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Post by dem bones on Jun 17, 2008 21:40:47 GMT
David Stuart Davis (ed.) - Return From The Dead (Wordsworth Editions, 2006) Bram Stoker - The Jewel of the Seven Stars Jane Webb - The Mummy Edgar Allen Poe - Some Words with a Mummy Arthur Conan Doyle - The Ring of Thoth Arthur Conan Doyle - Lot 249 Blurb: A collection of Mummy stories selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies
Beware, the Dead are coming back! This is a unique and fascinating collection of early mummy stories that helped to establish the chilling concept of the Dead returning to life as a potent sub-genre of horror fiction.
The main feature on the mummy bill, The Jewel of the Seven Stars by Bram Stoker, is generally regarded as his best work after Dracula. A weird mixture of adventure, the supernatural and science fiction is found in Jane Webb's The Mummy, a tale written in 1827 but set in 2126. Some Words with a Mummy is by the great horror writer Edgar Allen Poe. Arthur Conan Doyle's The Ring of Thoth is the classic mummy tale and was the basis for the 1932 movie 'The Mummy' starring Boris Karloff and, indeed most mummy films ever since. Lot 249, another Doyle chiller, completes this collection, which is guaranteed to entertain and possibly prompt a nightmare.I don't think any other book company does value for money like Wordsworth. Most of them sell at £2.50 a time unless you buy yours from some unscrupulous money-grabbing fiend on eBay or Abe's in which case they're probably about 100 times the cover price. Return From The Dead looks like as good a place as any to pick up a copy of Stoker's The Jewel Of The Seven Stars, provided it's not a condensed version which, knowing Wordsworth's excellent track record to date, it most likely isn't. As with Children Of The Night, I don't have a copy so confirmation of the stories would be most welcome.
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Post by wordswortheditions on Oct 27, 2008 13:33:25 GMT
David Stuart Davis (ed.) - Return From The Dead (Wordsworth Editions, 2006) I don't think any other book company does value for money like Wordsworth. Most of them sell at £2.50 a time unless you buy yours from some unscrupulous money-grabbing fiend on eBay or Abe's in which case they're probably about 100 times the cover price. Return From The Dead looks like as good a place as any to pick up a copy of Stoker's The Jewel Of The Seven Stars, provided it's not a condensed version which, knowing Wordsworth's excellent track record to date, it most likely isn't. As with Children Of The Night, I don't have a copy so confirmation of the stories would be most welcome. Thanks for the kind words, we really appreciate input from our customers I can confirm that the content list is indeed correct, and that The Jewel of the Seven Stars is included in its entirety. All of our books are listed on Amazon, so you can usually pick up the Mystery & Supernatural range on there at RRP (£2.99) or slightly less.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 27, 2008 14:02:36 GMT
Thanks for the confirmation. There's a Vault site of sorts devoted to British anthologies on WordPress and we like to be as accurate as possible. Thanks for the kind words, we really appreciate input from our customers Well, we're not exactly renowned for our kind words (those poor Robinsons Best New Horrors!), but I've not read one negative remark about what you're doing on here, which, again, is some going.
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 15, 2008 16:06:12 GMT
i really liked this one. mummies are, to be frank, not really my thing (as with vampires) and this edition does a wonderful job in bringing together the cream of mummy fiction for a reader like me and allowing me to really enjoy the sub genre.
'ring of thoth' was good and 'lot 249' suddenly reminded me that i had the illustrated penguin one of it when i was a child! i enjoyed 'lot 249' a lot. 'the jewel of the seven stars' had a lot of things that i like about the age it was written in - very nice!
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Post by lobolover on Nov 15, 2008 16:13:05 GMT
Id like to get to "Jwell" myself soon,
As for "Some Words with a Mummy"-uh?Why is it here?
Also,the Web-is it anything even remotely interesting (the early gothics have stoped dis-ilusioning me)
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