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Return Of The Mummy   by jekky

Return of the Mummy  

Author

R. L. Stine

Cover artist

Tim Jacobus

Country

United States

Language

English

Series

Goosebumps

Genre(s)

Horror novel, Children’s novel

Publisher

Scholastic

Publication date

September 1994

Media type

Print (Paperback)

Pages

118 p.

ISBN

0-590-47745-5

OCLC Number

30821831

LC Classification

CPB Box no. 2029 vol. 9

Preceded by

Ghost Beach

Followed by

Phantom of the Auditorium

Return of the Mummy is the twenty-third book in R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps series. It is the sequel to The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb.

Plot Summary

A year after his previous encounter with the mummy, Gabe is flying back to Egypt to attend the grand public opening of the pyramid Uncle Ben was excavating in the last book. Uncle Ben and his daughter Sari pick Gabe up from the airport and they drive straight to the pyramids in Giza. Uncle Ben informs Gabe that instead of a hotel in Cairo, they’ll be staying in the Pyramid Hilton, his name for the tents lining the exterior of the pyramid. Uncle Ben announces that he and his team are very close to breaking the seal on a tomb inside the pyramid. As Uncle Ben walks the kids to the pyramid’s entrance, a mummy staggers out and attacks the three. Except it’s not really a mummy at all, but a guy dressed as a mummy making a commercial for “Sticky Bird Bandages.”

Uncle Ben gives Gabe a necklace with a pendant made of amber. Inside the amber is a scarab, which Uncle Ben explains were sacred insects to their ancestors. Sari thinks it’s a dumb gift but Gabe wears it with pride. Sari tells Gabe that the scarab beetle somehow came out of the amber and is crawling on him. Gabe feels a pinch on his leg and remembering that Uncle Ben warned him that a scarab bite meant instant death, he falls to the ground howling in horror. Except that the scarab never left his pendant and the pinch came from Sari, who knelt down and pinched his leg. Gabe is upset but Sari feels she shouldn’t apologize.

Over breakfast the next morning, Uncle Ben tells Gabe about the tomb they’re opening. Ben believes it belonged to King Tut’s cousin, Khor-Ru, and could be filled with millions of dollars worth of valuable jewels. Or it could be empty, a trick tomb to fool grave-robbers, Ben casually warns. After breakfast, Sari tells Gabe that she’s worried about her father. He’s really set a lot of his hopes on the discoveries inside the tomb making him famous and she’s afraid that he’ll be really depressed if there’s nothing inside the tomb.

Uncle Ben hurries over to the kids and drags them into the pyramid, as his workers are ready to break the seal. He gives the kids yellow hard hats with lights to wear. The three don’t make it very far inside the pyramid before they’re stopped by a beautiful woman dressed in a white pantsuit. The woman introduces herself as Nila Rahmad. Nila is a reporter for the Cairo Sun and she wants permission to accompany Uncle Ben as he opens the tomb. Ben consents, as she claims to have run this idea past Ben’s partner, Dr. Fielding. Nila asks Sari and Gabe if this is their first time to be in a pyramid and Gabe says it is. Nila admires Gabe’s pendant and shows him her matching necklace– only hers doesn’t have a scarab inside. Ben tells Nila a bunch of stuff about the pyramid in a clumsy attempt to impress her. Gabe complains that it’s cold inside the pyramid and he should have brought a sweatshirt.

Almost immediately Gabe gets lost and doesn’t know how or why. Gabe stops wandering the tunnels of the pyramid and leans against a wall. He then leans through the wall as he tumbles into yet another secret hidden chamber. Inside this chamber are thousands of white spiders. The spiders swarm over Gabe as a rope ladder finds its way down into the room. Uncle Ben and Nila hoist Gabe back up and Gabe takes out his mummy hand to make sure it survived his fall. Gabe is shocked when Nila asks him if it’s The Summoner. It figures that the one character who would remember anything about the previous book wasn’t even in it. As the other characters turn around to make their way back on course, Gabe looks down at the mummy hand and sees the fingers twitching.

Two days later, Ben’s workers finally prepare to break the seal to the tomb. Ben gathers up the two kids and Nila and they head down the pyramid. Ben prepares to chisel away the soft gold seal when he hears a booming voice: “PLEASE- LET ME REST IN PEACE!” They all turn around and see a lanky man. The man crying out is Dr. Omar Fielding, Ben’s partner. Dr. Fielding tries one last time to reason with Ben, to not break the seal. Dr. Fielding reminds Ben that the hieroglyphs on the door warn that anyone who repeats the ancient chant written on the door five times will return the mummified prince to life. Dr. Fielding refuses to be privy to incurring the mummy’s wrath and flees the pyramid. Ben chisels away the seal and pushes open the door. Unfortunately the inside of the tomb is completely bare.

