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Post by dem bones on Sept 17, 2018 17:21:09 GMT
Thanks to Christian Daber's Gruselromane site, can belatedly identify two of the artists responsible for the marvellous punting mummy paintings. And, fair do's, thanks to g**gle translate, can also paste a loose translation of the blurb. Jason Dark - Amoklauf der Mumie: Gespenster-Krimi Nr. 85 (Ghost Mystery #85: Rampage of the mummy. Neuer Roman, 1975) Martin Blurb: Phil Lester, the young archaeologist, gasped with excitement. The heavy flashlight in his hand was shaking. The ray of light danced restlessly over the meter-thick stone blocks. Phil Lester had achieved his goal. He was the first person to find the grave. The tomb of the An Choir Amon! For years, scientists from all over the world had searched for this legendary tomb, and he, Phil Lester, had succeeded. Incomprehensible! Reluctantly, Phil Lester entered the burial chamber. Three or four meters separated him from the huge mummy. And there it happened. All of a sudden the ground gave way under Lester's feet. As the young scientist uttered his first scream of terror, he was already racing into the yawning depths ...Reissue: John Sinclair Classics #17, Bastei, 1997 "In addition: The new scary shocker by Graham Masterton" Vicente Ballestar
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Post by andydecker on Sept 17, 2018 18:09:17 GMT
Well done, Dem!
On the Draber site, which is sadly inactive since a few years, but an invaluable recource for information and covers, this is not the blurp, but the actual beginning of the novel, the first sentences.
I like the original cover from 75 better. While Ballestar is (rightly) seen as THE Sinclair artist, I never was a fan.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 17, 2018 19:18:47 GMT
this is not the blurp, but the actual beginning of the novel, the first sentences. That's the first sentences? Man, there's enough going on in there for an entire Mummy chronicles. I like the original cover from 75 better. While Ballestar is (rightly) seen as THE Sinclair artist, I never was a fan. There's a third version of the cover - 'Martin' again? - with the mummy in pursuit of a brunette in a red dress, looking for all the world like she's strayed out of The Birthday Party's Swampland. Am deeply fond of Vincente Ballestar's Gothic horrors. It's taken me 'til now to put a name to a series of paintings - in particular, one depicting an air hostess who has just realised she's sharing a plane with a vast number of animated skeletons - I've long admired without any idea who was responsible for them. A very fetching mini-gallery begins here
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Post by helrunar on Sept 17, 2018 19:26:33 GMT
Go Mad with Mummy in Darkest Dusseldorf. Film at 5.
cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 22, 2018 17:17:19 GMT
Robert Bloch – The Secret Of Sebek: ( Weird Tales, Nov. 1937). What grisly horror, spawned in ancient Egypt, stalked through the weird house in New Orleans?. Visiting New Orleans during Mardi Gras, Bloch falls in with Black Magician Henricus Manning and his intimate circle of esoteric friends. The Coffin Club intend to involve the two thousand year old mummy of a Priest of Sebek in their blasphemous rites. The crocodile-headed God, murderously loyal to his Priests, takes a keen interest in their affairs. Prequel to The Eyes of the Mummy. Art Sampler - Time Stop. ( Nightmare #2, Feb. 1971). "... they ignored me as if I was so much sewage waste." Cosmic Sci-horror as two humanoid extra-terrestrials arrive in Egypt from the planet Frelm IV to indulge in tomb-looting. With the help of guide Fradkin (who is way out of his depth), Dr. Vetry and Vera, "his slimy alien daughter", locate the pyramid of the "Mad Priest' of Anubis," reputedly condemned to eternal life for daring to challenge his horrible God's dominion. Needless to say, the pair want to share immortality, but does that make them the bad guys? Not when you've met their fellow Frelmians. By the time Fradkin realises this, it is too late for all of us. Aldwyn C. S. Tibbett - "Binkie": (Charles Lloyd [Charles Birkin] [ed], Nighmares, Philip Allan, 1933). Last night a mummified pussycat saved my life.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 30, 2018 19:12:29 GMT
Guy N. Smith - Accursed (Arrow, 1983: originally NEL, 1983) Blurb: The Brownlows lived an unremarkable suburban life until the day they found the Egyptian amulet buried in their garden.
Inscribed with ancient writings of ‘Set’. the earliest god of evil. it would unleash a hideous curse...
