John Richard Stephens - Into the Mummy's Tomb

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John Richard Stephens (ed.) - Into the Mummy's Tomb (Berkley, 2001)

Danilo Ducak

John Richard Stephens - Introduction: The Truth of the Mummy's Curse

Arthur Weigall - The Malevolence of Ancient Egyptian Spirits
Louisa May Alcott - Lost In A Pyramid, or, The Mummy's Curse
Amelia B. Edwards - Raiding Mummies' Tombs
Theodore Davis - Raiding Mummies' Tombs
Arthur Weigall - Raiding Mummies' Tombs
Giovanni Belzoni - Raiding Mummies' Tombs
Tennessee Williams - The Vengeance of Nitocris
H.P. Lovecraft - Under the Pyramids (aka Imprisoned with the Pharaohs)
Howard Carter with A.C. Mace - Opening King Tutankhamen's tomb
Agatha Christie - The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
An Ancient Egyptian Priest - The Demon-possessed Princess
Mark Twain - The Majestic Sphinx
Sir H. Rider Haggard - Smith and the Pharaohs
Edgar Allan Poe - Some Words With A Mummy
Ray Bradbury – Colonel Stonesteel’s Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy
Rudyard Kipling - Dead kings (excerpt)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Lot no. 249
Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Michaels) - The Locked Tomb Mystery
Sax Rohmer - The Death-ring of Sneferu
Anne Rice - The Mummy, or Ramses The Damned (Excerpt)
Bram Stoker - The Jewel of the Seven Stars (Abridged).

Blurb:

"The Mummy." The first things that come to mind are the curse... reanimation... and revenge. But what further mysteries are to be unwrapped in the tombs of the Ancient Egyptians? And what horrors still lie buried in the imaginations of the immortal talents who have explored this realm of the fantastic? In this thrilling anthology, writers as diverse as Anne Rice (unveiling a chilling excerpt from her novel The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned), Tennessee Williams (in his first published piece), Louisa May Alcott (at her most unexpectedly startling), and an actual Egyptian priest (penning his tale in 3oo B.C.), venture Into the Mummy's Tomb for tales of the undead that have survived for eternity in nightmares of the living.

Another fact, 'fact' and fiction amalgamation. Have already encountered several of these elsewhere, including Lot No. 249,
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, and Some Words With A Mummy.


Tennessee Williams - The Vengeance of Nitocris: (Weird Tales, August 1928). The Pharaoh is a man of angry moods. When a bridge, five years in the constructing, collapses into the Nile, he spectacularly desecrates the Temple of Osiris. The people of Thebes, mindful that their outraged God is likely to destroy them in horrible fashion, take the only option open to them. They tear the Pharaoh apart and proclaim Nitocris, his fair and well-loved sister, as Empress. Nitocris endears herself to the people by building a glorious new shrine to Osiris, and invites those instrumental in the murder of her brother to a launch orgy in the Vaults ...

No mummy in this one.

Louisa May Alcott - Lost In A Pyramid, or, The Mummy's Curse: (The New World, Jan. 16 1869). Lost in the narrow subterranean passages of Cheops, Paul Forsyth and Professor Niles first burn a mummy casket, then, it's occupant, to attract help, but not before helping themselves to souvenirs. Paul ill-advisedly removes the box clasped in the mummy's hands, the professor, a parchment which reveals that their bonfire was a sorceress who bequeathed a curse on whoever should disturb her tomb. Much to Paul's disappointment, the box contains only a handful of shrivelled seeds.

Back home, Paul's fiancé, Evelyn, plants one of the seeds, which blossoms into a white demon flower, just in time for her to wear at their wedding ....

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Sax Rohmer - The Death-ring of Sneferu: (Tales Of Egypt, 1918). A race against time as Kernaby and his smarter, psychic sidekick, Abu Tabah, must prevent would-be tomb-looter Theo Bishop from stealing the death-dealing relic. Brief cameo from a mummy army comprised of the many victims of the Pharaoh's curse, and Abu's sister is gorgeous as only a Rohmer woman can be, but story nothing like as gripping as the early Fu-Manchu adventures.

[bobby]

    How could they leave out Robert Bloch's "The Eyes of the Mummy"?

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Sept 27, 2015 2:08:30 GMT bobby said:

    How could they leave out Robert Bloch's "The Eyes of the Mummy"?

To be fair, Bloch's story features in so many Mummy-themed anthologies, I'm quite relieved Mr. Stephens saw fit not to include it. I'd rather he'd also overlooked the equally over-familiar Lot no. 249 and Some Words With A Mummy in favour of lesser known material.