Things to Do at the British Museum When You're Dead: An Unearthly Remains Prequel Short Story

By Katherine Gilbert

A mummy uprising at the British Museum? Who ya gonna call? Supernatural Oversight!

Detective Erick Lawrence, late of the NYPD and fledgling member of the S.O., has only been aware that the paranormal world is real for a couple of months. Imagine his surprise to be called in to help quell a mass rebellion of mummies ready to fly back to Egypt with all the museum's contents on the backs of a flock of sphinxes.

Still, with no real powers of his own, he's forced to stand by with a cheerful and annoying mummy interpreter and watch as his ultra-competent (and disturbingly hot) boss, Marilyn, handles everything. Toss in an odd spell she's cast on him, which reduces all of the various mummies' names to a Bronx cheer, and the poor man isn't having a good day.

A (very) short story prequel to the quirky paranormal mystery, Unearthly Remains, this character piece will introduce the humorous, extranormal world of Supernatural Oversight.

On a Gilbert wackiness scale of 1-to-10 sarcastic talking cats*, this one is a 7.

*Warning: Not all stories contain talking cats. Wackiness may take other forms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Katherine Gilbert
• Release date: Sep 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781005256395

Katherine Gilbert

Katherine Gilbert was born at house number 1313 and then transplanted to a crumbling antebellum ruin so gothic that The Munsters would have run from it. She has since gained several ridiculously-impractical degrees in English and Religious and Women's Studies. She now teaches at a South Carolina community college, where all her students think, correctly, that she is very, very strange, indeed. You can sign up for her newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/dCcccL or her Reader Group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1169120069919462/While Katherine Gilbert is the author of several sweet paranormal romance/urban fantasy novels, when the werewolves, witches, angels, and their friends are on vacation, she transforms into her alter-ego, Kat Samuels, writer of steamy contemporary and historical romance. If you’d like to learn more about Kat Samuels’ upcoming steamy historical and contemporary novels and get more inside-the-world stories, join her newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/gB2bmL

Book preview

Katherine Gilbert’s More in Heaven and Earth Universe

(Can be read in any order you choose):

Unearthly Remains

Protecting the Dead

Moonlight, Magnolias, and Magic

(These first three are also available in the More in Heaven and Earth, Box Set 1, along with the short story at the end of this list and one other prequel short story)

Cursed in White

A Wild Conversion

Children of the Gods

(These second three are also available in the More in Heaven and Earth, Box Set 2, along with a between-the-novels short story)

Sorcerers, Spirits, and Ships

Pride, Prejudice & Penguins

Postcards from Another World

THE BRITISH MUSEUM had held many mummies and sphinxes over the years. It specialized in them, as well as in the many other looted treasures of empire. What it had probably never seen before was an entire flock of living, breathing female sphinxes, each with a mummy on its back, ready to escape back home to Egypt once more.

Erick Lawrence watched what had started as a magical standoff and was now simply an unbelievably tense negotiation. A longer strand of his dark brown hair fell into his burning brown eyes, but he wasn't pushing it away, wasn't even blinking. Although he was trying to look casual, he was hiding the fact that he was ready to spring to his new boss' defense, should she need it.

It wasn't like Marilyn ever did, though,