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Book Review of The Mummy or Ramses the Damned

The Mummy or Ramses the Damned
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned
Author: Anne Rice
Genre: Horror
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


"The reader is held captive, and, ultimately, seduced."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger....