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Post by kalamona on Aug 24, 2014 8:32:38 GMT
Years ago I bought an e-book which contained mummy stories. I don't know if this counts as a proper bibliography item, but anyway, here is the ToC:
The Mummies Return, ed. Jean Marie Stine, Renaissance E Books, 2001
Sax Rohmer: In the Valley of the Sorceress, (ss) The Premier Magazine Jan 1916 Arthur Conan Doyle: Lot No. 249, (nv) Harper's Sep 1892 Théophile Gautier: The Mummy's Foot, (ss) One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances, Wothington, 1882 ["Le Pied de Momie"; 1863] Victor Rousseau: The Curse of Amen-Ra, (na) Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror Oct 1932 Arlton Eadie: The Nameless Mummy, (nv) Weird Tales May 1932 C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne: The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt, (ss) Cassell's Aug 1898 E. F. Benson: Monkeys, (ss) Weird Tales Dec 1933
Kalamona
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Post by dem bones on Aug 24, 2014 17:35:21 GMT
Years ago I bought an e-book which contained mummy stories. I don't know if this counts as a proper bibliography item, but anyway, here is the ToC: It counts, Kalamona, and thank you! I like it when this board has an attempted bibliography on the go. Brian J Frost's achievement in finding let alone annotating five hundred stories is even more impressive when you take into consideration the overlap between the mummy-specific anthologies.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 25, 2014 10:39:15 GMT
Recently snagged a short academic paper, The Rape of the Mummy: Women, Horror Fiction and the Westernisation of The Curse by Dr Jasmine Day. According to the author, Louisa May Alcott's Lost in a Pyramid: or, the Mummy’s Curse was " the earliest known work of fiction with a mummy’s curse theme" until she and her colleagues rediscovered The Mummy’s Soul by the prolific and long-lived Anonymous ( The Knickerbocker; or New York Monthly Magazine, 1862), and Jane G. Austin's After Three Thousand Years ( Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art, 1868), both of which, from Dr. Day's synopses, sound like winners especially to those who like the idea of a mummified fly. Cover painting: Arnold Kohn ( The Word Of Ra) At time of writing, the following selections from Fantastic Universe are available to read on-line at (where would we be without them) Unz.org. Not sure if they are all bona fide mummy stories, so, where possible, have quoted relevant passages from Raymond A. Palmer chatty editorials. Not being a great one for reading lengthy stories from a screen, it could be some time before I get around to all of them, but will eventually give Karl Tanzler von Cosel's extraordinary true confession, The Secret of Elena's Tomb an entry to itself, most likely on tasteful joys of necrophilia thread. Henry Norton - Sammy Calls a Noobus ( Fantastic Adventures, Jan. 1943). "INTRODUCTIONS are in order: Henry Norton is the newcomer, and he does a short story about a little fellow named Sammy. Sammy managed to call up something he termed "a noobus," ad when he had it, he certainly didn't want it! So he had to get rid of it. Now sammy was a brave little lad, but the wolf-god Anubis is one of the toughest cookies who ever stalked the deserts of Egypt, and that includes a guy named Rommel." - Raymond A. Palmer, Editor's Notebook Berkeley Livingston - The Life Symbol ( Fantastic Adventures, Feb. 1946) "The Ancient Egyptians had a symbol for life - and sometimes it can be applied to the living dead ..." "Berkeley Livingston got a glimpse of a Virgil Finlay illustration and promptly went ga-ga with fluttering of the heart - and insisted on doing a story for it. "The Life Symbol" is the result, and if the illustration and title give you any idea of what its about, forget it because you are wrong. When Berk does a story, it just doesn't follow the usual pattern. you'll lime this one, we predict." - Raymond