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Post by David A. Riley on May 8, 2023 9:06:26 GMT
I used to love Brian J. Frost's highly detailed and informative articles in the fanzine Shadow, edited by David A. Sutton back in the early 1970s.
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Post by dem bones on May 8, 2023 11:44:24 GMT
I used to love Brian J. Frost's highly detailed and informative articles in the fanzine Shadow, edited by David A. Sutton back in the early 1970s. I'm sure his Vampire biblio, The Monster with a Thousand Faces and the self-explanatory The Essential Guide To Werewolf Literature began life in Shadow? Of the three, I'd rate ...the Mummy as the finest, most detailed of Mr. Frost's three major bibliographical works to date. The beauty is, he lists and annotates several titles we either overlooked, didn't get around to or, more often than not, had never even heard of, this last being particularly true of novels and young adult fiction. So, a lot of catching up to do ....
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Post by dem bones on May 9, 2023 19:57:13 GMT
Catching up, part 1. This could go on for some time. H.R. Hammond H. Bedford Jones - The Sleeper: ( Weird Tales, Oct. 1934). The story of Ranjit Singh, who was dead and buried — so they said!. The mysterious death of Ranjit Singh, a massively successful East Indian stage magician whose gimmick was to endure premature burial for up to five weeks at a time. Alas, our professional cataleptic's weakness for women, married or otherwise, led to a permanent split with his notoriously vindictive manager ... Heitman H. P. Lovecraft - Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family: ( The Wolverline, March, June 1921: Weird Tales, 1924 as The White Ape) H. P. Lovecraft is at his best in this Strange Tale. A delivery arrives at the home of Sir Arthur Jermyn, last and most physically unsightly of a line of British nobles, most of whom died insane. As promised, the crate, liberated from the ruins of a stone jungle city, contains the stuffed and mummified remains of a Congolese Princess. Proof, at last that his ancestor, Sir Wade, a noted explorer, was neither credulous fool nor liar when he wrote of his exploits in this city of the white apes from whence he returned with "Portuguese" bride. But what is it about the locket around the mummy's neck causes Jermyn to flee from the house and set himself ablaze on the moor? Edward D. Hoch - The Weekend Magus: (Bill Pronzini [ed.], Mummy! A Chrestomathy of Crypt-ology, 1980). "Here is entombed the remains of the Egyptian Satni along with his favourite Gania who perished here together in the reign of Antoninus Pius." Our journalist narrator arranges to interview Sir Richard Forbish, the noted Egyptologist and potential Nobel Prize winner, at his home on the banks of Loch Awe, near Glasgow. Forbish is delighted to entertain him, having recently discovered an ancient pyramid in the grounds of his estate (!). The 'favourite' the inscription refers to is an enormous sea serpent, bandage-wrapped but remarkably intact. Wall drawings suggest Satni died riding his pet across the Loch. Forbish, who insists Gania is not dead but hibernating, fits electrodes to the Nessie-a-like, proposing to jump-charge it back to life ...
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Post by helrunar on May 9, 2023 20:26:14 GMT
That Hoch tale sounds exceptionally wild and woolly--intended as a bit of fun perhaps? Great scans and notes!
Hel.
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Post by dem bones on May 10, 2023 18:35:58 GMT
I'd read The Weekend Magus in the Pronzini anthology, but it left little impression - quite some achievement for a mummy story set in Glasgow and featuring a close relative of the Loch Ness Monster. It's BJF's book put me on to the Bedford-Jones — a classy horror short due revival — and today's pair. Edward D. Hoch - The Mummy From the Sea: ( Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Jan. 1979). Could the mummy really have come from an Egyptian tomb? The body of missing tourist shop owner and art smuggler, Sergio Costa, is washed up, embalmed and wrapped in burial windings, on Copacabana Beach. A grisly New year sacrifice to Yemanja, the Sea goddess, or an elaborate ruse by Costa's killer to deflect blame onto the Spiritists? Simon Ark, 2,000 year-old Devil-buster, investigates. Magarian Duncan H. Farnsworth - Mystery of the Mummy: ( Amazing Stories, Sept 1941). Why should Richardson be so drawn to the mummy on the altar of the future? Was it someone he knew? Richardson's time machine transports him far into the future and a stone temple wherein lies a horribly charred and mummified human corpse in a glass case. Whose body can it be? The mystery obsesses him so that he delays announcement of his greatest invention while he travels back and forth from the shrine. He'll learn the identity of the d___ned fellow on the altar or die trying!
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Post by dem bones on May 12, 2023 4:51:07 GMT
Max Brod - Death is a Temporary Disposition: (Weird Tales, April 1938). An odd little story, told in a psychiatric clinic. Adapted by Roy Temple House from the German. "We have noticed that the doctors here wear exactly the same sort of dress as the patients. It seems to me a that is very wise arrangement. It is certainly reassuring and soothing for a poor fellow whose mental condition is not quite what it should be, to be identified in appearance with the wise, strong men who are helping him regain his balance — "
With Professor Hoeberlein unavoidably detained elsewhere on the premises, a colleague dutifully steps in to address a party of Danish visitors. To keep them amused, Prof. Jastrau recalls a meeting with the murdered Dr. Debaudy at the Institute of Arles. Arles kept an unbound mummy in his room, realising, as did the Egyptians, that, provided a body is cared for correctly, there is no reason it should not eventually recover from the temporary pathological condition known to the layman as 'death.' Jastrau regrets his impatience with a fellow psychiatrist, whose misanthropy prevented his sharing this knowledge with the world.
As well for the visitors that Hoeberlein arrives in time to prevent the "Professor" from demonstrating what he did to Dr. Debaudy.
