title: The Mummy Unwrapped: Scenes Left on Universal's Cutting Room Floor
author:  Thomas M. Feramisco 
description: Universal Horror enthusiast <B>Thomas M. Feramisco</B> is a prize winning script writer. He lives in Thousand Oaks, California.
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  The Mysterious Mummy
  
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  # The Mysterious Mummy
  
  
  ### Sax Rohmer
  
  
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  It was about five o'clock on a hot August afternoon, that a tall,
  
  
  thin man, wearing a weedy beard, and made conspicious by an
  
  
  ill-fitting frock-coat and an almost napless silk hat, walked into the
  
  
  entrance hall of the Great Portland Square Museum. He carried no
  
  
  stick, and, looking about him, as though unfamiliar with the building,
  
  
  he ultimately mounted the principal staircase, walking with a
  
  
  pronounced stoop, and at intervals coughing with a hollow sound.
  
  
  His gaunt figure attracted the attention of several people, among
  
  
  them the attendant in the Egyptain room. Hardened though he was to the
  
  
  eccentric in humanity, the man who hung so eagerly over the mummies of
  
  
  departed kings and coughed so frequently, nevertheless secured his
  
  
  instant attention. Visitors of the r