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Post by dem bones on May 25, 2018 9:04:09 GMT
I much prefer the action-mummy to the kind that just lies around and does nothing. My favourite is the punting mummy. Seems it's their favoured mode of transport.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 27, 2018 16:10:53 GMT
Seems it's their favoured mode of transport. After all, swamps are well known as the natural habitats of 3,000-year-old desert monsters wearing dried-up wrappings. This spate of marsh mummies reminds me of the "Mummy Daddy" episode of the television series Amazing Stories (1985). When I was a kid, I watched that one on videotape over and over again. Bonus: The episode also features a film crew in peril.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 27, 2018 22:29:48 GMT
Seems it's their favoured mode of transport. They're often seen on the Cherwell, pursuing unwary undergraduates.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 12, 2018 21:06:27 GMT
More from Justin. Alas, no rowing boats. The Dr. Death adventure is revived from the 'thirties pulp mag bearing his name. The Leonard Cottrell is surely non-fiction? Zorro [Harold Ward] - Dr. Death #2: The Grey Creatures (Corinth, 1966) Robert Bonfils Blurb: Again, Death had snatched away vivacious Nina!
The mad mastermind of malevolence had reclaimed the beauteous maiden he had so long held in thrall until Jimmy Helm had wrested her from Death's cadaverous grasp, lovingly taking her for his own. Now, she was once more trapped in the weird web of the insane scientist-mystic, as that would-be destroyer of all civilization set out anew to wreak his wrath on the world. The trail led Jimmy through endless peril - constantly beset by the unimaginable monsters conjured up by Death's macabre magic; by the compelling fury of the madman's genius at mind-control - to a desolate, portentous tomb in Egypt, where the lovers and Doctor Death duelled to an unbelievable and unforgettable climax!Leonard Cottrell - The Secret of Tutankhamen's Tomb (Mayflower-Dell, 1964 [?]) Hector Garrido
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Post by dem bones on Jul 23, 2018 18:30:20 GMT
Janet Aulision Monster Movies David J. Schow - Monster Movies: ( Weird Tales, Spring 1990). Happy hour at a Los Angeles pick-up joint. Boardroom executive Kris is hot for her underling, Jason Fairchild, gets him reminiscing on a life-long affection for Universal's monster movies. His hero is the Mummy; "Kharis dragged one lame foot: his right arm had curled into a crippled claw and frozen against his chest; the conflagrent finale of The Mummy's Hand had welded his right eye shut forever. Kharis a handicapped monster, for christsake."Kicked out of Sunday school aged twelve, Jason's wicked stepmom desecrated his shrine, tearing down all the posters, burning his horror movie magazines, banned him from watching any more Friday night triple bills. He was glad when, some years later, she choked to death. Kris, realising that this stuff is a religion to Jason, reignites the passion by replacing his lost horde of Famous Monsters. True love at last. Am doubtless missing something important as none of this struck me as the least 'weird' - at a stretch, perhaps Kharis has gifted Jason a Princess Ananka of his own in repayment of a lifetime's devotion? - and it sure as f**k ain't "splatterpunk." "Upbeat romance story set in the corporate world" will have to do.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 18, 2018 9:57:33 GMT
George Griffith - The Lost Elixir: ( The Pall Mall Magazine, October 1903: Weird Tales, Summer 1974). The Narrative Club welcome tonight's special guest, the World famous globe-trotting archaeologist, Professor Hessetine, recently returned from an excavation site above one of the buried cities of Upper Egypt. The Professor tells of an extraordinary encounter with a fellow claiming to be Pent-ar, a centuries old priest of the Royal Blood in the House of Amen-Ra and Writer of the Sacred Records, who foolishly drank of the elixir of life. Long weary of this world, Pent-ar has at last learned of an antidote to accursed immortality via a scroll donated to the British Museum. He requests that the Professor accompany him to Susa to seek the Pyramid where his mummified bride lies, so he may kiss her lips and finally join her in Death. Francis D. Grierson - The Hall of the Dead: ( Weird Tales, April 1923). The first mummy-themed fiction to appear in the legendary pulp. An Egyptologist's obsession with the Princess Hora has fatal consequences for his beautiful young PA. R. L. Stine - The Mummy's Dream: ( The Haunting Hour, 2001). Commendably grim account of events at a kids party in the museum.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 26, 2018 18:16:54 GMT
