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Post by dem bones on Jul 3, 2023 13:25:50 GMT
Violet Van Der Elst - The Mummy Comes to Life: (Van Der Elst Press, 1946). Grateful thanks to Helrunar for forwarding the above, and of course, to the original scanner.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 5, 2023 8:42:23 GMT
Two more. 'Killerdemon' (1975) 'Curse of the Pharao' (1976) Cover by JAD
Professor Zamorra is a twice a month Heftroman serial which is still running. Currently there is issue 1281 on sale. One of the few survivors of the Golden Age. 'Gespenster-Krimi' was canceled in 1985, but revived in 2018 for nostalgic audiences. At first it was reprints only, but since then they publish original novels. Covers are recycled from the past, but sometimes censored nowadays.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 16, 2023 9:49:39 GMT
Sketch, 18 Sept. 1918. J. S. Fletcher - The Flat on the Fourth Floor: ( The Sketch, 16 June 1909). Mr. Dysart suffers death by a thousand cats for thieving a relic from the British Museum. Actually, he falls off an Alp, but it's still a direct consequence of the mummy's curse. Holloway Horn - The Serious Young Man: ( The Bystander, 5 January 1927). An Antique dealer's assistant learns why one should never steal a ring from the mummified hand of an Egyptian Princess. Nina Toye - The Mummified Emperor: ( The Bystander, 16 February 1916). He's literally a puppet ruler. Dudley Hardy; The Flat on the Fourth Floor
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Post by helrunar on Oct 20, 2023 3:16:35 GMT
It was announced today that Conan Doyle's story "Lot No. 249" is going to be filmed (or perhaps has already been filmed) for the BBC annual "Ghost story for Xmas" strand.
I'd post a link but I just looked at a couple of sites and all were saddled with endless, unsightly pop-up adverts and nonsense. Kit Harington is due to head an eminent ensemble cast, and Mr Mark Gatiss has written the script. I'm imagining the drama opening with a shot of Mr Harington, nude, with an Egyptological tome artfully propped open at a key angle, lounging provocatively on a divan and addressing his scout over his shoulder, 'Make Mummy a cappuccino, Smithers.'
Hel.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 20, 2023 7:56:50 GMT
I'm imagining the drama opening with a shot of Mr Harington, nude, with an Egyptological tome artfully propped open at a key angle, lounging provocatively on a divan and addressing his scout over his shoulder, 'Make Mummy a cappuccino, Smithers.' Hel. Is there no Mrs Harington in the story? :-)
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Oct 20, 2023 9:55:45 GMT
It was announced today that Conan Doyle's story "Lot No. 249" is going to be filmed (or perhaps has already been filmed) for the BBC annual "Ghost story for Xmas" strand. I'd post a link but I just looked at a couple of sites and all were saddled with endless, unsightly pop-up adverts and nonsense. Kit Harington is due to head an eminent ensemble cast, and Mr Mark Gatiss has written the script. I'm imagining the drama opening with a shot of Mr Harington, nude, with an Egyptological tome artfully propped open at a key angle, lounging provocatively on a divan and addressing his scout over his shoulder, 'Make Mummy a cappuccino, Smithers.' Hel. I like the idea of A Ghost Story for Christmas, but I don't think the new ones are anywhere near the originals. It's a pity as Gatiss is obviously an admirer of them; but then again he is a fan of the original Who and the new series is run around fantasy, that often make no sense. It's not remotly sc-fi, it's fantasy as the universe it inhabits has no governing rules. i just don't see why they didn't reboot it as they have completely retconned it all anyway and removed any mystery the Doctor might have had.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 20, 2023 14:07:41 GMT
No women actors (formerly known as actresses, but one must move with the times) have been listed amongst the cast, but perhaps there will be at least a couple.
I watched the initial 2004 series of the Who return, scripted by Russell T. Davies. It was good overall, I thought, and I liked the actor, but did not feel compelled to continue. Episodes I've occasionally seen since then generally do not make any sense at all, I agree. I think Mark Gatiss wrote one or two scripts (including one involving the Ice Warriors on Mars) in recent years but hasn't ever been the showrunner--he and Moffatt ran the Sherlock series together, as well as a really awful version of Dracula a couple of years back.
Hel.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 20, 2023 20:51:05 GMT
Mark Gatiss has introduced previously non-existent women's roles into his previous ghost story adaptations, so I wouldn't be surprised if a few turn up in Lot 249.
(I rather enjoyed the Gatiss & Moffatt Dracula, I must admit. Not a faithful take, obviously, but I thought it did some interesting things, even if not always successfully. The middle episode was the highlight, with the journey of the Demeter almost like The Thing but on a ship.)
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Post by andydecker on Oct 21, 2023 11:28:15 GMT
No women actors (formerly known as actresses, but one must move with the times) have been listed amongst the cast, but perhaps there will be at least a couple. I watched the initial 2004 series of the Who return, scripted by Russell T. Davies. It was good overall, I thought, and I liked the actor, but did not feel compelled to continue. Episodes I've occasionally seen since then generally do not make any sense at all, I agree. I think Mark Gatiss wrote one or two scripts (including one involving the Ice Warriors on Mars) in recent years but hasn't ever been the showrunner--he and Moffatt ran the Sherlock series together, as well as a really awful version of Dracula a couple of years back. Hel. I see my remark about woman in the story after your vision of the first scene obviously was too subtle :-)
Gatiss wrote the Charles Dickens episode of Dr Who The Unquiet Dead, which is okay. The rest of his contributions range from decent to boring IMHO. Two of his scripts for Poirot were better. (The third a train wreck, though.) And his Dr Who novels from the 90s are a decent read.
No, Dr Who seldom makes sense anymore. :-)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2023 16:06:19 GMT
With the inflationary price of gauze wrappings, I highly doubt that the mummy could have gone about his business these days.
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Post by andydecker on Dec 2, 2023 13:04:51 GMT
Dell Comics, 1962 According to some sources this was basically a new story and not an adaption a movie.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2023 11:02:46 GMT
Artist unattributed, News Chronicle, 23 December 1936 Shane Leslie - As In a Glass Dimly: (Cynthia Asquith [ed.], When Churchyards Yawn, 1931. Frank Usher - Ghosts of Ancient Egypt: (John Canning [ed.], 50 Great Ghost Stories, 1966). ā Westerham Herald, 13 November 1909
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Post by dem bones on Dec 5, 2023 7:04:13 GMT
Stephen E. Fabian I Found Cleopatra ( More Fantasy by Fabian: The Art of Stephen E. Fabian, 1979) ā South London Observer, 5 August 1922 The Tutankhamen Over-Blouse (original source unknown, reproduced in Christopher Frayling (ed.) - The Face of Tutankhamun, 1992.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 5, 2023 14:04:52 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 5, 2023 14:07:23 GMT
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