A. Palmer, Editor's Notebook William Lawrence Hamling - Shadow of the Sphinx ( Fantastic Adventures, Nov. 1946) "We're leading off this issue with a short novel by William Lawrence Hamling, entitled; 'Shadow of the Sphinx.' The story starts off in the Field Museum in Chicago, and ends up on the sands of Egypt. you'll cover a lot of ground in this yarn, and you'll meet a very interesting woman named Zaleikka. The most interesting thing about her is her age. Most people can't guess a woman's age, and in Zaleikka's case, a safe guess would be in the thousands - of years. J. Allen St. John painted the cover around the story, and also did the interiors. We think he caught the mood of the story pretty well. See if you don't agree with us." - Raymond A. Palmer, Editor's Notebook Elroy Arno - Meet My Mummy ( Fantastic Adventures, May 1947) "Elroy Arno comes up with a yarn called 'Meet My Mummy.' You've heard of mummies - the things they dig up in Egypt. Well, according to Mr. Arno, you don't have to go all the way to Egypt if you're looking for a mummy. Just look for a moonlit pool ... - Raymond A. Palmer, Editor's Notebook Karl Tanzler von Cosel - The Secret of Elena's Tomb ( Fantastic Adventures, Sept. 1947) Geoff St. Reynard - The Sword of Ra ( Fantastic Adventures, Feb. 1951) Illustrations. J Allen St John ( Shadow Of The Sphinx), Virgil Finlay ( The Life Symbol),
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Post by dem bones on Sept 3, 2014 6:27:57 GMT
Nurse Stella, reincarnated as Cleopatra, swiftly falls foul of the mummy's curse in The Royal episode, Dr. Who?, 2007. ShortsIvan Tourgueneff (Turganev) - The Living Mummy ( The Century Magazine, August 1876) Clark Ashton Smith - Empire Of The Necromancers ( Weird Tales, Sept. 1932) Sax Rohmer - The Mummy That Walked ( Collier's Weekly, January 15, 1938) William Holloway - The Wrath of Amen-Ra ( Fantastic Novels, January 1949) Clyde Mitchell (Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg)- The Mummy Takes a Wife ( Fantastic, Dec. 1956). "Luscious Linda was the kind of gal to make a mummy kick a hole in his sarcophagus. And there was the Belt of Osiris. It made old men young and young men — well anyhow. Linda spent all her time running until the mummy — oops! Don't want to give it away!" David A. Sutton - A Little Bit Of Egypt (Hugh Lamb (ed.) - Cold Fear: New Tales Of Terror (W. H. Allen, 1981) AnthologyGregory Norris (ed.) Canopic Jars: Tales of Mummies and Mummification (Great Old Ones Publishing/ Create Space, 2014) Thirty stories, 29 of them by names possibly as unfamiliar to you as they are me, plus H. P. Lovecraft's Under The PyramidsThree novelisations & a literary mash upJacquie Bloese - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Inca Mummy Girl (Scholastic, 1995) Mel Odom - Sabrina, the Teenage Witch #31: Mummy Dearest (Pocket Books, 2000) Michael Paine - The Mummy: Dark Resurrection (Dark Horse, 2007) Jane Austen & Vera Nazarian - Mansfield Park and Mummies (Curiosities, 2009) Edward Valigursky Fantastic cover scan found at Galactic CentralSphinx cover scan found at Le Boudoir Litteraire
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 3, 2014 20:57:35 GMT
Here's one from the 1 April 1935 issue of The Australian Journal - very long running Aus fiction mag:
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 4, 2014 10:36:00 GMT
Here's one from the 1 April 1935 issue of The Australian Journal - very long running Aus fiction mag: Brilliant stuff James
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Post by dem bones on Sept 4, 2014 21:39:57 GMT