More for the Mummy Scrapbook. Ed Whitham Robert S. Carr - Spider-Bite: ( Weird Tales, June 1926). Great White Egyptian Tomb-Spiders - a Resurrected Mummy - and the Jewels of Ahma-Ka in the Chamber of the PoolBill Pronzini celebrates this pair as classic bad novels in Son Of Gun In Cheek: An Affectionate Guide To More Of The Worst in Mystery Fiction (Dover, 2017) Mary Gaunt -The Mummy Moves. (T. Werner Laurie,1910: "An exciting detective story beginning with a horrible murder, which many people think was committed by a mummy." - The Spectator, 3 Dec. 1910) F. M. Pettee - The Palgrave Mummy. (Payson, 1929: "It beats the devil. It's diabolical. It's fiendish. It's just not right.") Ailise Bulfin's paper, The Fiction of Gothic Egypt and British Imperial Paranoia: The Curse of the Suez Canal (2011) doubles as an excellent resource for Victorian mummy lit. Particularly like the sound of the anonymous In The Catacombs( Reynold's Miscellany, June 1868), "a Poe-ian revenge in which a thwarted English suitor mummifies and abandons his rival in an ancient Egyptian tomb."
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Post by dem bones on Sept 6, 2018 8:14:06 GMT
Adam Hull Shirk - Osiris: ( Weird Tales, June, 1923). Have You Been Reading About King Tut? If so, You'll be Interested in 'Osiris', The Weird Tale of an Egyptian Mummy. Sir Richard Parmenter returns to London from a successful excavation, knowing his time is short. The famous Egyptologist's doom was sealed when he prized open the sarcophagus of the Lord of Death! Henry Rawle - The Head of Ekillon: ( Ghosts and Goblins: Uncanny Tales For Hardened Readers, World's Work, 1938). An archaeologist is tormented by the flying head of a decapitated three-thousand-year-old mummy.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2018 18:25:52 GMT
Thanks to Justin Marriott for alerting us to the Badger Books bandage brigade. Michael Hamilton (John S Glasby) - Vengeance of Set (Supernatural Stories #1, May 1954) Ray Cosmic (John S Glasby) - The Golden Scarab (Supernatural Stories #8, Autumn 1955) Bron Fane (R. Lionel Fanthorpe) - The Crawling Fiend (Supernatural Stories #30, June 1960) Bron Fane (R. Lionel Fanthorpe) - The Green Sarcophagus (Supernatural Stories #41, March 1961) Bron Fane (R. Lionel Fanthorpe) - The Eye Of Karnak (Supernatural Stories #49, Oct 1961) John E. Muller (R. Lionel Fanthorpe) - The Secret Of The Pyramid (Supernatural Stories #56, April 1962) R. Lionel Fanthorpe - Sands Of Eternity (Supernatural Stories #73, April 1963) R. Lionel Fanthorpe - The Sealed Sarcophagus (Supernatural Stories #101, Dec. 1965) It's possible this one may also be of interest: Olaf Trent (R. Lionel Fanthorpe) - Valley Of The Kings (Supernatural Stories #85, Jan. 1964)
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Post by dem bones on Sept 8, 2018 17:19:48 GMT
T. Wyatt Nelson Clark Ashton Smith - The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis: ( Weird Tales, May 1932). A powerful story of a crawling horror, a weird vampirism that ate the brains of the explorers. Allan Octave and his eight-strong party of archaeologists visit the ruins of a shunned ancient desert city on Mars. While exploring the catacombs they discover a cowled, seven foot mummy shackled to the cave wall by metal bands. Removal of the hood reveals its head has been eaten away. The "cowl" takes to the air and attacks, wrapping itself around Octave's head and feasting on his brain. Several of its kind descend from the roof and set about the rest of the team. Luckily for the ghouls among us, Rodney Severn, a newcomer to Mars, somehow survives ensuing massacre just long enough to dictate harrowing final report. Mummy, understandably impassive throughout, is truly magnificent.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 9, 2018 14:14:37 GMT
Burton Egbert Stevenson - A King In Babylon (Maynard, 1917) W. H. D. Koerner Blurb: The story of an American moving picture company in the Egyptian desert.Surely among the very earliest film-crew-in-peril/ mummy hybrids. Download free pdf from Archive.org. Also available in audio via a popular file-sharing network.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 12, 2018 5:35:50 GMT
