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Post by dem bones on Oct 28, 2015 6:45:17 GMT
I thought THE AWAKENING was based on Bram Stoker's THE JEWEL OF SEVEN STARS. In fact, I am sure it is. And you are right, but R.C.H. didn't know that until afterwards, when Arrow published a tie-in edition. Will post the exact quote when I can fight my way through to magazine rack. This turkey got a novelisation?
Compared to this "Blood from the Mummys tomb" should have won an Oscar. RCH was right. Finally burrowed through a solid wall of Dennis Wheatley product to reach mag rack, and here's the relevant passage from Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher's Talk Of The Devil, Skeleton Crew, Sept. 1990. ' ... Unaware that it was based on Bram Stoker's short novel ("the only thing I'd read by him was Dracula") and, like the film-makers, ignorant of the 1971 Hammer version filmed as Blood From The Mummy's Tomb, the author was given just two weeks to write the book.
"It was marvellous. I got £2, 000 for that. I read the script and pinched a bit from H. Rider Haggard, some from the Arabian Nights, and got a story out of it somehow. I found it was ridiculously easy. I also saw the film all by myself and thought it was stupid - why didn't they find an original idea? Anyway, it flopped, so I think I was right. I only found out afterwards it was based on Stoker's book because Arrow's original edition was selling better than my version. However, my book sold 15, 000 copies, so Magnum was pleased."
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Post by bluetomb on Oct 28, 2015 10:37:40 GMT
I distinctly remember thinking The Awakening was a solid watch when I was younger, probably 11 to 14 years old. Remember very little about it nowadays other than a crushing/impaling booby trap in the tomb, someone getting taken out with a falling pan or possibly shard of glass because they've fallen over halfway in and out of a window frame and can't get up, and the possessed strolling out of the house at the end. Which hasn't been quite enough to convince me to give it another shot.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Oct 28, 2015 13:36:15 GMT
Saw The Awakening once years ago, when I was ill and hated it. And I'm someone who tries to see the good in things. Blood From The Mummy's Tomb looks a bit cheap these days but is terrific in parts, with a great cast and a couple of nifty in-jokes. I read The Jewel Of The Seven Stars whilst on a TJOTSS film blitz and found it terribly turgid and slow, apart from the bits in Egypt. And I've got the 'happy ending' version. If you do like the Stoker it might be worth seeking out the ITV Mystery & Imagination TV take 'Curse Of The Mummy' which I think sticks a bit closer to Bram's version. In colour, with Patrick Mower and the wonderfully irascible Graham Crowden. The Mrs picked me up a copy of 'Bram Stoker's Legend Of The Mummy 2'in one of her 'you like horror films' moods. It was truly abysmal. I picked up a 15 certificate version of the original 'Bram Stoker's Legend Of The Mummy' and, having some chairs missing in my lounge, still failed to spot the clue of Bram Stoker on the cover as the plot seemed rather familiar. Checking on that bastion of reliability IMDB I found that it was indeed an adaptation of JOTSS and some drooling adolescent males had either watched a different film, or my version was missing a vital scene. I've subsequently obtained an 18 certificate version of Bram Stoker's Legend Of The Mummy which I fervently hope includes the missing 'maid in the bath' smut sequence. If it does and I eventually get around to watching it, there will be great rejoicing, even if that particular episode isn't faithful to Stoker's original.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 28, 2015 15:52:02 GMT
Will keep you informed of any bathtub action in R.C.H.'s take on the story, though am none too hopeful. Having said that The Psychic Detective is not without its downright pervy moments .... Meanwhile, fairly recent and the first of its kind. An anthology of original mummy fiction. Jared Shurin [ed.] – The Book Of The Dead (Jurassic London, 2013) Garen Ewing John J. Johnston – Introduction: “Some Words from an Egyptologist”
Louis Greenberg – Akhenaten Goes to Paris Den Patrick – All is Dust Maria Dahvana Headley – Bit-U-Men Maurice Broaddus – Cerulean Memories Jonathan Green – Egyptian death and the afterlife: mummies (Rooms 62-3) Jesse Bullington – Escape from the Mummy’s Tomb Glen Mehn – Henry Lou Morgan – Her Heartbeat, An Echo Michael West – Inner Goddess Molly Tanzer – Mysterium Tremendum David Thomas Moore – Old Souls Paul Cornell – Ramesses on the Frontier Jenni Hill – The Cats of Beni Hasan Gail Carriger – The Curious Case of the Werewolf that Wasn’t, The Mummy that Was and the Cat in the Jar David Bryher – The Dedication of Sweetheart Abbey Sarah Newton – The Roof of the World Roger Luckhurst – The Thing of Wrath Will Hill – Three Memories of Death Adam Roberts – TollundBlurb: The Book of the Dead addresses the most fascinating of all the undead: the mummy. The mummy can be a figure of imperial dignity or one of shambling terror, at home in pulp adventure, contemporary drama, or apocalyptic horror. The anthology is published in collaboration with the Egypt Exploration Society, the UK's oldest independent funder of archaeological fieldwork and research in Egypt, dedicated to the promotion and understanding of ancient Egyptian history and culture.
