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Post by dem bones on Jan 28, 2019 12:32:27 GMT
Heitman Louis B. Capron - The Soul That Waited: ( Weird Tales, June 1925). A Passion for a Mummy - a Love that Bridged the Centuries. Princess Nitocris, beautiful daughter of Ramses I, died unwed circa 1315 B.C. aged 23. The Princess, a mystic, had been holding out for the guy of her dreams, "a man from a land far to the West. I pray to Osiris that my ka may not begin the long journey before he comes." Over three thousand years later, Thornton Hartley, arrives in Cairo from the States to excavate a newly discovered tomb ....
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Post by dem bones on Feb 12, 2019 8:51:32 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch Willis Knapp Jones - The Green Scarab: ( Weird Tales, Aug. 1925). Peculiar Experience of a Painter and an Egyptian Mummy. An artist's studio stands next door to the museum. As Dr. Sheridan's team unpack a delivery to the Egyptian room on the other side of the wall, Gil Burgess is inspired to begin work on the painting of a beautiful woman. Princess Redet-N-Ptah is evidently not best pleased with the resulting portrait. Not especially remarkable, but I enjoyed it. As with many early 'twenties Weird Tales mummy offerings, story references the "King Tut craze."
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Post by dem bones on Feb 13, 2019 21:28:20 GMT
Edward Podolsky - The Figure of Anubis: (Weird Tales, Feb. 1925). A Bizarre Tale of a Mummy, An Egyptian Goddess, And a Terrifying Adventure Among the Grand Ruins of Thebes. Anubis plays an evil trick on recently bereaved Richard Held by briefly reviving a mummy. The princess peels away her bandages to briefly reveal the adorable body of the late Fleurette - only to rot in an overjoyed Richard's arms!
Carlos G. Stratton - A Pair Of Mummies: (Weird Tales, March 1925). An Egyptian-Babylonian Story "STOLEN - From the British Museum last night, a pair of mummies. Same are the only extant specimens of the embalming practised in ancient Babylon. £50 reward for evidence leading to their recovery. Apply street entrance near southerly gate. No questions asked." London Daily Mail
Two Thousand years ago, the King promised his daughter to a foreign ruler, but, on the eve of the wedding, the Princess eloped with her magician-physician lover to commit suicide. Narrated by the reincarnation of the latter, who recently unearthed their mummies during the excavation of a Babylonian tomb.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 20, 2019 9:44:39 GMT
Artist unknown: Ba, Guardian of the Dead. Burton Crane - Mummy Of Makara: ( The Thing, Summer 1946). A mildly spicy offering from a San Francisco based fantasy 'zine. The tangled love lives of three museum curators are thrown into further turmoil by an amorous perma-topless Queen Hatusu. Consequently the Babylonian room acquires two perfectly preserved mummies. Thanks again to Jesse Willis at SFF Audio
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Post by helrunar on Feb 20, 2019 16:41:11 GMT
Hey Kev, thanks to the great link to that SFF audio PDF page. That's really an awesome repository of scans of tales as originally published in all the mags we love, and many I have never even heard of.
