Morning Star is a historical novel with fantasy elements by H Rider Haggard, set in Ancient Egypt.

[1][2] The novel is set some time after the expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt (around 1500-1200 BCE).

[1] The Australian newspaper The World's News described Morning Star as "a very exciting and cleverly constructed romance".

[3] Roger Lancelyn Green praised Morning Star as "one of the best re-creations of Ancient Egypt ever written.

"[4] E. F. Bleiler described Morning Star as "well-structured, but with a vein of cruelty in the excursion of the wholly-other into human life.