The version below is from the revised, 1912 edition. Warning: template has been deprecated.- Excerpted from The Jewel of Seven Stars on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
For many years the original ending was unavailable to most readers. Malcolm is awakened in the middle of the night and summoned to the house of famous Egyptologist Abel Trelawny at the request of his daughter, Margaret. Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stokers The Squaw and The Jewel of Seven Stars. The Jewel of Seven Stars tells the tale of Malcolm Ross, a young barrister, pulled into an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. As a result, Stoker removed Chapter XVI "Powers – Old and New" and gave the book a new and happier ending. Stokers lesser-read Gothics express Victorian patriarchal gynaecological. Shortly before his death in 1912 when Stoker attempted to republish the book he was told that he would have to change the ending if he didn’t want it to go out of publication. When The Jewel of Seven Stars was first released in 1903 the publishers received a great deal of criticism from both critics and readers because of its gruesome ending.
The story is about an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. His other novels include The Snakes Pass (1890), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). The Jewel of Seven Stars (also published under the name The Jewel of the Seven Stars) is a horror novel by Bram Stoker first published in 1903. Stoker wrote several other novels dealing with horror and supernatural themes, but none of them achieved the lasting fame or success of Dracula.
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