cheers, Steve
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Post by dem bones on Apr 15, 2019 9:11:15 GMT
Victor Rousseau - The Curse of Amen-Ra ( Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, Oct. 1932) Amos Sewell Seabury Quinn - The Grinning Mummy ( Weird Tales, Dec. 1926) G. O. Olinick
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Post by dem bones on Apr 17, 2019 8:47:10 GMT
Seabury Quinn - The Grinning Mummy: ( Weird Tales, Dec. 1926). “There’s a tall hedge growin’ on each side of th’ lane where it comes out on th’ pike, an’ these folks musta been throwin’ a neckin’ party or sumpin up there, for they was runnin’ in low —kind o’ sneakin along — not makin’ a bit o’ noise till they was within a few feet of th’ main road, than they stepped on her for fair, an’ come out into th’ highway runnin’ like a scairt dawg .... The sheik who was drivin’ was one o’ them lounge-lizards with patent leather hair, an’ th’ jane was little an’ dark, with big eyes an’ a sort o’ sneery look. She was holdin' sumpin in her lap; looked like it might o’ been another girl’s head, or sumpin. Anyways, it was all covered up with cloth. An’ they didn’t even excuse theirselves for crowdin’ me into the ditch; just went on down th' road toward Morristown like greased lightnin' .” Professor Francis Butterbaugh, the World famous archaeologist/ tomb-looter, falls foul of a brother-sister Coptic death squad. He is duly murdered with a pick axe ("the scepter of Isis") while unwrapping the mummified Ankh-ma-amen. Usual busy plot, denouement plausible - if ridiculous - with seemingly supernatural incidents rationalised. Exciting getaway scene apart, story also notable for a twin suicide by 2,000 year old asp, and de Grandin's unrequited lust for a handsome delivery boy (see JoJo).
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Post by cromagnonman on May 18, 2019 18:04:07 GMT
An episode from the classic Lion & Thunder strip "Dr Mesmer's Revenge". Apparantly the collected serial is being released this October.
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Post by andydecker on May 18, 2019 18:23:33 GMT
Off-topic, but there is so much old stuff being reprinted nowadays, where is the collected and complete Jeff Hawke?
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Post by dem bones on May 19, 2019 13:53:31 GMT
A recent black comedy: Maharg Swerdna - The Mummy from Blood’s Tomb: (Nigel Taylor [ed.], Worlds of Strangeness #3, April 2019). Tomb-pilfering Prof. Leon Valery falls foul of Osman Bay, High Priest of Shezmu, "the unjustly forgotten Pharaoh" whose looted mummy requires replacement.
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Post by dem bones on May 31, 2019 7:34:24 GMT
Elliott O'Donnell - The Mummy Of Amen-Ra: ( Elliott O'Donnell's Ghost Hunters, 1971). Title is a misnomer; it's the empty, exuberantly haunted mummy casket of the Priestess Amen-Otu concerns us here. The Priestess reputedly accounted for at least fourteen lives and one hand during a reign of terror stretching from the late 1880's through to 1921, the year accidental psychic investigators Wyeth and Neal successfully exorcised her restless soul. According to Mr. O'Donnell, Ms. Amen-Otu also caused a visitor to the British Museum to fall from his bicycle breaking an arm for calling her an "ugly old hag!" According to the author, it began when Mr. Douglas Murray ill-advisedly paid a visit to 'Cheiro' for a reading. He sure got his money's worth: "I feel this right hand of yours will not be yours for long. A picture forms in my mind of a gun of some sort bursting and shattering it to pieces. This is followed by terrible suffering and finally the entire arm will have to be amputated. Your hand, sir, seems to be calling to me to try and save it from this impending disaster ... Your hand shows me another picture. It draws a number out of a lottery, the number gives you a prize that you do not want to have. Out of obstinacy and fatalism you take it, and from that moment on commences a series of misfortunes, beginning with the loss of your right arm."Happily, Mr. Murray pays no heed to he whose visions are always 100% accurate and sets out for Egypt regardless. Some more on the alleged Titanic connection: "The withdrawal of the mummy case led to all sorts of rumours, and it was widely believed that it was eventually sold to the New York Museum, and was actually in passage on the Titanic when she went to her doom on her maiden voyage in 1912. But in fact after a long absence, and when it was judged all the fuss had died down, the mummy case, or at least its ornate yellow green lid, bearing the carved face and hands of the priestess, was returned to exhibition."According to the author, it wasn't long before the phantom of the casket was up to her old tricks though there were no further fatalities.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 31, 2019 11:02:28 GMT