Thanks James. Dr. Paul Modred's involvement in the astounding affair of the mummy's hand can only enhance his reputation as "the second Sherlock Holmes." To think I was dubious that there would be enough material for a mummy thread. It would be a life's work tracking down and reading everything on this list. 'J. M. R.' - The Mummy Pit, ( Magazine of Short Stories, Feb. 23 1889). Clive Pemberton - The Bulb ( The Weird 'o It, Henry J. Drane, 1906). Allegedly an outrageous plagiarism of Louisa May Alcott's wonderful Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse (and it certainly seems that way from a synopsis I read). J. L. Schoolcraft - Death's Secret ( All-Story Weekly, Dec. 1 1917: Fantastic Novels Magazine, July 1950) Anon (William J. Bayfield) - Sexton Blake: The Affair of the Seven Mummy Cases (Sexton Blake Library 1st series #270, Amalgamated Press, Jan. 1923) 'John Drummond' (John Lymington) - Sexton Blake: The Riddle of the Mummy Case (Sexton Blake Library 3rd series, # 100, Amalgamated Press, July 1945). John Metcalfe - Mr. Meldrum's Mania ( Judas and Other Stories, Constable, 1931). It's true that Mr. Meldrum's transformation is already under way before his visit to the British Museum, but the process speeds up considerably after his perusal of the mummy caskets. H. Carson Marksman - The Mummy's Hand ( The Australian Journal, April 1st 1935) H. P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald - Out Of The Eons ( Weird Tales, April 1935) E. Hoffmann Price - Mummies to Order ( Thrilling Mystery, January 1940). “Effendi, two gentlemen wish to speak to you. It is urgent.” Deane irritably smote the mummy dust from his hand. “Who are they?” “That red-faced Crawford, Effendi, and the fish-eyed grave robber.” Murray Deane, scrupulously honest archaeologist, is given the straight choice between embalming an Egyptian girl who outed a tomb-looter, and spending the rest of his days sealed inside a vault. But are his tormentors really the ancient dead revived, or has the man who stands to gain raided a fancy dress hire shop? Jack B. Creamer - The Terror Mummy ( Strange Stories #9. June 1940) Walter W. Leight - The Archaeologist And The Princess (Exposition Press, 1957) Michael Slade - Death's Door (Onyx, 2002) Paul H. Jeffers - Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy’s Curse (Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower [eds.], Ghosts in Baker Street, Carroll & Graf, 2006 ) William Christopher - Unwilling Bride of the Mummy (Walt Hicks [ed] DeathGrip: Exit Laughing, HellBound Books 2006)
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Post by pulphack on Sept 5, 2014 4:56:50 GMT
This is what I love about the Vault... John Lymington wrote a Sexton Blake (well, at least one it seems) before his sci-fi career? Splendid - I must try and find this. I wonder if the Mummy becomes a victim of the HEAT? Because it's always so HOT in Lymington stories...
I bet it's not set in Egypt, as although that's HOT, it's always HOT, and the point of a Lymington story is that sudden HEAT in a temperate climate is a portent of danger... There's a joke about mummies, Egypt and tents in there, but make it up yourselves.
Edit: a couple of hours later and I see that he wrote at least two more Blakes as Drummond - The Case Of The Two-Faced Swindler and The Teddy Boy Mystery, both 1955 according to Fantastic Fiction. With ten years between the Mummy story and these, chances are there are more. Not having the SBL archive anymore, I can't just go to the cupboard and check. Ah well, back to the internet, then...
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Post by dem bones on Sept 5, 2014 8:54:18 GMT
Any light you can shed on SB versus mummies would be much appreciated, mr. bugg! There's also something called The Sarcophagus Murder Case by 'Roland Howard' in a 1935 issue of Detective Weekly. We've a little more about the Lymington-attributed Blakes on this thread: John Lymington - The Night Spiders. Info is via w*k*pedia so approach with caution, though author certainly seems to know their stuff.
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Post by pulphack on Sept 5, 2014 14:14:10 GMT
Seriously, you're asking me to shed light? You were too tactful to mention it but I'd actually forgotten what I'd written myself six years ago... I mean not just slipped the mind, but erased like I was Arnie on Mars or something...
