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Post by dem bones on Jun 6, 2021 10:24:52 GMT
A two-pager from the Van Reid selection: Lady Arabella Romilly - The Mummy Necklace: ( Lady’s Realm, Feb. 1899). A true story, as experienced by the author. Father presents her with an heirloom said to have been taken from around the neck of a mummy. At first Arabella loves the necklace, wears it all the time, but there's something sinister about it. She falls ill with a wasting sickness. On examining the necklace it's discovered the tooth-like beads have drawn blood! Lady Arabella is persuaded to remove the necklace. That night she is awoken by an unwelcome visitor.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 6, 2021 11:39:53 GMT
These are interesting entries, Dem.
I always had the impression - not grounded in any research whatsoever - that the interest in Egypt and mummies in England was more a past WWI thing. Carter and Tut and so on. But if you see how popular the topic in fiction was even before the turn of the century, I guess I was wrong.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 6, 2021 15:52:40 GMT
These are interesting entries, Dem. I always had the impression - not grounded in any research whatsoever - that the interest in Egypt and mummies in England was more a past WWI thing. Carter and Tut and so on. But if you see how popular the topic in fiction was even before the turn of the century, I guess I was wrong.
I thought this went back to Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, when there was a sudden vogue for anything from Egypt's ancient past, especially when French academics began to unearth things from tombs they were for the first time given access.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 6, 2021 17:12:31 GMT
Definitely agree that Napoleon's invasion and the extraordinary publication Description de l'Egypte that resulted from it was a benchmark moment. But Egypt mania crested a few times in the salons of 18th century London, Paris and Rome. Cagliostro, Mesmer, etc. There's an interesting book on the topic of Egypt in the European imagination that came out sometime in the 1970s or 1980s if I recall aright, but typically, I can't remember the title.
H.
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Post by humgoo on Jun 7, 2021 3:10:38 GMT
There's an interesting book on the topic of Egypt in the European imagination that came out sometime in the 1970s or 1980s if I recall aright, but typically, I can't remember the title. Not the one you refer to, but I once read (felt like three centuries ago) Nina Burleigh's Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt. Not particularly academic, but full of anecdotes and illos (so suited me)!
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Post by dem bones on Jun 7, 2021 11:01:29 GMT
There's an interesting book on the topic of Egypt in the European imagination that came out sometime in the 1970s or 1980s if I recall aright, but typically, I can't remember the title. Not the one you refer to, but I once read (felt like three centuries ago) Nina Burleigh's Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt. Not particularly academic, but full of anecdotes and illos (so suited me)! Had this one from the library, most likely around time we began this thread. Can't remember much about it other than finding it much of interest, and adoring the colour insets. Will try re-loan if/ when libraries reopen (doesn't seem the kind of book anyone in their right mind would charity shop). Bob Breir - Mummy-Mania: Our Three thousand year obsession with the land of the Pharaohs (Palgrave Macmillan , 2013) "FROM BOOKS IT WAS ONLY A SMALL STEP TO prints, engravings, comics, watercolours, posters. and everything else that now fills my apartment. From two-dimensional prints It was easy to move to objects. And what objects they are! In 1808 the famous English Wedgwood porcelain factory produced an extraordinary Egyptian tea service to commemorate Admiral Nelson defeating Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of the Nile. It's fabulous, but Josiah Wedgwood's Egyptian set is no more wonderful than my cheap World War II-era made-in-Japan tea service with hand-painted pyramids. palm trees, and camels. Both sets are displayed In close proximity to Barbie of the Nile and the King Tut Cologne bottle. We all know that something can be so bad that it's good. The true collector has no shame."
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Post by dem bones on Jun 27, 2021 5:29:13 GMT
E Hoffman Price - Tailor Made Mummy: ( Spicy Mystery Stories, July 1936). Handling mummies was Foster's business - but he didn't think the job included butchering a beautiful girl to fake an Egyptian Queen!Wealthy through an uncle's inheritance, a crooked chemist, Merrill Kane, has his Arab muscle abduct a beautiful girl from New York's Syrian quarter. Kane's plans for young Nefeyda are non-spicy but horrible. She is to be embalmed and sold to the Cosmopolitan Museum as the mummified remains of the fabled Queen Hatshepsu! Denis Foster, an out of work granite-chinned Egyptologist, is prevailed upon to first demonstrate his art on the corpse of a gorgeous suicide, then repeat the process on poor Nefeyda while she yet lives! Complicating the set up, Ida, Kane's neglected, amorous, scheming wife, who has the hots for Foster. It should also be mentioned that Kane's hook-nosed henchmen, Hassan and Selin, are necrophiliacs. Fists fly, Knives slash, dresses fall, globes bounce, giblets spill. A standard spicy, in other words.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 27, 2021 15:29:19 GMT
How shocking. Mother repeated over and over as a catechism that a gentleman never ever strikes a lady. I'm afraid Mr Price was no gentleman.
H.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jun 27, 2021 15:31:39 GMT
How shocking. Mother repeated over and over as a catechism that a gentleman never ever strikes a lady. I'm afraid Mr Price was no gentleman.H. He is a fiend and I won't have it! Dr Strange it's pistol time!
