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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is the fifth book in the Goosebumps book series. It was first published in 1993, and was later followed-up by the twenty-third book, Return of the Mummy.

The original 1993 cover illustration shows a mummy with glowing red eyes.

Blurb

SOMETHING DEAD HAS BEEN HERE...

Gabe just got lost--in a pyramid. One minute, his crazy cousin Sari was right ahead of him in the pyramid tunnel. The next minute, she'd disappeared. But Gabe isn't alone. Someone else is in the pyramid, too. Someone. Or some thing. Gabe doesn't believe in the curse of the mummy's tomb. But that doesn't mean that the curse isn't real. Does it?

Plot

Gabe is spending his Christmas vacation in Egypt because his parents have business to attend to there. While staying in their hotel in Al-Jizah, Gabe's parents receive an emergency phone call and have to rush to Alexandria. Rather than going with his parents, Gabe is given the option to stay with his uncle Ben, who is a scientist investigating pyramids in Cairo. Gabe's parents call Uncle Ben and leave. While Gabe waits for his uncle to arrive, he clutches his good luck charm, The Summoner, a mummy's hand that he bought a few years ago at a garage sale. Uncle Ben and his daughter, Sari, arrive. Ben informs Gabe that his archaeologists team has discovered underground tunnels beneath the pyramid, but he also says that the tunnels would be too dangerous for Gabe to explore alone.

The next day, Ben and the children go to the pyramid. While preparing to enter the pyramid, Ben warns the kids that his team may have unleashed an ancient curse by exploring the pyramid. Armed with flashlights, the three relatives enter the pyramid and walk for a while. The trio makes there way through a tight corridor to a large room. Ahmed and various other members of Ben's team are already there. While Ben is distracted, Sari suggests to Gabe that they go exploring on their own. Gabe is reluctant, but Sari insists, confidently saying that they won't get lost. Gabe follows Sari into the tunnels, but Sari quickly vanishes from his view. Convinced that he's being pranked, Gabe continues walking. When Gabe enters a small room, Sari scares him and starts to laugh, causing Uncle Ben to appear. Ben joins Sari in laughter.

The next morning, during breakfast, Ben receives a phone call. Apparently, almost all of Ben's workers have become ill, so he goes and visits them. Though the kids were warned to stay in the hotel, Gabe proposes that they go to a nearby museum by themselves. The kids go to the museum and wander through it. After a few minutes, Ahmed appears. They try to avoid him, but he's too fast. He says that Ben told him to take the kids back to their room in the hotel. Ahmed takes the kids to his car, but he starts driving in the opposite direction of the hotel. Gabe realizes that Ahmed is kidnapping them. Gabe warns Sari, and the two sprint out of the car. After asking a cab driver for help, the duo makes it back to the hotel and stay in their room until Ben arrives. When he does, the kids tell him what happened. Ben says that he has to return to the pyramid to continue his exploration. For safety, Ben takes Gabe and Sari with him to the chamber.

A few minutes after they enter the pyramid, Gabe stops to tie his shoe. When he looks up, he sees that Uncle Ben and Sari have disappeared. After searching for a while, the floor cracks beneath Gabe, and he falls through, landing in a big room filled with mummy-preparation tools. Sari appears in the room, and she says she also got lost. The two kids call Uncle Ben via a pager that Ben provided them with. A few seconds after Sari calls her father, the kids see a light coming through a tunnel. The kids hope that Ben has arrived, but the light turns out to be coming from of Ahmed, who is carrying a torch.

Ahmed says that he warned Ben about a curse, but Ben didn't believe him. He then says that the kids violated the sacred chamber of an ancient Egyptian princess named Khala, and, because of that, they should die. He grabs a knife and starts approaching the kids, but Ben suddenly appears and tries to stop him. Ahmed swings his torch at Ben and hits him in the head. Ahmed heaves the torch across the room, and it falls into the room's tar pit. The tar starts burning. The kids watch helplessly as Ahmed closes Ben's body in a sarcophagus, and he puts the kids in a separate sarcophagus. Luckily, Egyptians built hidden escape hatches into their coffins to allow the souls of the deceased to escape, so the three relatives are able to escape while Ahmed is distracted. The trio tries to exit, but they are stopped by Ahmed, who threatens them with his dagger. He forces them to walk toward the tar pit. Ahmed tells Ben and the kids that they'll have to jump into the pit. Terrified, Gabe pulls out the mummy's hand from his pocket. When Ahmed sees it, he recognizes it as the Hand of the Priestess. All of the mummies in the room to come alive and begin surrounding him. Some of the mummies grab Ahmed and try to throw him into the pit. Gabe looks away. However, when he looks back, he sees that the mummies have returned to their original spots, and Ahmed is running away.

