Tony Walker
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first heard Apr 2026
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Classic Ghost Stories · Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse by Lousia May Alcot · 11 Sep 2026
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The plant slowly absorbs the vitality of whoever cultivates it, and the blossom, worn for two or three hours,
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Hours produces either madness or death.
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Down dropped the paper from Forsythe's hand.
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He read no further, but hurried back into the room where he'd left his young wife as if worn out with fatigue.
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She had thrown herself upon a couch and lay there motionless, her face half hidden by the light folds of the veil which had blown over it.
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Evelyn, my dearest, wait.
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Wake up and answer me.
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U did you wear that strange flower today?
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whispered Forsythe, putting the misty screen away.
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There was no need for her to answer, for there, gleaming spectrally on her bosom was the evil blossom, its white petals spotted now with flecks of scarlet, vivid as drops of newly spilt blood.
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But the unhappy bridegroom scarcely saw it, for the face above it appalled him by its utter vacancy.
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Drawn and pallid as if with some wasting malady, the young face so lovely an hour ago lay before him, aged and blighted by the baleful influence of the plant which had drunk up her life.
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No recognition in the eyes, no
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No word upon the lips, no motion of the hand, only the faint breath, the fluttering pulse, the wide opened eyes betrayed that she was alive.
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Alas for the young wife, the superstitious fear at which she had smiled had proved true.
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The curse that had bided its time for ages was fulfilled at last, and her own hand wrecked her happiness forever.
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Death in life was her doom, and for years Forsythe secluded himself to tend with pathetic despair.
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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.
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So that was Lost in a Pyramid by or the Mummy's Curse by Louisa May Olcott.
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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.
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