Elliott O'Donnell - The Mummy Of Amen-Ra: ( Elliott O'Donnell's Ghost Hunters, 1971). Title is a misnomer; it's the empty, exuberantly haunted mummy casket of the Priestess Amen-Otu concerns us here. The Priestess reputedly accounted for at least fourteen lives and one hand during a reign of terror stretching from the late 1880's through to 1921, the year accidental psychic investigators Wyeth and Neal successfully exorcised her restless soul. According to Mr. O'Donnell, Ms. Amen-Otu also caused a visitor to the British Museum to fall from his bicycle breaking an arm for calling her an "ugly old hag!" According to the author, it began when Mr. Douglas Murray ill-advisedly paid a visit to 'Cheiro' for a reading. He sure got his money's worth: "I feel this right hand of yours will not be yours for long. A picture forms in my mind of a gun of some sort bursting and shattering it to pieces. This is followed by terrible suffering and finally the entire arm will have to be amputated. Your hand, sir, seems to be calling to me to try and save it from this impending disaster ... Your hand shows me another picture. It draws a number out of a lottery, the number gives you a prize that you do not want to have. Out of obstinacy and fatalism you take it, and from that moment on commences a series of misfortunes, beginning with the loss of your right arm."Happily, Mr. Murray pays no heed to he whose visions are always 100% accurate and sets out for Egypt regardless. Some more on the alleged Titanic connection: "The withdrawal of the mummy case led to all sorts of rumours, and it was widely believed that it was eventually sold to the New York Museum, and was actually in passage on the Titanic when she went to her doom on her maiden voyage in 1912. But in fact after a long absence, and when it was judged all the fuss had died down, the mummy case, or at least its ornate yellow green lid, bearing the carved face and hands of the priestess, was returned to exhibition."According to the author, it wasn't long until the phantom of the casket was up to her old tricks though there were no further fatalities. I saw 1948 newsreel footage of Elliott O'Donnell on Talking Pictures TV two nights ago. I thought it was a less old Albert Steptoe!
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Post by dem bones on Jun 29, 2019 19:13:51 GMT
Jack B. Creamer - The Terror Mummy: ( Strange Stories, June 1940). Hate and Revenge Plagued Kirsoff for Twenty Long Years, but Greater Evils Lurk in the Egyptian Crypts!. Ivan Kirsoff, museum owner, mad scientist and manufacturer of bogus Egyptian artefacts, has developed "a new liquid chemical that tans and grays and desiccates a body until it mummifies beautifully." Who better to embalm than Inspector Michael Pancoast, the cop who, twenty years earlier, was chiefly responsible for putting him behind bars? A no nonsense sick and twisted supernatural revenge shudder pulp.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 23, 2019 5:36:09 GMT
On the basis that they all count even when they don't, two text stories from a micro-superhero comic.
Anon - The Living Mummy: (Doll Man #9, Summer, 1946). Steve Loomis, anthropology student, takes rooms at Mrs Mott's lodging house, locally infamous for its screaming ghosts. Steve finds this all very amusing ... until his peaceful sleep is shattered by eerie howls and a ghostly green face leering at him across the room. "She looked like an Egyptian,' he said to himself. 'One of those Egyptian Nile queens. Strange" What can it all mean?
Anon - Ammon-Ra's Curse: (Doll Man #23, July, 1949). A rock fall in the tunnel leading to the tomb of Ammon-Ra, trapping Dr. Roberts among the mummies. Mindful of the curse, the diggers refuse to assist, believing that the Egyptologist has offended by disturbing the Temple. Only one incredible shrinking man can save him. Darrel 'Doll Man' Dane compresses his body molecules ....
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Post by dem bones on Oct 31, 2019 13:28:34 GMT
Donald F. Glut - Monster of the Pyramid: ( Tales of Frankenstein, Druktenis, 2004). "It looks like ... some kind of old Egyptian version of Frankenstein's monster. A Franken-mummy, if you like. " Deep inside the pyramid, Carson Berkeley and Geoffrey Randall, tomb-looting archaeologists, locate the treasure of the evil sorcerer, Im-Kah-Ra. All that stands between them and their gold is a pathetic seven foot effigy of a mummified patchwork man.
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