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Post by dem bones on Sept 12, 2014 7:34:40 GMT
Thank you Mark. Another unexpected comic bonus is Jim Silke's Bettie Page: Queen of The Nile (Dark Horse, 2000), which pits our much-loved 'fifties pin-up versus - among others - a High Priest of Amon Ra and a giant-sized mummy. Later in the adventure, Bettie also gets into a grapple with her doppelgänger, Cleopatra. It's all the fault of the very rubbish time machine which has landed her in ancient Egypt. Another anthology of supernatural stories to consider is: Chad Arment (ed.) - Out of the Sand: Mummies, Pyramids, and Egyptology in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy (Coachwhip Publications, Sept. 2008) Theophile Gautier - The Mummy's Foot Edgar Allan Poe - Some Words with a Mummy Louisa May Alcott - Lost in a Pyramid Grant Allen - My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies Arthur Conan Doyle - The Ring of Thoth Arthur Conan Doyle - Lot No. 249 Guy Boothby - A Professor of Egyptology E. and H. Heron - The Story of Baelbrow Sax Rohmer - The Mysterious Mummy C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne - The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt S. Baring-Gould - Mustapha Algernon Blackwood - The Nemesis of Fire Algernon Blackwood - Sand H. Rider Haggard - Smith and the Pharaohs Sax Rohmer - In the Valley of the Sorceress Sax Rohmer - The Death-Ring of Sneferu Algernon Blackwood - The Wings of Horus Sax Rohmer - Lord of the Jackals E. F. Benson - The Ape Jeffery Farnol - Black Coffee"Twenty classic stories of horror, adventure, and mystery with a focus on Egyptology" runs the tag-line, and while not all of the stories are mummy-related - Baring-Gould's Mustapha is a tale of spectral revenge - its a very useful entry point.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 19, 2014 11:43:17 GMT
Henry Glassford Bell - The Living Mummy: ( My Old Portfolio, Or, Tales and Sketches and Poetical Pieces, 1832). According to Peter Haining, The Dictionary of National Biography for 1885 advises "Edgar Poe seems to have taken the hint for two of his most famous fantasies" from Bell's suitably morbid The Dead Daughter and the aforementioned The Living Mummy (as yet unread, but it's available via Project Gutenberg). Edward D. Wood, Jr. - The Day The Mummy Returned ( Blood Splatters Quickly: The Collected Stories of Edward D. Wood, jnr., Or Books, Oct. 31st 2014). Any worshipper at The Mummy's Shroud will tell you, including an attractive blonde on your expedition team is inviting trouble. Originally appeared in an innocuously-titled skin mag, Illustrated Case Histories (strap-line: "A Study of Voyeurism") in 1971, but despite this, Ed's horror short-short finds him at his calmest and least raunchy. Have enclosed a pdf for convenience sake but you are strongly advised to visit Boing Boing - which is where I found it - for the accompanying artwork and loads more great stuff to read! ? - Terror From The Mummy's Eye ( Horror Stories #7, October, 1971). Not to be confused with the shudder pulp of the same name, this Horror Stories ran for from October 1970 - October 1971 and provides much raw material for our terrifying Early Erotic Horror Anthologies & Mags thread. Not seen the issue in question, but don't need to to know it's the best thing ever. R. L. Stein - The Mummy's Dream: ( The Haunting Hour, Parachute 2001). The über-prolific and all-conquering Mr. Stein has penned several young adult mummy titles. this one scores on account of a grown up ending.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 6, 2014 19:27:37 GMT
Anonymous (Jane C. Webb Loudon) - The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (Henry Colburn, 1827)
I wondered, is this really the story which invented the basics? The living mummy, the search for the incarnation, all those plot points?