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Post by dem bones on Sept 6, 2014 6:44:47 GMT
Many thanks to my friend Mr. Fanatic for sending me a copy of the following Mummy Special! Bob Morrish, Peter Enfantino, Joe Scoleri [eds.] - Scream Factory #14 (Deadline Press, 1994) Jason Van Hollander Features Bill Crider — Half-Breeds: Western/horror hybrids Lawrence McCallum — A Film History of Kharis & His Kind: an overview of mummy films William D. Gagliani — Mummy Motifs: Seven contemporary mummy novels Ken Houghton - Eau de Nile; Oh Denial!: the lowdown on mummy short fiction Peter Enfantino - The Mummy Unwrapped: a shamble through mummy-oriented comics Dennis Etchison - TSF BiblioFile: a discussion /interview with George Clayton Johnson Dennis Etchison A Little-Known Side of Elvis (short story). Stan Wiater - TSF Artist Profile: Alan Clark interview and art checklist peteso - Alan Marshal Clark: Mild-Mannered Artist or Merciless Cop Killer? Sam Moskowitz - I Remember Derleth Thomas Deja - An Introduction to Young Adult Horror Fiction Randall Larson - The Sound Of Horror; horror film soundtracks (part 2 of 4) Shawn Danowski - Things That Go Bump On The Air; old-time radio horror (part 2 of 6)
Columns Letters To The Factory Marshall Probe - TSF Rumors 'n' Ruminations Tom Deja's Domicile Of Dread Mike Ashley - Shepherds Of Shadow: Hugh Lamb Lawrence McCallum - The Late Show Don D'Amassa - OverLook Library Stefan Dziemianowicz - The Horror Pulpit Derek Hill - Once Is Not Enough: the Dr. Orient series Bob Morrish - Small Press Box John Scoleri - Bookshelves Of Blood Refearence Shelf: Cosette Keis' Supernatural Fiction For Teens and Presenting Young Adult Horror Fiction, and Greg Cox's The Transylvanian Library,
Reviews: Jeff Gelb (ed.) Hotter Blood, Hellcat, A Hannes Bok Treasury, Stephen Fabian: Ladies & Legends, Jim Warren Beyond Bizarre (collector card set), Horripilations: The Art of J. K. Potter, Carl Lundgren: Great Artist, Chris Curry & Lisa Dean Trickster, Edward Lee Succubi, John Gaul Teddy, Robert Bloch The Early Fears, Robert Bloch (ed.) Monsters In Our MidstHow in the name of all that's sacred did I miss Scream Factory when it was an ongoing concern? This is my first experience of "the magazine of Horrors Past, Present and Future" and, if #14 is par for the course, it is unutterably brilliant. Where many of the day's horror-interest publications immersed themselves in the world of contemporary FX-laden splatter movies, on this evidence at least, the Scream team's bias was toward macabre and supernatural literature which is a definite plus. From a personal perspective, the pick of the men-in-rotting-bandages content is Ken Houghton's horribly titled Eau de Nile; Oh Denial!, which devotes seven pages to "de-constructing, or at least, unravelling mummy short fiction," by comparing and contrasting the content of three anthologies, Vic Ghidalea's The Mummy Walks Among Us, Bill Pronzini's Mummy! and Martin H. Greenberg's Mummy Stories. He writes: "Our noble editor, Mr. Morrish, being endowed with the Database from Hell, found very little fiction outside of these three anthologies and one other, and even less of it written after the heydey of the 'classic' mummy films" (the "one other" referred to is Peter Haining's The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse). Was very glad to see several lesser known titles - Edward Hoch's charming and very cheeky The Weekend Magus, Joe R. Lansdale's terror from the Danish bogland The Princess, and D R. Meredith's blackly comic Mummy No. 50, etc. - receiving due praise. The piece concludes with a checklist of non-anthologised mummy shorts (I'm not sure whether to feel relieved or disappointed that we overlooked only two of the twenty: Robert E. Howard's Skull Face and E. Hoffman Price's The Woman In The Case). Also of note, William D. Gagliani's Mummy Motifs in which he takes the tweezers to seven contemporary-ish novels and concludes that, while each has something to recommend it, Michael Paine's Cities Of The Dead is must-have, Charles L. Grant's Long Nights Of The Grave recommended, and 'Carl Dreadstones's The Mummy far superior in every department to Anne Rice's extravaganza of the same name. Have not yet read the issue cover to cover - Scream Factory is A LOT of magazine - but non-mummy related highlights include Mike Ashley's celebration of Hugh Lamb's horror & supernatural anthologies, and Bill Crider on Western-Horror cross-overs; perhaps we could get some mileage from that one? Thanks to Scream Factory, we can toss the following into the mix. short fictionRobert E. Howard - Skull Face ( Weird Tales, Oct-Dec. 1929) E. Hoffman Price - Woman In The Case ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1938) NovelsJeffrey Sackett - Stolen Souls (Bantam, 1987) Michael Paine - Cities Of The Dead (Charter, 1988: Futura, 1990) Tanya Huff - Blood Lines (Daw, 1993) Randall Boyll - Mongster (Berkley, 1991) ******* Enclosed: #2 in our "exciting" 'Seven Plagues of Rubatitti' series!