John Edgell - A Night With the Mummies: (John Edgell [ed.], Ghosts, 1967). "It would be a splendid place to throw a party, he thought. He liked to give parties in exotic places and had once held a wine-and-cheese affair in a graveyard, supplying not only the wine and the cheese, but also a three-piece band dressed as dead men. Now he could imagine the Mummy Room filled with people, with noisy music, and people dancing between the exhibits."
Daredevil Bennett accepts a challenge to spend a night among the embalmed dead in the Mummy Room of the British Museum, with predictably unhappy personal consequences.
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Post by dem bones on May 19, 2023 10:05:25 GMT
John Murray Reynolds - The Soul of Ra-Moses: ( Weird Tales, May 1940). A Goddess Plays a Strange Trick on a Collector. Landthrop Wells, amateur Egyptologist, purchases a small gilt figurine from a pawn shop. No sooner has he handed over the $2 than a second customer arrives, offers to buy it from him at five times the price. On learning Wells is a fellow antiquarian, the stranger, who gives his name as Sunson, insists he accompany him home to view a private collection of extraordinarily rare artefacts. The figurine, he explains, while of negligible value in itself, is of interest to him as a curio, for he believes it to contain the Ka of a High Priest of the cat-headed Goddess, Bast. Wells agrees to an exchange for his pick from six priceless papyri. Sunson commends his choice — "the only existing version of the amazingly frank autobiography of Hatasu the Sorceress Queen." They part friends, but by the time Wells reaches home, his treasure has undergone a disheartening transformation ... Meanwhile, over at the McCosh museum, an intruder steals into the Egyptian room to return an item to the mummy exhibit ... David Wyatt Terry Deary - The Mummy's Curse: ( True Horror Stories, Scholastic, 1993). Egypt, 1890. Disturbed by tomb-looters, the bandaged remains of Princess Amen-Ra embark on a cross-continent killing spree, culminating in a voyage aboard the Titanic. Terry Deary - The Hallowe'en Ghost: The Restless Mummy: ( True Ghost Stories, 1995). Manchester, 1990. The scowling ghost of Miss Hannah Beswick continues to haunt the barn of Birchin Bower.
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Post by dem bones on May 21, 2023 15:57:45 GMT
Benjamin Edwin Minns E & H Heron [Hesketh & Kate. Prichard] - The Story of Baelbrow: ( Pearson's Magazine, April 1898: Ghosts: Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low, 1899: Hugh Lamb [ed.], Victorian Nightmares, 1976 & Co.). Flaxman Low investigates eerie goings-on at the Swaffam's family mansion on the East Anglian coast. Baelbrow, built on the site of an ancient barrow, is famous for the family ghost which, up until recent weeks, had never been known to cause upset. Professor Van der Voort, a guest of Swaffam senior, alerts Low after his daughter, Lena, is leapt upon and bitten by a bandage fiend in the library, leaving her pale and listless thereafter. Several among the female servants complain of similar persecution before their young colleague, Eliza Freeman, dies of anaemia. Noting that the violence coincides with the addition of an Egyptian mummy to old man Swaffam's private museum, Low deduces that it has been reanimated by a vampire elemental from the ancient burial ground. Lena's hothead fiancé empties a revolver on its head before setting it ablaze on a canoe. Benjamin Edwin Minns
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Post by andydecker on May 21, 2023 19:34:43 GMT
I read that story as Low is one of the earliest occult detectives. I liked the ending.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 23, 2023 16:51:46 GMT
I read that story as Low is one of the earliest occult detectives. I liked the ending. "The Story of Baelbrow" is the best of the Flaxman Low stories. It was first anthologised in 1977 - twice - by Michel Parry and Hugh Lamb.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 1, 2023 20:17:17 GMT
Some covers from German pulp 'John Sinclair - Demon Hunter', published since 1973.
Blood of the Mummy The Mummys are coming
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Post by Swampirella on Jun 1, 2023 20:29:11 GMT
These are marvelous, thanks for posting them!
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Post by dem bones on Jun 3, 2023 16:18:04 GMT
Thanks for these, Andreas. The Das Blut Der Mumie painting is particularly gorgeous. Additions to the Essential Guide ...Charles Bump - The Vanishing Mummy: ( The Mermaid of Druid Lake & Other Stories, 1906: Jared Shurin & John J. Johnston [eds.] Unearthed, 2013). Soft-boiled detective Melver investigates the disappearance of a mummified Princess from a Balti Girl's College. Seabury Quinn - The Black Widow: ( Real Detective Tales, Jan. 1928: Demons of the Night, 2009). Can Professor Forrester and his ward, Rosalie, solve the mystery surrounding the inexplicable, agonising death of a fellow archaeologist while unwrapping a mummy he'd smuggled out of Egypt? David A. Sutton - A Night at the Hippo: (Marc Shemmans [ed.], Second City Scares: A Horror Express Anthology, 2013: The Evil Bones, 2023). A bloodthirsty ventriloquist's doll is loath to concede top billing to King Tut, the mind-reading mummy. David A. Sutton - House of the Cats: ( En Vacances, 2020). A succession of Brit holidaymakers fail to return from visiting Sant'Agnello's Museum of Mummified Cats. The hotel Piramide staff are indifferent. Rather them than us.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 10, 2023 10:05:38 GMT
Eerie #48 The Mummy Walks by Steve Skeates and Jaime Brocal:
This serial has a bit of a complicated history, later it was merged with the serial Curse of the Werewolf. Both started well, but went off the rails quickly. Brocal's art remained the best thing of this.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 18, 2023 13:10:00 GMT
A few others: 'Tyrant of Pyramid City' 1981 'Court of the Dead' 1977
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