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Oct 7, 2014 6:31:12 GMT
Anonymous (Jane C. Webb Loudon) - The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (Henry Colburn, 1827) I wondered, is this really the story which invented the basics? The living mummy, the search for the incarnation, all those plot points? Intriguing question Andy. Given that 'The Castle of Otranto' was in the middle of 1700's, but was circulated as a genuine account, Vathek in 1786 would have possibly been the first Gothic novel to impact in a wider circle as some kind of 'horror' tale followed shortly by The Monk. Johnann Blumenbach the German anthropologist, visited England in 1791 and was publicly unwrapping dozens of mummies across England by 1792. This would certainly intrigue the public and might have led to the tale and a thirty year gap between witnessing this kind of thing and using it as imaginatively doesn't sound impossible: However, The basic plot of a mummified retainer would have been a a big imaginative leap. Flinders Petrie published accounts of retainer sacrifices only in the 1890's as far as I know. I'd really like to read this story - is it online somewhere.
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 7, 2014 7:16:17 GMT
I wondered, is this really the story which invented the basics? The living mummy, the search for the incarnation, all those plot points? There's a couple of paras about it in Icons of Horror, and it sounds underwhelming - more satirical and humorous than frightening.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 9, 2014 14:32:42 GMT
I wondered, is this really the story which invented the basics? The living mummy, the search for the incarnation, all those plot points? There's a couple of paras about it in Icons of Horror, and it sounds underwhelming - more satirical and humorous than frightening. There's a chapter-length excerpt in Wordsworth's Return From The Dead, so will try read that this evening should England V. San Marino prove less than riveting viewing .... Two more for the list (both most likely borderline cases). Michael Avallone - The Curse of Cleopatra (Michael Avallone [ed.], Tales Of The Frightened #1, Spring 1957). Modern day incarnation of former Queen of the Nile finds gainful employment as secretary to Mr. William Ramses at the Firm Fit Foundations bra company. Mr. Ramses researches her CV. Ledru Baker, Jr. - The Queen's Bedroom (Michael Avallone [ed.], Tales Of The Frighened #2, August 1957). Grubbing around in those claustrophobic tombs will be the death of famous Egyptologist, Dr. Barkley.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 10, 2014 7:15:24 GMT
Jane C. Webb - The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century: The extract reprinted in Return From The Grave is taken from early in the novel (which runs to approx. 600 pages). It seems that Miss Webb was not yet out of her teens when, inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, she tried her hand at proto-science fiction. It is A.D. 2126. Armed with a rudimentary transmitter & a set of spark plugs, Dr. Entwerfen, his all-action star pupil, Edric, and their manservant, Gregory, have flown by air-balloon from England to Egypt intent on reanimating the Pharaoh Cheops. The mummy, once unravelled, is an awesome sight: Cheops has not aged a day, he has an evil, hypnotic stare, and, once revived, almost chokes Edric with his withered arm. The sight of the Pharoah rising from his sarcophagus is too much for the party, all of whom either faint or temporarily lose their minds, allowing the once ruler of the Nile to leap aboard the balloon and launch it into the clouds - destination: London! Harry Ludlam - The Coming Of Jonathan Smith. Having re-read this during recent bout of killer man-flu, i'm undecided as to whether this convoluted, ultimately very sad Gothic pot-boiler - which has more of a witchcraft/ necromancy/ curse/ ghost theme - really belongs on the list although in it's favour, there is a nasty instance of attempted mummification by a bereaved Egyptologist, so am inclined to say ..... yes.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 24, 2015 8:30:11 GMT
