cover image Into the Mummy's Tomb

Into the Mummy's Tomb

. Berkley Publishing Group, $14 (352pp) ISBN 978-0-425-17664-1

Ancient curses are unleashed, the spirits of disturbed dead bodies exact revenge, archaeologists get lost in underground mazes and ships bearing unearthed coffin lids sink in Into the Mummy's Tomb, a collection of work by archaeologists and writers, including Bram Stoker, Anne Rice, Ray Bradbury and Mark Twain, edited by John Richard Stephens. In ""Lost in a Pyramid,"" by Louisa May Alcott, a young woman cultivates a strange, dangerous plant from a seed her explorer fianc brought from Egypt.