The Mummy's Foot
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Originally published | September 1840 |
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Authors | Théophile Gautier |
Original title | "Le Pied de momie" |
Translator | Lafcadio Hearn |
Country | France |
Genres | Horror Fiction |
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ID | 2472278 |
About The Mummy's Foot
The Mummy's Foot is a gothic short story by the French writer Théophile Gautier, first published in 1840. It relates the fantastical tale of a contemporary man and the adventures which befall him when he ventures into a Parisian curiosity shop and buys the four-thousand-year-old foot of Princess Hermonthis.