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Post by dem bones on Nov 11, 2021 7:55:14 GMT
Anon - Vengeance with a Smile: ( Wizard, Nov. 15 1975 - ?). Text serial from the D C Thomson comic. This is the story up to the December 1975 instalment: FOR NEW READERS. A great mystery surrounds the mummy of Azmy the Magician, which has been brought from Egypt to England. The mummy seems to have killed three members of the expedition which had brought it back. Detective-Inspector Peter Dibben is in charge of the case and he flies out to Egypt to find Fraser and Gulben, the surviving members of the expedition, and two friends at the tomb. They have been responsible for the Azmy murders. Knowing that these two will recognise him, Dibben stages an "accident" and makes it look as though he has fallen to his death down an ancient well. While excavations are started on the tomb of Azmy, he hides out in the temple ruins. Illustration Fred Van Deleen, from Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets, 2005. Advertisement for Quinn's story from Weird Tales, March 1928. L. H. Maynard - Another Bite of the Cherry: ( Beyond the Curtain: Uncanny Tales of the Theatre, 2021). A West End performer's infatuation with an ancient Egyptian mummy threatens the life and soul of a model in a tableau vivant. Thanks to Justin Fanatic of the Marriott Escort Agency for providing sample instalments of Vengeance with a Smile
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Post by dem bones on Feb 25, 2022 17:39:03 GMT
Thank you — again — Mr. Justin Marriott for providing scans; Not sure, but story may continue for a further half page?
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Post by helrunar on Feb 25, 2022 20:46:40 GMT
Fabulous, Dem. It's all tried and true and of course, I love every word.
cheers, Hel
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Post by dem bones on Aug 17, 2022 7:41:58 GMT
Allen Koszowski , for Ramsey Campbell's Wrapped Up, Cemetery Dance #10, Fall 1991. John Richard Stephens - The Curse of the Mummy: ( Fortean Times #136, Aug. 2000). John Richard Stephens investigates the claim that a mummy's curse sank the 'Titanic'. Possibly related to the 'Mummy on the Titanic' sequence of his introduction to Into the Mummy's Tomb? Paul Newman – Still Life: (Christopher Wood [ed], 2nd BHF Book of Horror, 2007). A young English tourist is fascinated by a particular corpse in the Museum of the Mummies of Guanajuato. The dead woman, whose husband visits to pray before her every day, was the victim of premature burial during the cholera epidemic of fifty years ago.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 11, 2023 17:58:50 GMT
Harry Lemon Parkhurst Will Garth - Fulfilment: ( Strange Stories, Apr. 1939). Out of the piled-up centuries, comes an inexorable summons for the Twin of Isames!. Marjorie, 26, heiress to the Westbrook Motor Co. millions, is disturbed by a series of vivid, recurring dreams recalling a past incarnation as Isira, an Egyptian Princess of six thousand years ago. Could there be some connection with the sarcophagus and headless mummy she purchased on impulse at auction? Why did a gypsy fortune-teller refuse to read her palm? Ulric Daubeny - Matheson's Mummy: ( The Elemental: Tales of the Supernormal and the Inexplicable, 1919). An art student collapses in the bath. Drowning, Matheson's spirit passes across the studio into the three-thousand-year-old mummy he rashly liberated from Thebes. The young man watches through the mummy's shrunken, eyeless sockets as a doctor attempts to resuscitate his lifeless body. Amelia Mangan - I Was a Teenage Mummy Girl: (Theresa Derwin [ed], Killer Bees from Outer Space, 2015). A withered, desiccated husk is taken for a peeping tom at the drive-in.
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Post by dem bones on May 7, 2023 12:42:51 GMT
Brian J Frost - The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature (Scarecrow, 2008). Acknowledgments Introduction
The Mummy in Fiction and Films Bibliography
Novels Young Adult Novels and Children's Storybooks Short Stories and Novelettes Poems Anthologies Nonfiction Books Children's Reference Books Literature and Film Guides
Filmography
Index About the AuthorBlurb: Few symbols have exerted such a hold on our imaginations as the mummy. In 1834, Thomas J. Pettigrew's A History of Egyptian Mummies was the first scholarly work devoted to the subject, providing a remarkable analysis of the different mummification techniques used by ancient embalmers. Volumes of serious nonfiction have been supplemented over the years by additional scholarly and fictional works that incorporate and expand upon mummy lore. Indeed, the popular concept of the mummy as a malevolent monster dates back to the nineteenth century, when stories about mummies rising from the dead to terrify the living first captured the public's imagination and set the revivified corpse on the path to becoming a major horror icon.
The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature provides the first in-depth survey and bibliography of works featuring mummies. In this comprehensive volume, Brian J. Frost traces the development of the mummy story, paying particular attention to works by Victorian authors and pulp-fiction writers, as well as stories from American pulp magazines. The annotated bibliography provides synopses of key fictional works in the mummy canon, as well as less well known works. Publication details for each entry, with plot summaries of more than 500 works of fiction and abridged descriptions of 250 nonfiction books, are provided. Additionally, a filmography is included, along with lists of young adult novels, children's storybooks, and reference works for both adults and children. Well organized and comprehensive, The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature will appeal to devotees of the horror genre and students of popular literature, as well as researchers and librarians.
BRIAN J. FROST is one of the world's leading authorities on weird fiction. He is the author of The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature (1989) and The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature (2003). Necessity is the mother of invention, etc., and it was my lack of a copy of this book, or any likelihood of gaining access to a copy, spawned this harum scarum, unwieldy thread. So, imagine my obscene and terrifying joy when a copy showed up dirt cheap on *m*z*n uk Monday last week. Arrived yesterday! #bookstacy
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