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Kharis
Kharis is the name of the mummy featured in the four films produced by Universal Studios in the 1940's following their original 1932 film The Mummy, which starred Boris Karloff as a different mummy character, Imhotep. Inspired by worldwide interest in Egyptian archeology of the era, the Mummy is the only major Universal monster of the 1920's, 30's, and 40's whose origin as a fearsome being is credited to the films in which he appears; the Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and the Invisible Man all originated in literature, and the Wolf Man was derived from werewolf myths.
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