Relieved, Ben and the children go back to their hotel room. Gabe pulls out the mummy's hand and pretends he's summoning ancient spirits. He is startled to hear a knock on the door, which he suspects to be a mummy. When he opens the door, Gabe sees his parents, who are back from Alexandria.

Reprints and rereleases

Book	Release date	Type	Media
2003 - 2007 reprint series	September 2003	Standalone	Paperback
Vanishing Collection	November 2004	Collection	Paperback
Classic Goosebumps	February 2009	Standalone	Paperback

Differences

The Classic Goosebumps reprint was released as a tie-in to the sixth Goosebumps HorrorLand book, Who's Your Mummy?.

International releases

Gallery

Differences

In the UK, this is the fourth book in the original series.
In Portugal, this is the sixteenth book in the original Goosebumps series.

Merchandise

Audiobook

Audiobook	Release date	Length	Narrated by	Published by
	April 2015	3 hours, 20 minutes	Kirby Heyborne	Scholastic Inc.

Artwork

Conceptual

Trivia

This was inadvertently the first Goosebumps book to feature a character with a widowed parent. It was mentioned later on in Return of the Mummy that Sari's mother passed away when she was five.
The mummy on the cover is often mistaken for Prince Khor-Ru from Return of the Mummy.
This book references Game Boy, Super Mario Land, Indiana Jones, Silly Putty, Coca-Cola Classic, New Coke, CNN, Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Frosted Flakes and Tony the Tiger.
This book's title shares the same name as the 1964 horror film The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb.
Uncle Ben is exploring the pyramid of the pharaoh Khufu; however, it's unclear if Stine is making a reference to the actual Khufu or not.
First editions of this book do not feature a number on the spine.
This is one of few Goosebumps books set around Christmastime.
This is one of few Goosebumps books that have a happy ending.

References in other Goosebumps media

Mummies from this book appear in the Goosebumps film.
This book is referenced in Goosebumps: The Game as the name of an arcade game in the mall.
This book shares its name with the first level of Goosebumps HorrorTown.

Goosebumps series

#01 Welcome to Dead House	#22 Ghost Beach	#43 The Beast from the East
#02 Stay Out of the Basement	#23 Return of the Mummy	#44 Say Cheese and Die — Again!
#03 Monster Blood	#24 Phantom of the Auditorium	#45 Ghost Camp
#04 Say Cheese and Die!	#25 Attack of the Mutant	#46 How to Kill a Monster
#05 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb	#26 My Hairiest Adventure	#47 Legend of the Lost Legend
#06 Let's Get Invisible!	#27 A Night in Terror Tower	#48 Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns
#07 Night of the Living Dummy	#28 The Cuckoo Clock of Doom	#49 Vampire Breath
#08 The Girl Who Cried Monster	#29 Monster Blood III	#50 Calling All Creeps!
#09 Welcome to Camp Nightmare	#30 It Came from Beneath the Sink!	#51 Beware, the Snowman
#10 The Ghost Next Door	#31 Night of the Living Dummy II	#52 How I Learned to Fly
#11 The Haunted Mask	#32 The Barking Ghost	#53 Chicken Chicken
#12 Be Careful What You Wish For...	#33 The Horror at Camp Jellyjam	#54 Don't Go to Sleep!
#13 Piano Lessons Can Be Murder	#34 Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes	#55 The Blob That Ate Everyone
#14 The Werewolf of Fever Swamp	#35 A Shocker on Shock Street	#56 The Curse of Camp Cold Lake
#15 You Can't Scare Me!	#36 The Haunted Mask II	#57 My Best Friend Is Invisible
#16 One Day at HorrorLand	#37 The Headless Ghost	#58 Deep Trouble II
#17 Why I'm Afraid of Bees	#38 The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena	#59 The Haunted School
#18 Monster Blood II	#39 How I Got My Shrunken Head	#60 Werewolf Skin
#19 Deep Trouble	#40 Night of the Living Dummy III	#61 I Live in Your Basement!
#20 The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight	#41 Bad Hare Day	#62 Monster Blood IV
#21 Go Eat Worms!	#42 Egg Monsters from Mars

