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Tutankhamen renews interest in The Jewel of Seven Stars

29 September 1923 · Evening Star

Bram Stoker Estate account · Original source: English

Estate summary

The Evening Star repeats a literary note from John o’ London’s Weekly connecting a new edition of The Jewel of Seven Stars with the contemporary fascination for Tutankhamen. It describes Bram as Irving’s manager and friend, praises Dracula as a powerful thriller and suggests that it would make a successful film. The note also speculates that a diary might survive and eventually provide material for reminiscences. That speculation is evidence of what the writer hoped might be found in 1923, not proof that the diary had then been inspected. The item documents an early Egyptian-discovery context for renewed interest in Bram’s novel.

Relevant OCR note read in full. Explicitly attributed to John o’ London’s Weekly; this is the New Zealand reprint, not the unidentified original British issue.

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An early edition cover of The Jewel of Seven Stars.
The Jewel of Seven Stars, early edition with scarab-and-stars binding.Early twentieth-century printed cover, via ManyBooks / Wikimedia Commons. Public domain; cover designer not established. · Licence