Undeterred, Ben makes the entire crew enter the bare tomb and begin work on removing the gold seal off of another door found in the room. After working all day, the workers remove this seal, and behind the new door they find a large mausoleum filled with pots and chests of treasure. The tomb appears to have once been a meeting room, as inside they find a long table, chairs, and a large throne. The attention of everyone in the tomb soon turns to the stone casket resting against a far wall. Ben and three of his workers slowly lower the coffin to the ground and slide off the lid. Inside they find the tar-stained, mummified body of Prince Khor-Ru. Suddenly four men burst into the tomb, waving guns. They announce themselves to be with the Cairo police. Dr. Fielding saunters into the tomb and tells Ben he changed his mind and called the police to come and guard the tomb’s treasures. Ben wearily accepts the help of the police, as he has no choice.

That night, Ben, Nila, and the kids are eating dinner around a campfire in the desert. Nila has her arm wrapped around Ben and wants him to tell her the six words that will bring the mummy to life. Ben finally gives in and reveals them to be “Teki Kahru Teki Kehra Teki Khari.” Ben scurries away to do some work in the communications tent and Nila heads back to her office in Cairo. Back in their tent, Gabe comes up with a plan to scare Sari, to get her back for all her pranks. He recites the correct chant five times and Sari is visibly disturbed.

A gruff figure accosts the children in their tent but it turns out only to be Dr. Fielding. He tells the two youths that he must find Ben and the two kids decide to follow him for adventure. As they watch from a safe distance, they can’t tell whether Dr. Fielding is leading Uncle Ben towards the pyramid or just resting his arm on his shoulder as they walk quickly across the sand. Dr. Fielding appears to push Ben down into the pyramid’s entrance and the two kids agree that since they don’t have flashlights, they’ll have to wait outside the entrance. Gabe tells Sari that he saw the four policemen leave earlier in the afternoon, meaning that Dr. Fielding and Ben are alone in the pyramid. After waiting about an hour, Dr. Fielding emerges, alone, from the pyramid. The kids try to catch his attention, to ask where Sari’s father is, but Dr. Fielding just runs away into the night. Gabe tells Sari to stand guard at the entrance in case her father comes out while he runs back to the tents to grab some flashlights. When Gabe returns, Sari signals that Ben didn’t come out. The two kids head into the dark pyramid, alone.

Sari can’t remember the exact route that leads to the prince’s tomb, but Gabe spots work boot prints in the sand and the two follow the tracks into the empty tomb. They see no sign of Ben until Gabe notices that the lid to the mummy’s casket was now closed. It was open when they’d left earlier in the day. The two slide the lid off and find Uncle Ben tied and gagged inside. Dr. Fielding had left him to suffocate sealed inside the casket. Gabe and Sari realize at the same time that if Ben’s in the mummy’s coffin, then where’s the mummy? Right at the entrance to the room, and he’s heading right towards the kids! Gabe tries to yell for his uncle to save them, but he’s passed out inside the case. The two kids maneuver their way past the mummy and into the empty room. They run right into Nila. They beg her to help them but she gets angry at the kids, telling them that they’ve ruined everything. Nila produces Gabe’s mummy hand, which she stole from him, and uses it to call the mummy closer. She reveals that the mummy is her brother and she is over 4,000 years old. Now, thanks to Gabe’s Summoner, she and her brother can reign over Egypt again.

She calls on her brother to kill the children, but the mummy walks right by them and instead starts choking his sister. “Leave me in peace,” the mummy groans as he assaults Nila. Gabe tries to break up the mummy murder and accidentally pulls off Nila’s amulet. It crashes to the ground shattering into a thousand shards. She howls out and tells Gabe that the pendant was how she stayed alive all these years. At night she would revert into a scarab and climb inside the amber. Nila shrinks down into the scarab beetle and scurries away into the dark of the pyramid. Dr. Fielding bursts in, surrounded by police. Dr. Fielding wasn’t forcing Ben into the pyramid earlier, he’d just seen Nila trespass inside and wanted help in stopping her. Then when he ran to get the cops, he was so frantic that he didn’t bother to stop and reassure Sari. Back inside their tent, Gabe is bragging about his accomplishments again. Sari jokingly warns that the Nila scarab beetle could still be after him and he should look out. Gabe climbs into bed and utters the novel’s last line, “Ouch.”

TV Adaptation

This book was adapted into an episode of the Goosebumps TV series.

See also

List of Goosebumps books

Categories: Goosebumps | 1994 novels

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