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The Ring of Thoth

Arthur Conan Doyle

First published 1914
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"An Egyptologist in the Louvre stumbles upon a 4,000 year old Egyptian who discovered the secret of eternal life and now is going to end his life in the arms of his mummified love." (Books & Boots)

First published in Cornhill Magazine, 1890.
Adapted for the movie The Mummy.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1914 Cover The Captain of the Pole-Star Hodder & Stoughton Collection 238
1925 Cover The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen George H. Doran Collection
June 1929 Cover The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
October 1939 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
December 1940 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
December 1945 Cover The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection 782
March 1949 Cover The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
August 1951 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
November 1956 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
August 1960 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection 782
1979 Cover The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications Collection 202
August 1979 Cover The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications Collection 202
April 1988 Cover The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle W. Foulsham & Co. Collection 104
May 1988 Cover Movie Monsters: Great Horror Film Stories Severn House Anthology 65
June 1989 Cover The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle Amereon House Collection 202
December 1992 Cover The Face of Tutankhamun Faber and Faber Anthology 183
2000 Cover The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Gramercy Books Collection
May 2004 Cover The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction Ash-Tree Press Collection 160
June 2008 Cover Ghost Story Collection 5 LibriVox Anthology |5
August 2008 Cover Out of the Sand: Mummies, Pyramids, and Egyptology in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Coachwhip Publications Anthology 61
2010 Cover The Speculative Conan Doyle Coachwhip Publications Collection 174
February 2012 Cover The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction Ash-Tree Press Collection |160
February 2012 Cover The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction Ash-Tree Press Collection |160
October 2013 Cover Unearthed Jurassic London Anthology 87
October 2013 Cover Unearthed Jurassic London Anthology
2016 Cover The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications Collection 202
October 2016 Cover Gothic Tales Oxford University Press Collection
October 2016 Cover Gothic Tales Oxford University Press Collection
February 2018 Cover A Mummy Omnibus: 1820s - 1920s (Abridged Edition) A Bit O'Irish Press Anthology 51
March 2018 Cover Gothic Tales Oxford University Press Collection 150
May 2021 Cover The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror Poisoned Pen Press Collection |6
May 2021 Cover The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror Poisoned Pen Press Collection |6
September 2023 Cover Black Infinity, September 2023 Rocket Science Books MAGAZINE 128
March 2024 Cover Tales of Horror Lyons Press Anthology |22
March 2024 Cover Tales of Horror Lyons Press Anthology |22