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 '''''The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb''''' is the fifth book in the ''[[Goosebumps (original series)|Goosebumps]]'' book series. It was first published in [[1993]], and was later followed-up by the twenty-third book, ''[[Return of the Mummy]]''.
-The cover illustration shows a mummy with glowing red eyes.
+The original 1993 cover illustration shows a [[Mummies|mummy]] with glowing red eyes.
 ==Blurb==
+<span style="font-family: Futura Condensed, Medium Condensed, Oswald; color: #E17B2E; font-size:18pt;">''SOMETHING DEAD HAS BEEN HERE...''</span>
-<big>''Something Dead Has Been Here...''</big>
 Gabe just got lost--in a pyramid. One minute, his crazy cousin Sari was right ahead of him in the pyramid tunnel. The next minute, she'd disappeared. But Gabe isn't alone. Someone else is in the pyramid, too. Someone. Or some ''thing''. Gabe doesn't believe in the curse of the mummy's tomb. But that doesn't mean that the curse isn't real. Does it?
 ==Plot==
-[[Gabe Sabry|Gabe]] is spending his Christmas vacation in [[Wikipedia: Egypt|Egypt]] because his parents have business to attend to there. While staying in their hotel in Al-Jizah, Gabe's parents receive an emergency phone call and have to rush to [[Wikipedia: Alexandria|Alexandria]]. Rather than going with his parents, Gabe asks to stay with his uncle [[Ben Hassad|Ben]], who is a scientist that is investigating pyramids in Cairo. Gabe's parents call Uncle Ben and leave. While Gabe waits for his uncle to arrive, he clutches his good luck charm: a mummy's hand that he bought a few years ago. Uncle Ben and his daughter, [[Sari Hassad|Sari]], arrive. He informs Gabe that his archaeologists team has discovered underground tunnels beneath the pyramid, but he also says that the tunnels would be too dangerous for Gabe to explore alone.
+[[Gabe Sabry|Gabe]] is spending his Christmas vacation in [[Wikipedia: Egypt|Egypt]] because his parents have business to attend to there. While staying in their hotel in Al-Jizah, Gabe's parents receive an emergency phone call and have to rush to [[Wikipedia: Alexandria|Alexandria]]. Rather than going with his parents, Gabe is given the option to stay with his uncle [[Ben Hassad|Ben]], who is a scientist investigating pyramids in Cairo. Gabe's parents call Uncle Ben and leave. While Gabe waits for his uncle to arrive, he clutches his good luck charm, [[The Summoner]], a mummy's hand that he bought a few years ago at a garage sale. Uncle Ben and his daughter, [[Sari Hassad|Sari]], arrive. Ben informs Gabe that his archaeologists team has discovered underground tunnels beneath the pyramid, but he also says that the tunnels would be too dangerous for Gabe to explore alone.
 The next day, Ben and the children go to the pyramid. While preparing to enter the pyramid, Ben warns the kids that his team may have unleashed an ancient curse by exploring the pyramid. Armed with flashlights, the three relatives enter the pyramid and walk for a while. The trio makes there way through a tight corridor to a large room. [[Ahmed]] and various other members of Ben's team are already there. While Ben is distracted, Sari suggests to Gabe that they go exploring on their own. Gabe is reluctant, but Sari insists, confidently saying that they won't get lost. Gabe follows Sari into the tunnels, but Sari quickly vanishes from his view. Convinced that he's being pranked, Gabe continues walking. When Gabe enters a small room, Sari scares him and starts to laugh, causing Uncle Ben to appear. Ben joins Sari in laughter.