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Post by andydecker on Sept 6, 2014 11:12:25 GMT
Here are a few german pulp covers from the 70s. The Mummy was often used as a foil for the heroes.
Blood of the Pharao Two Mummies in the Cellar Portaguerra Curse of the Caliph
The Secret of the Mummy
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Post by dem bones on Sept 6, 2014 12:07:18 GMT
A mummy with three boobs? Mr. Decker, not for the first time you have excelled yourself. Thank you so much for sharing these!
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Post by dem bones on Sept 10, 2014 1:04:58 GMT
Very fetching cover of Wordsworth's reissued Return From The GraveFour novelsA Gothic romance .... Victoria Holt - Curse Of The Kings (Fawcett Crest, 1974: Fontana, 1975); Blurb: "When two eminent archaeologists mysteriously die after opening a Pharaohs tomb, Judith Osmond is certain the curse killed them. Even though she believes the curse has nothing to do with her, things change dramatically in her life. Quite suddenly she receives an unexpected inheritance and a marriage proposal from a young archaeologist named Tybalt. He plans to spend their honeymoon exploring the tombs and the curse comes back to haunt Judith."A romance romance .... Bess Willingham - The Lady's Mummy (Zebra Regency, 1997). Blurb: "Egyptologist Cassandra Russell is outraged when the rogue whose family was responsible for a long-ago tragedy shows up at her home. But Alistair Gordon needs her--his brother's prized Pharaohs mummy has been stolen, and Cassandra alone can help him recover it. The perils of unmasking a thief place them in danger as they set out on an adventure that could unearth true love."A Haitian voodoo - mummy crossover .... David Case - The Third Grave (Arkham House, 1981). Crime and punishment .... Pauline Gedge - The Scroll Of Saqquira (Viking 1990: Penguin, 1991) Prince Khaemwaset raids tomb in desert, retrieves scroll sewn to the hand of a corpse and unwittingly unleashes vengeful Egyptian God on world. And if there's one thing Thoth hates above everything else, it's a graverobber. .... And a novella. Norman Partridge - The Mummy's Heart. A mummy-on-the-rampage title if ever was. A Karloff-inspired misfit with his own plywood temple attempts necromantic rite to raise his centuries-lost princess from Butcher's Lake. Paula Guran (ed.) - Halloween: Magic, Mystery and the Macabre (Prime, Sept. 2013)
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Post by mcannon on Sept 11, 2014 10:03:12 GMT
There were of course umpteen mummy-themed stories in comic books over the decades. Marvel even had an ongoing "Living Mummy" series for a while in one of its titles as part of its wave of mid-70s monster books. However, one notable comic book mummy didn't really look the part - one of the multitude of pre-Code horror hosts went by the name of "The Mummy":- "Beware! Terror Tales" was published by Fawcett, generally considered one of the more respectable of the Golden Age comics publishers - they were responsible for the wholesome, mega-popular Captain Marvel. By the early 1950s, though, even Fawcett had come to appreciate the market value of a melting corpse. Mark
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