Lot No. 249

When Ambercrombie Smith, a young medical student at Oxford, is summoned to the room of fellow student Bellingham—a fanatical Egyptologist, who appears to have fainted owing to a severe shock— he uses his medical skills to revive him. But this is by no means the last odd incident involving Bellingham, who appears to be increasingly obsessed with research surrounding a strange and uncanny Mummy which he keeps in his room.

A series of unexplained and dangerous attacks on students against whom Bellingham has a grudge make Abercrombie Smith suspect that something unearthly is going on. He sets out to get to the bottom of the mystery.