ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Starting from the 1930s, the “romantic mummy” was supplanted by the “monster mummy", pioneered by Boris Karloff in the 1932 movie The Mummy; mummies thus joined the pantheon of 19th century Gothic monsters, alongside Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mummies have often been used in horror fiction, depicted as undead creatures seeking revenge against those who defiled their tombs. They have also been used in other forms of media such as comic books and video games.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ancient Egyptians mummified animals as well as humans, including cats, ibis, hawks, snakes, crocodiles and dogs. Sometimes they were buried with their owner, or as a food supply for the afterlife, but the most common animal mummies were offerings, bought by visitors to temples to present to the gods.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mummies are creatures inspired from the funerary practices of Egyptian mythology and are deceased pharaohs. The reanimated mummy monster concept first originated in Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story “Lot No. 249” in 1892.