-The next morning, during breakfast, Ben receives a phone call. Apparently, almost all of Ben's workers have become ill, so he goes and visits them. Though the kids were warned to stay in the hotel, Gabe proposes that they go to a nearby museum by themselves. The kids go to the museum and wander through it. A a few minutes, Ahmed appears. They try to avoid him, but he's too fast. He says that Ben told him to take the kids back to their room in the hotel. Ahmed takes the kids to his car, but he starts driving in the opposite direction of the hotel. Gabe realizes that Ahmed is kidnapping them. Gabe warns Sari, and the two sprint out of the car. After asking a cab driver for help, the duo makes it back to the hotel and stay in their room until Ben arrives. When he does, the kids tell him what happened. Ben says that he has to return to the pyramid to continue his exploration. For safety, Ben takes Gabe and Sari with him to the chamber.
+The next morning, during breakfast, Ben receives a phone call. Apparently, almost all of Ben's workers have become ill, so he goes and visits them. Though the kids were warned to stay in the hotel, Gabe proposes that they go to a nearby museum by themselves. The kids go to the museum and wander through it. After a few minutes, Ahmed appears. They try to avoid him, but he's too fast. He says that Ben told him to take the kids back to their room in the hotel. Ahmed takes the kids to his car, but he starts driving in the opposite direction of the hotel. Gabe realizes that Ahmed is kidnapping them. Gabe warns Sari, and the two sprint out of the car. After asking a cab driver for help, the duo makes it back to the hotel and stay in their room until Ben arrives. When he does, the kids tell him what happened. Ben says that he has to return to the pyramid to continue his exploration. For safety, Ben takes Gabe and Sari with him to the chamber.
 A few minutes after they enter the pyramid, Gabe stops to tie his shoe. When he looks up, he sees that Uncle Ben and Sari have disappeared. After searching for a while, the floor cracks beneath Gabe, and he falls through, landing in a big room filled with mummy-preparation tools. Sari appears in the room, and she says she also got lost. The two kids call Uncle Ben via a pager that Ben provided them with. A few seconds after Sari calls her father, the kids see a light coming through a tunnel. The kids hope that Ben has arrived, but the light turns out to be coming from of Ahmed, who is carrying a torch.
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 OS 05 Curse Mummys Tomb Italian 2016 cover.jpg|Italian (2016)
 Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Czech.gif|Czech
+Curseofthemummystomb-vietnamese.png|Vietnamese
 </gallery>
 |}
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 ==Merchandise==
 <gallery>
-File:MummyShirt.png|The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb glow-in-the-dark T-shirt from Kreepsville 666
-s-l1600 (1).jpg|T-Shirt front
-Mummys Tomb Wake the Dead shirt front and back.jpg|What will wake the dead? shirt front and back
-File:Clipboard02.png|Curse of the Mummy's Tomb screaming keychain.
-MummyFrame.jpg|Freaky Frame
 GBcard13.jpg|Topps Trading Card 01
 GBCard14.jpg|Topps Trading Card 02
 GBCard15.jpg|Topps Trading Card 03
+Mummy Glow in Dark Topps Trading Card.jpg|Topps Glow-in-the-Dark trading card
+Curse Mummy 1995 Pog Cap f+b.jpg|[[Goosebumps Collector's Caps Books|Collector's Cap]]
+MummyShirt.png|Glow-in-the-dark T-shirt from Kreepsville 666
+s-l1600 (1).jpg|What will wake the dead? T-Shirt front
+Mummys Tomb Wake the Dead shirt front and back.jpg|What will wake the dead? shirt
+Curse Mummys Tomb red border t-shirt front TC.jpg|Red bordered T-shirt
+Curse Mummys Tomb red border t-shirt detail.jpg|Red bordered T-shirt detail
+File:Clipboard02.png|Curse of the Mummy's Tomb screaming keychain.
+Mummy Pocket Scream Machine keychain in pkg.jpg|Pocket Scream Machine in package
+Mummy Pocket Scream Machine keychain unpkg front.jpg|Pocket Scream Machine keychain (unpackaged)
 MummyChain.jpg|Hologram Keychain
