The Egyptian Sorceress and Her Sisters

This ancient Egyptian sorceress can defend herself and her resting place with both her red-hot magical staff and her army of mummified sisters. You would not want to meet them if you broke into their tomb!

These are all characters from a short horror/fantasy story I recently completed, which is titled "Staff of the Red Sun". You can read it at the link below:

Staff of the Red SunEgypt, 1942 AD
The limestone door ground over the gravelly earth as the diggers pushed it open. The grating noise would not have been the most pleasant for most men to hear, but for Friedrich von Essen, it was music to his ears. After untold weeks of watching these chattering Arabs gouge a pit out of the desert beneath the roasting sun, he had found it at last.
The thought of presenting this discovery to those fools back in Berlin made him smirk with glee. Even the Führer himself, eager as he was for any leverage in the war, had shown a bit of hesitance before sponsoring the expedition. Even if Friedrich ended up finding nothing inside this tomb, he had at least confirmed its very existence.
A faint yet acrid smell flowed out from the black depths beyond the doorway. The Arab diggers jumped back with startled shouts and whimpered among themselves, their normally bronze faces slightly blanched.
Underneath the howl of the wind, Friedrich thought he had heard a soft whisper. I