My conclusion explains why taste is largely absent from the genre by examining the few instances that can be identified and contextualising them within the historical framework of corpse-eating and mass consumerismMass consumerism. This lacuna is an intentional decision caused by these stories’ position in history, as they were published at a time where literally eating mummies had recently been deemed repulsive but capitalist consumption of reproduction Egyptian objects was not yet widespread. In this final section, I demonstrate how the lack of representations of taste in the genre stems from a desire to distance readers from the previous century’s trend of eating mummies for medicine (which was popular from 1700 to 1750), but also how the discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tutankhamuntomb in November 1922, and the subsequent ‘Tutmania’ that followed, changed what taste in mummies meant and consequently, and in combination with the arrival of The Mummy (1933), ended the popularity of mummy fiction once and for all.