The Mummy Megapack: 20 Classic and Modern Tales by Masters (Wildside Press, 2011) John Gregory Betancourt - Sympathy for Mummies Edgar Allan Poe - Some Words with a Mummy Nina Kiriki Hoffman - The Power of Waking Jessie Adelaide Middleton - The Mummy's Foot Louisa May Alcott - Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Ring of Thoth Théophile Gautier - The Romance of a Mummy William Call Spencer - The Green God Lafcadio Hearn - The Book of Thoth C. B. Cory - An Aztec Mummy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Lot No. 249 Théophile Gautier - The Mummy's Foot E. Heron and H. Heron - The Story of Baelbrow Guy Boothby - A Professor of Egyptology Grant Allen - My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Whatever Was Forgotten C. W. Leadbeater - The Forsaken Temple Henry Illiowizi - The Doom of Al Zameri Elliott O'Donnell - Obsession, Possession C. W. Leadbeater - The Perfume of EgyptWildside's contribution to mummy mania is another of their dirt cheap (at time of writing, 99p from Am*z*n UK; but be warned; the proof-reading, if it exists at all, is sub-Vault, which is really saying something), ebook only compilations of mostly vintage public domain material. Having read the Leadbeater stories elsewhere, I'm not so sure what either have to do with the theme though, to a modern, vile-minded audience, The Forsaken Temple is creepy for all the wrong reasons. "Underwhelming" doesn't begin to do justice to Jessie Adelaide Middleton's The Mummy's Foot, quite possibly the least scary death-dealing curse story ever committed to print. Grant Allen adopts a humorous approach to the subject as our narrator, a gent with an eye for the ladies, blunders into a centuries-hidden burial chamber to carouse with Egyptian nobility on the one night in every thousand years they are free to abandon their mummy cases. So taken is he with the flirtatious Princess Hatasou that he volunteers to undergo embalming rather than return to a world where he is doomed to marry ghastly-but-rich Miss Editha Fitz-Simkins. By way of a taster, here's two I made earlier (think one may have been swiped from the sadly defunct horrormasters, the other from Gutenberg. I merely cleaned 'em up a little).
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Post by dem bones on Mar 10, 2015 8:39:36 GMT
Max Allan Collins - The Mummy (Ebury Press, 1999) Blurb AN ANCIENT LEGEND
Some 3,700 years ago, lmhotep, Egyptian High Priest of Osiris, is mummified and entombed alive for his blasphemous crimes, cursed for all eternity...
A HEART-STOPPING ADVENTURE
Jump forward to the 1920s, and Rick O'Connell, dashing American and legionnaire, is in Egypt looking for a good time. His accidental discovery of the Lost City of the Dead is a fluke - but to British librarian Evelyn Carnahan, it's the archaeological find of the century. The ancient Necropolis contains all the bountiful treasures of Egypt – and possibly the secrets of life and death.
Leading Evelyn's archaeological expedition deep into the Sahara isn't exactly easy money for O'Connell. He and the team must dodge death traps, escape the jaws of man-eating scarab beetles, and even duel with a hook-handed mercenary. And just when they've caught their breath, an ancient evil returns from the grave – the terrifying Mummy himself ....Found a copy for 50p down the market on Sunday, plus a near-mint The Art Of Coarse Sex (total swizz. No photo-inset and sadly lacking in advice on how to chat up the embalmed). Rachel Weisz's prim and proper librarian-in-peril is adorable, but for me, it was the plague of carnivorous scarab beetles stole Stephen Sommers loose remake/ desecration of Universal's The Mummy, so if Max Allen Collins has stayed faithful to the movie we may well be looking at a borderline 'when insects attack!'