And they are the powerless victims - in the ultimate holocaust.Picked this up at the Pulp Fair on Sunday, one from his pessimistic period ( Doomflight, Abomination, Warhead, etc) if the blurb is to be taken at face value. Here's what Justin Marriott had to say about it in Pulp Horror 7: The Mummy Lives!.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 8, 2018 21:51:29 GMT
R. Lionel Fanthorpe - The Sealed Sarcophagus: ( Supernatural Stories #101, Badger, Dec. 1965). Leading supernatural author, R. Lionel Fanthorpe, who has recently been made a member of Mensa, heads this collection with The Sealed Sarcophagus, a breath-taking story of a dauntless girl explorer and the undying guardians of a forbidden tomb.Olaf Trent R. (Lionel Fanthorpe) - Valley Of The Kings: ( Supernatural Stories #85, Badger, Jan. 1964). A story which combines the author's rare knowledge of Egyptology with a plot full of gradually unfolding insinuated horror. Don Webb - Incident in the Western Lands: (Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg (eds.) - Horrors! 365 Scary Stories: Get Your Daily Dose of Terror, Barnes & Noble 1998). A lifelong Egyptologist purloins an amulet from the museum. PtahSokarNakt is delighted. He needs a replacement mummy to guard his tomb now the original has rotted away .... Griffin Jay & Henry Sucher – The Mummy’s Ghost: (Peter Haining [ed.], The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, Severn House, 1988). "Specially adapted" from the original screenplay. Having improbably survived cremation when the Banning House burnt down, Kharis, the serial-strangling four- thousand-year-old mummy, returns to Mapleton, New England to resume his search for the Princess Ananka. Elliott O'Donnell - The Mummy Worshippers: ( Strange Cults & Secret Societies of Modern London, Philip Allan, 1934). Colonel Bobdillo gets lucky with ghost of amorous princess at pop-up tomb in Upper Norwood. She's an Olympic standard kisser. A. Hyatt Verrill - The Flying Head: ( Strange Stories, June 1939). Dr. Stokes excavates a tomb in the Peruvian desert. It's freaky guardian makes short work of him. Ray Bradbury - Colonel Stonesteel's Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy: ( Omni, May 1981). Twelve-year-old Charlie Flagstaff has the misfortune to live in Green Town, Illinois, where nothing ever happens - until his old friend, the Colonel, patches together an authentic Egyptian Pharaoh from dreams and debris. Between them they enliven the Labor Day celebrations. Whimsical fantasy, nauseating nostalgia, etc.
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Post by helrunar on Nov 9, 2018 0:04:47 GMT
Marvelous selecton. Olaf Trent R, yet another alter ego of the indefatigable, irrepressible and seemingly inexhaustible Rev Lionel Fanthorpe, makes one think of noted Edwardian literary doyenne, Mrs Regera Dowdy.
H.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 1, 2019 9:51:31 GMT
Jack Binder Arlton Eadie - The Carnival of Death ( Weird Tales Sept-Dec 1935). A thrilling mystery story of the present day - an eery adventure with a Golden Mummy, and strange death that walked at night.Joe R. Lansdale - The Mummy Buyer: ( Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, March 1981). Nayland Jones visits Cairo determined to procure a mummy for his personal museum. Braving the beggar hordes, he eventually tracks down a a dealer as unscrupulous as himself. Reads like John Keel's The Mummy Maker with a proper horror ending. Stephen D. Rogers - Curse of the Mummy: ( Anotherealm, Aug, 2002; Dead Man Walking, Apr, 2004). Wayward tech wizard David hacks into the Natural History Museum's computer, turns the heating up full and sets off every sprinkler in the Egyptian room. The dramatic climate change revives an ancient mummy, who sets out on a marathon shamble to track down those responsible for disturbing his eternal sleep. Esther M. Friesner - The Curse of Psamlahkithotep: ( Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1990). "As you may have gathered from the title and the author, the story that follows is not an entirely serious one. As you may not have gathered, it concerns a severed hand and a curse ..." Probably qualifies, but, as you may also have gathered from the title and the author, it's not so easy summoning sufficient enthusiasm to find out.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 15, 2019 20:04:37 GMT
Andrew Brosnatch Donald Edward Keyhoe - The Grim Passenger: ( Weird Tales, April 1925). Was the Steamship Titanic Destroyed by an Egyptian Curse?. Action archaeologist Thomas D. Stevenson defies an inscription promising death to any who defile the the tomb of a dead King. One by one, those who reluctantly assist in conveying the mummy-case to the docks are killed. Stevenson makes it home to England but dies raving that the mummy, now on display in the British Museum, must be returned to its home. Laughing off the "curse," a Mr. Basil G. Stoddard secures it for display in America. Consequently, The Titanic sets out on her maiden voyage with a "rather gruesome bit of cargo."
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 16, 2019 12:30:10 GMT
There was what we'd now call an urban myth about a mummy on the Titanic doing the rounds before this story - I read about it in Roger Luckhurst's (non-fiction) Mummy's Curse book, which is highly recommended (but a bit pricey).
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Post by dem bones on Jan 16, 2019 19:24:49 GMT
There was what we'd now call an urban myth about a mummy on the Titanic doing the rounds before this story - I read about it in Roger Luckhurst's (non-fiction) Mummy's Curse book, which is highly recommended (but a bit pricey). Thanks Dr. S. Have heard great things about Mr. Luckhurst's book but the asking price is way out of my league. From memory, Jessie Adelaide Middleton alludes to the Titanic-cursed mummy casket in The Mummy's Foot ( Another Grey Ghost Book, 1915). As we might expect, R. Thurston Hopkins' provides a "factual" account in The Demon Mummy Case ( Cavalcade Of Ghosts, 1956). Think Elliott O'Donnell may also have got in on the act.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 17, 2019 10:38:54 GMT
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Post by dem bones on Jan 17, 2019 18:06:03 GMT
If true, the story didn't take long to circulate. Jessie Adelaide Middleton's The Mummy's Foot, published 1915, begins: "Nothing would induce me to write the full story of the mummy at the British Museum, though an Egyptian friend has given me some information which throws a little further light on the matter. I think the subject is one to be left severely alone, and I only wish the late Mr. Fletcher Robinson, whom I knew, had thought so too, and consequently avoided ill." My memory let me down as The Mummy's Foot makes no mention of The Titanic, though we can conveniently assume this was crucial to the story JAM was too fearful to commit to print. On a similar note. Have not read it, but according to E. F. Bleiler, Morgan Robertson's novel, Futility (1898), "is a prophetic account of the destruction of a great, new ocean liner, The Titan, on it's maiden voyage. It hit an iceberg."
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 17, 2019 19:24:10 GMT
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