When Ambercrombie Smith, a young medical student at Oxford, is summoned to the room of fellow student Bellingham - a fanatical Egyptologist, who appears to have fainted owing to a severe shock - he uses his medical skills to revive him. But this is by no means the last odd incident involving Bellingham, who appears to be increasingly obsessed with researches around a strange and uncanny Mummy which he keeps in his room.

A series of unexplained and dangerous attacks on students against whom Bellingham has a grudge make Abercrombie Smith suspect that something unearthly is going on. He sets out to get to the bottom of the mystery...