Out of the Sand is an anthology of 20 classic short stories focusing on Egyptology, from mummies to curses, artifacts to pyramids.
- The Mummy's Foot (1840), Theophile Gautier
- Some Words with a Mummy (1845), Edgar Allan Poe
- Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse (1869), Louisa May Alcott
- My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies (1880), Grant Allen
- The Ring of Thoth (1890), Arthur Conan Doyle
- Lot No. 249 (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Professor of Egyptology (1894), Guy Boothby
- The Story of Baelbrow (1898), E. and H. Heron
- The Mysterious Mummy (1903), Sax Rohmer
- The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt (1904), C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
- Mustapha (1904), S. Baring-Gould
- The Nemesis of Fire (1908), Algernon Blackwood
- Sand (1912), Algernon Blackwood
- Smith and the Pharaohs (1912), H. Rider Haggard
- In the Valley of the Sorceress (1916), Sax Rohmer
- The Death-Ring of Sneferu (1917), Sax Rohmer
- The Wings of Horus (1917), Algernon Blackwood
- Lord of the Jackals (1918), Sax Rohmer
- The Ape (1920), E. F. Benson
- Black Coffee (1929), Jeffery Farnol