Bill Everett Art Stampler - The Skeletons Of Doom: ( Nightmare #1, Skywald, Dec. 1970). "Incredible as it might sound, these skeleton creatures were indeed the ancient Pharaohs. For when they died, and were mummified, the Goddess of the Moon, Isis, placed them in a state of nether being in that they were not fully dead, nor were they fully alive." Myra Cummings, archaeologist, and Allen Clift, the famous English big-game hunter, are among a party taken captive by subterranean skeleton men. The disciples of Isis are bent on raising an immortal living dead army to conquer the earth's surface! Compton Irving - Daughter of Egypt (Philip Allan, 1937). Blurb: The story of a vestal virgin of Tutankhamen's time, whose mummy is resuscitate and brought back to life and love in the present day - as prophesied by an ancient legend. Once the "incredible" has happened, we have the reaction of this waif from the dim past to this present day world of slick realism and speed. Frank Revel - who fell in love with her death mask long before Sais Nefert came back from the shades - strives to protect her from the sensation mongering journalists who flock to Luxor: and especially from that mad occultist, Prince El-Rama, a modern son of Egypt who claims that he is the man destined by the gods to take care of the immortal Sais. So we have the clash of religion and race, the clash of passion and hate, and, throughout, an eerie sense ot the occult.
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Post by Dr Strange on Sept 12, 2018 9:22:51 GMT
Bill Everett God, that is so '70s. Loved Nightmare as a kid.
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Post by cromagnonman on Sept 12, 2018 10:32:40 GMT
Bill Everett God, that is so '70s. Loved Nightmare as a kid. It is terrific isn't it. And it reminded me that a thirty foot high mechanical mummy featured (very briefly) in Monster Fun's wonderful "March of the Mighty Ones" strip. Look closely and you'll see him in the first panel of the second page of the first episode: As I remember it, he's seen striding off in the second episode but was never encountered again. He certainly wasn't part of the army of fifty monsters that was destroyed in the last strip. Presumably he's still out there somewhere. Punting probably.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 14, 2018 8:46:18 GMT
God, that is so '70s. Loved Nightmare as a kid. Turns out we had three mini-threads devoted to Nightmare, Psycho and Scream so have merged them into a Skywald feature. I think it looks lovely! Uncredited artwork "He lowered his gaze shamefacedly from her plunging, well-filled neckline ...." Clyde Mitchell (Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg) - The Mummy Takes a Wife: ( Fantastic, Dec. 1956). Luscious Linda was the kind of gal to make a mummy kick a hole in his sarcophagus. And there was the Belt of Osiris. It made old men young and young men, well anyhow. Linda spent all her time running until the mummy - oops! Don't want to give it away!Mildly racy goings on aboard the Queen Victoria as Doctors Avery Armitage and Leslie Bingham secure the sarcophagus of Khama-Ptah-hor-Amen III in the ships hold for journey home to Miskatonic University. Standing in their way, a ruthless gangster bent on stealing the the Pharaoh's jewels and a demented Sorcerer, Ahnku the Ancient, equally determined to make away with the mummy. And, as mentioned above, there is the Belt of Osiris. As Dr. Armitage explains to avid daughter Linda, the girdle is said to confer immortality and "tremendous physical and - uh - amorous powers" to he or she who wears it. Imagine if some fool were to tie it around the mummy's waist .... Dennis Wheatley – A Life For A Life: ( Pall Mall Magazine, Nov 1935). Herbert Sandmeyer, a psychic who once used his powers to murder a love rival, falls ill in the Egyptian Gallery at the British Museum. Thereafter his dreams are haunted by the vampiric ghost of a mummified woman to the point where he no longer dare sleep. Edgar Wallace - The Curse of Amen-ra: ( McCall’s, May 1956). Non-fiction/ "non-fiction." Concise account of the several deaths surrounding discovery and excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb is a capable supernatural horror short in it's own right.
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