The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) - Bram Stoker Audiobook

Written by Bram Stoker
Read by Simon Vance
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: September 5, 2005
Duration: 08:07:22

The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror, written by Dracula’s Bram Stoker. Archeologists and grave robbers have become complacent about the warning written on the entrance way to the tomb of Queen Terra, an ancient Egyptian mummy.

“Hither the Gods come not at any summons. The Nameless One has insulted them and is forever alone. Go not nigh, lest their vengeance wither you away!” The warning was inscribed on the entrance of the hidden tomb, forgotten for millennia in the sands of mystic Egypt. Then the archaeologists and grave robbers came in search of the fabled Jewel of Seven Stars, which they found clutched in the hand of the mummy. Few heeded the ancient warning, until all who came in contact with the jewel began to die in a mysterious and violent way, with the marks of a strangler around their neck.

Now, in a bedroom filled with ancient relics, a distinguished Egyptologist lies senseless, stricken by a force that challenges human understanding.

Someone has seized the fabled Jewel of Seven Stars from the mummy’s grip, and the ancient Egyptian queen Tera has risen from her tomb to take it back—at any cost! This thrilling tale of adventure and ritual magic recounts a supernatural struggle in which archeologists, grave robbers, and anyone else who attempts to possess the Jewel meet a mysterious, violent fate.

Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, wrote this enthralling novel of possession, reincarnation, and an ancient curse at the peak of the Victorian fascination with Egyptology. His spellbinding blend of Eastern lore and classic horror fiction formed the template for the plots of dozens of mummy movies.

Note from a reviewer…This book has two endings. When originally published in 1903 and in second publishing in 1904 it had an ending that was critics at the time as being too gruesome so when Stoker published it again,shortly before his death in 1912, he was forced by the publisher to add a new ending. I read this at Project Gutenberg which had the changed ending
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3781/3… but I was able to read the original ending also at http://bramstoker.org/novels/08stars…. -The changed ending is a little to much of a fairy tale ending. The original ending is not gruesome by today’s standards but it is horribly sad.

This recording has the “happy ending”.