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Call Your Mummy

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The pun is on you, the desiccated and execrated don't have mums. What they do have is the eternal burden of carrying plagues and such amongst the various peoples. In these modern 1980's, a mummificated corpse reanimated by curse can't casually careen down the street on Halloween night—at least not as their ancient swaddled self—but incognito! Ha, yes. A conveniently placed masquerade shop was near and the perfect disguise offered itself up. Though, to the mummy, it seemed vaguely familiar. Alas, his eyes were not what they used to be...

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From The Morgue

The bandaged monster arrived in 1932 on the back of a real craze — Howard Carter had opened the boy king's tomb ten years earlier and the newspapers had been running the curse story ever since, whether or not there was one. What Universal added was the ache: a creature who is not really hunting you so much as trying to get something back. Every mummy picture since is a story about a very old, very tired individual who would simply like his belongings returned.

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