Line #15 Literature/TheCurseOfTheMummysTomb


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3	The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book about Egyptian curses.
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5	Gabe is staying with his Uncle Ben ([[ComicBook/SpiderMan not that one]], or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Ben%27s that one]]) and bratty cousin Sari in Egypt. Ben is an archaeologist excavating a pyramid; since this is a ''Goosebumps'' book, he brings the children along. They end up getting lost, and curses ensue. Well, not really... sort of. It's actually a bit more complicated than that.
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7	It has a direct {{sequel}}, ''Literature/ReturnOfTheMummy''. It is unrelated to [[Film/TheCurseOfTheMummysTomb movie of the same name]], sharing only general Egyptian-themed horror.
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9	It is one of the nineteen original series books that was not adapted into [[Series/Goosebumps1995 the TV series]].
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11	It was later reissued in the ''Classic Goosebumps'' line in 2009 as a companion to ''Who's Your Mummy?''.
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14	!!The book provides examples of:
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16	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Sari is superior to Gabe and won't let him forget it.
17	* CaptainObvious: Two consecutive chapters end with the lines, "He had us cornered," and "We were being kidnapped." Both of these things are made completely obvious in the lines immediately before that.
18	* ChekhovsGun: Gabe's mummy hand ends up saving the day.
19	* CompetitionFreak: Sari Hassad. She'll turn ''anything'' into a competition, even how much breakfast she and Gabe are having.
20	* DidIMentionItsChristmas: Gabe is in Egypt during Christmas break. The locals don't seem to care much, [[JustifiedTrope which is plausible since Egypt is predominantly Muslim.]]
21	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Ben ''really'' shouldn't trust Ahmed. Even after being told that he wants to kill and mummify Gabe and Sari, he still thinks they can talk things out rationally "as scientist to scientist."
22	* InUniverseFactoidFailure: Gabe's parents are telling some facts they learned about the pyramids, and claim that some of the blocks used to make up the pyramids "weighed up to a thousand tons." They actually weigh [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale only about 2.5 tons.]] The line was probably ''meant'' to say that some of the ''pyramids'' weigh ''over'' a thousand tons (which is correct), but either Stine or an editor screwed it up at some point.
23	* MadScientist: In a variant, Ahmed is a mad archaeologist.
24	* NeverTrustATitle: Nobody ''actually'' gets cursed.
25	* RedHerring: This book has a clever subversion. Early on, Gabe and Sari are chased through a museum by Ahmed, who seems to have some sinister reason for going after them. When he finds them, he tells them he was only trying to give them a message from Gabe's uncle, and isn't sure why they ran from him. [[spoiler: However, this turns out to be a lie, and he tries to kidnap them immediately afterwards.]]
26	* RiddleForTheAges: At the beginning, Gabe mentions that he bought a mummy hand at a garage sale (which he thinks is fake), and class "The Summoner" [[spoiler: It turns out to be the real hand of the Priestess Khala, and he uses it to animate some mummies in the tomb to save him from Ahmed. It's never explained, however, how it got from some previously unexplored tomb in Egypt to a garage sale in the US.]]
27	* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: This book is probably the furthest on the horror side of the scale.
28	* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler: Ahmed, ostensibly a representative from the university with a lot of knowledge of ancient curses. He's really there to ensure that nobody gets into the Sacred Chamber of Priestess Khala, which is also in the pyramid.]]
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30	!!The (non-existent) episode provides examples of:
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