+MummyFrame.jpg|Freaky Frame
 MummyGraph.png|Lithograph
+Curse Mummys Tomb mini notebook.jpg|Mini notebook
+Curse Mummys Tomb Antioch tabbed bookmark.jpg|Tabbed Antioch bookmark
+Mummy Antioch booklet notepad f+b.jpg|Notebook
+Mummy Khor-Ru Pocket Flashlight in pkg front.jpg|Pocket Flashlight
+Mummy All Wrapped Up doorknob hanger.jpg|'Do Not Disturb - I'm All Wrapped Up!' Doorknob hanger
 </gallery>
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 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - artwork.jpg|Original 1992 artwork by [[Tim Jacobus]]
 Curseofthemummystomb-reprint-art.jpg|''[[Classic Goosebumps]]'' artwork by [[Brandon Dorman]].
+curseofthemummystombvietnamesecover.jpg|Vietnamese Artwork by Tidus Fair Supertramp
 </gallery>
 ===Conceptual===
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 Thecurseofthemummystomb-concept1.jpg|Sketch.
 Thecurseofthemummystomb-concept2.jpg|Painted sketch.
+Curseofthemummytomblineart.jpg|Line Work for the Vietnamese Cover
 </gallery>
 ==Trivia==
-* This was inadvertently the first ''Goosebumps'' book to feature a character with a widowed parent, because it was mentioned later on in ''Return of the Mummy'' that Sari's mother passed away when she was five.
+* This was inadvertently the first ''Goosebumps'' book to feature a character with a widowed parent. It was mentioned later on in ''[[Return of the Mummy]]'' that Sari's mother passed away when she was five.
+* The mummy on the cover is often mistaken for [[Prince Khor-Ru]] from ''[[Return of the Mummy]]''.
-* The book references [[Wikipedia:Game Boy|Game Boy]], ''[[Wikipedia:Super Mario Land|Super Mario Land]]'', [[Wikipedia:Indiana Jones|Indiana Jones]], [[Wikipedia:Silly Putty|Silly Putty]], [[Wikipedia:Coca-Cola|Coca-Cola Classic]], [[Wikipedia:New Coke|New Coke]], [[Wikipedia:CNN|CNN]], [[Wikipedia:Quasimodo|Quasimodo]], ''[[Wikipedia:The Hunchback of Notre Dame|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]],'' [[Wikipedia:Frosted Flakes|Frosted Flakes]] and [[Wikipedia:Tony the Tiger|Tony the Tiger]].
+* This book references [[Wikipedia:Game Boy|Game Boy]], ''[[Wikipedia:Super Mario Land|Super Mario Land]]'', [[Wikipedia:Indiana Jones|Indiana Jones]], [[Wikipedia:Silly Putty|Silly Putty]], [[Wikipedia:Coca-Cola|Coca-Cola Classic]], [[Wikipedia:New Coke|New Coke]], [[Wikipedia:CNN|CNN]], [[Wikipedia:Quasimodo|Quasimodo]], ''[[Wikipedia:The Hunchback of Notre Dame|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]],'' [[Wikipedia:Frosted Flakes|Frosted Flakes]] and [[Wikipedia:Tony the Tiger|Tony the Tiger]].
-* The book's title shares the same name as the 1964 horror film [[Wikipedia:The_Curse_of_the_Mummy's_Tomb|''The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb'']].
+* This book's title shares the same name as the 1964 horror film [[Wikipedia:The_Curse_of_the_Mummy's_Tomb|''The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb'']].
-* Uncle Ben is exploring the pyramid of the pharaoh [[Wikipedia:Khufu|Khufu]], however it is uncertain if Stine is making a reference to the actual Khufu or not.
+* Uncle Ben is exploring the pyramid of the pharaoh [[Wikipedia:Khufu|Khufu]]; however, it's unclear if Stine is making a reference to the actual Khufu or not.
-* Early editions of this book do not have a number on the spine.
+* First editions of this book do not feature a number on the spine.
 * This is one of few ''Goosebumps'' books set around Christmastime.
+* This is one of few ''Goosebumps'' books that have a happy ending.
 ===References in other ''Goosebumps'' media===
 * Mummies from this book appear in the [[Goosebumps (film)|''Goosebumps'' film]].
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 [[Category:Undead]]
 [[Category:Christmas]]
+[[Category:Uncles]]
+[[Category:Covers by Brandon Dorman]]
+[[Category:Cousins]]