This chapter explores the tension between different types of gazes that both supports and undermines colonial power. Sight, more than any other sense, is how the Victorians comprehended their world. Colloquially, sight is often used interchangeably with gaze, but it is not the same as gaze is never passive. Drawing on feminist film and cultural studies, I argue that if every instance of looking has intent behind it, then fictional instances of Egyptian gothic gaze in which information is shared via sight in the genre are loaded with meaning. In this chapter, I argue that the visual images of mummies in fiction can be understood as a portable iconography, which once viewed initially can be applied to other texts. While many texts do not have illustrations, I examine the illustrations that do appear in key Egyptian gothic texts. Some—like She (1886–7)—are often in conflict with the textual descriptions. These illustrations contain tropes which can also be seen in non-illustrated texts forming a body of serial recognised tropes based on the imagery of Empire.