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Post by dem bones on Apr 16, 2015 9:48:41 GMT
Mummy update. Don't have a copy (cover borrowed from Am*z*n), but all the signs are there to suggest this is a companion volume to the Professor's brilliant The Vampyre: Lord Ruthven To Count DraculaChristopher Frayling (ed.) - The Face of Tutankhamun (Faber, 1992) Howard Carter - Autobiographical Notebooks [extracts] H. Rider Haggard - She [extracts] Amelia B. Edwards - One Thousand Miles Up The Nile Lord Carnarvon - Five Years' Exploration At Thebes Theodore Davis - The finding Of The tombs of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou Percy White - Cairo Howard Carter - The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen (extracts) Alfred Lucas, James Henry Breasted, Harry Burton, Arthur Mace, Minnie Burton, Acting-Sergeant Richard Adamson (various extracts)
Théophile Gautier - The Romance of the Mummy Théophile Gautier - The Mummy’s Foot Edgar Allan Poe - Some Words with a Mummy Bram Stoker - The Jewel of Seven Stars [chapter 20] Arthur Conan Doyle - The Ring of Thoth Sax Rohmer -The Valley of the Sorceress H. P. Lovecraft & Harry Houdini - Imprisoned with the Pharoahs [Punch Magazine] Comments on the latest craze Arthur Weigall -The Malevolence Of Ancient Egyptian Spirits Velma - The Fatal Curse From The Tomb Cheiro - A Mummy's Hand That Came To Life Frederick H. Wood - A Message From Ancient Egypt Peter Green - The Treasures Of Egypt Edward W. Said - Egyptian Rites Dennis Forbes- Abusing The Pharaoh* The recently published, Simon Clark-edited Mammoth Book Of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (Robinson, 2015) includes includes Cavan Scott's The Adventure of the Mummy’s Curse. * Friend Ripper provides a commentary on Sax Rohmer's 'Morris Klaw' adventure, The Headless Mummies.
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2015 17:54:26 GMT
Robert Leslie Bellem - The Murdered Mummy: ( Spicy Detective, Jan. 1943). Comic strip. Another case for Dan Turner, Hollywood detective. Who creamed fiery, maid-slapping divorcee Rita Reno, Altamount Studios' biggest star? Talk, sister, or I'll kiss the bejeepers out of you! Fulton Oursler - The Mystery Of The Ten Mummies ( Midnight Mystery Stories #16, December, 1922). A 'humorous' entry. Jeremiah Buffum, ukulele manufacturer, returns from Cairo with the mortal remains of the ten nobles of Sarat and founds the Egyptian Balsam Corporation. He's learned that essence of distilled mummy fluid makes for a powerful laxative. I try not to be harsh but this story truly is shite on a number of levels. Another pair of likely candidates from the shudder pulps Russell Gray - The Maid And The Mummy ( Dime Mystery, August 1937) Wayne Rogers - The Mummy Pack Prowls Again ( Dime Mystery, April 1937) "When that dreadful malady, which had destroyed half the youth of the village, threatened my adored Velma, I thought nothing worse could happen... I didn’t know, then, that worse indeed was the ghastly plague’s own soul-destroying cure!"
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Post by dem bones on Oct 27, 2015 20:14:10 GMT
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – The Awakening (Magnum Books, 1980) Blurb: 1658: Van Hoorn and Abdul discover an ancient tomb – that of Queen Kara, the Evil One. But the Curse of the Pharaohs falls upon them and both are killed in a terrible storm which reseals the tomb.
1961: Sir Matthew Corbeck and Jane Howell, after a long search using Van Hoorns’ notes, rediscover the tomb and bring out the mummy of Queen Kara.
Kara’s Spirit is determined to live again. Having waited thousands of years, her time is nearly right. When Sir Matthew ‘s daughter is 18, Kara makes her move. And with Sir Matthew’s help to reincarnate her, her evil powers grow again. Too late, he realises the danger to his daughter…and there is nothing he can do to stop it…Another recent find. Can't get to my mags right now but I remember RCH bragging to Stephen Jones in Skeleton Crew that he watched the film just the once, thought it was "stupid," and pocketed two grand for speed-writing a rip-off of H. Rider-Haggard. Should be a good read then.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 27, 2015 20:39:50 GMT
I thought THE AWAKENING was based on Bram Stoker's THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS. In fact, I am sure it is.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 27, 2015 21:03:54 GMT
I thought THE AWAKENING was based on Bram Stoker's THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS. In fact, I am sure it is. And you are right, but R.C.H. didn't know that until afterwards, when Arrow published a tie-in edition. Will post the exact quote when I can fight my way through to magazine rack.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 27, 2015 22:19:41 GMT
This turkey got a novelisation?
Compared to this "Blood from the Mummys tomb" should have won an Oscar. RCH was right.
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