-host

Her career from 1868 to 1869. podcast-host

So she's drafting and publishing Little Women and Good Wives and the sequel Good Wives. podcast-host

And publicly, this is the fa phase when she's becoming the great moral chronicler of New England girlhood, right? podcast-host

So this is she's like a uh you know a stand-up sort of person about how one ought to behave if one is good, and um podcast-host

Um privately though, she's finished a very long lucrative spell in churning out anonymous or pseudonymous, easy for you to say, sensation pieces for magazines, melodramas of adultery, revenge, disguise and the supernatural, often under the byline A.M. podcast-host

Barnard. podcast-host

And critics usually class Lost in a Pyramid of one of these uh thrillers, one of the last ones. podcast-host

uh it gives her double interest on the one hand it shows how far she could wander undercover initials from the domestic pieties that made her famous and fair enough you know um m a lot of authors have this we we do a lot of Conan Doll thing we did Conan Doll last week with his mummy story one of his mummy stories I've done two of them now um and he on the one hand is Sherlock Holmes you're writing basically what he considers low brow fiction and he wants to write podcast-host

You know, more uh respectable historical novels, and people are going, No, we want your lowbrow. podcast-host

Uh well, in in Louisa May's um case, they wanted her slightly higher brow stuff that had good messages for good people, but but what was making her the cash, or what what you know, and it you know, in the long run, perhaps the good stuff I mean little women probably made more money. podcast-host

I'm not sure how. podcast-host

How much money she made out of it? podcast-host

Somebody will tell me in the comments. podcast-host

But you know, this trash stuff that she's writing, the shockers, um, the titillators, um podcast-host

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