This anthology includes nineteen original stories of revenge, romance, monsters and mayhem, ranging freely across time periods, genres and styles. The stories are illustrated by Garen Ewing, creator of The Adventures of Julius Chancer and introduced by John J. Johnston, Vice Chair of the Egypt Exploration Society.[/center] Also, the companion volume featuring several old friends and two originals. Jared Shurin & John J. Johnston [eds.] – Unearthed (Jurassic London, 2013) Garen Ewing John J. Johnston – Going Forth by Night: Introduction.
Guy Boothby – A Professor of Egyptology Louisa May Alcott – Lost in a Pyramid Arthur Conan Doyle – Lot No. 249 Edgar Allan Poe – Some Words with a Mummy Herbert W. Crotzer – The Block of Bronze George Griffith – The Death-Bridal of Nitocris Théophile Gautier – The Mummy’s Foot Arthur Conan Doyle – The Ring of Thoth E. Heron and H. Heron – The Story of Baelbrow Julian Hawthorne – The Unseen Man’s Story Charles Bump – The Vanished MummyBlurb: Unearthed resurrects eleven classic tales of the mummy, selected by John J. Johnston (Egypt Exploration Society) and Jared Shurin. These stories date back to the middle of the 19th century, and several have not been republished for almost two hundred years. They have all been carefully edited and reformatted to accurately represent their original publication quality.
Unearthed comes complete with a lengthy introduction from John J. Johnston, outlining the mummy's presence in literature and pop culture, from the monster's first appearance in print to its latest on screen.
The companion volume to The Book of the Dead, Unearthed is published in partnership with Egypt Exploration Society, the UK's oldest independent funder of archaeological fieldwork and research in Egypt, dedicated to the promotion and understanding of ancient Egyptian history and culture.Available from JurassicAnd still they're not done ..... With grateful thanks to Mortia Perish Raven, John J Johnston, and Jared Shurin
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Post by dem bones on Oct 29, 2015 8:30:38 GMT
Robert Sharp - The Good Shabti (Jurrasic, 2015) Jeffrey Alan Love Blurb: A thrilling debut that spans thousands of years.
In the twilight days of Pharaoh Mentuhotep IV, a slave stumbles into the path of a vizier's imperial ambitions. And, in the near future, a brilliant scientist and her ruthless companions edge closer to completing an impossible experiment: the revivification of an ancient mummy.
The two stories weave together in a tale that combines science and myth, anticipation and horror...
The Good Shabti is an original publication, published with the assistance of the Egypt Exploration Society. Paula Guran has announced The Good Shabti among the contents of her forthcoming The Mammoth Book Of The Mummy (Robinson, Feb. 2016) , along with such gems as Norman Partridge's The Mummy's Heart. Simon Clark [ed.]'s Mammoth Book Of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (Robinson, 2015) includes Cavan Scott's The Adventure of the Mummy’s Curse
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Post by dem bones on Dec 5, 2015 11:28:14 GMT
Delightful uncredited illustration, as posted by deejayway on Collected Editions Discussion Forums; not sure if the story - Donald Graham's The Morgue that Madness Filled ( Horror Stories, April-May 1939), qualifies as legit mummy fiction, but in this instance, who's worried ?
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Post by dem bones on Mar 8, 2016 20:18:41 GMT
Latest reissue from the good folk at Valancourt. Riccardo Stephens - The Mummy (Valancourt, 2016: originally Eveleigh Nash, 1912) Blurb With a new introduction by Mark Valentine
Dr. Armiston, middle-aged bachelor and general practitioner, has his quiet and routine life interrupted when he is called in to consult on the deaths of two young men. One case seems to be a tragic accident, the other the result of natural causes, but they have one strange thing in common: the presence of the same ancient Egyptian mummy case in both men's homes. When Armiston learns that the sarcophagus is inscribed with a terrible curse promising vengeance on anyone who disturbs the mummy's repose, and as the series of deaths continues, the doctor will risk his own life to unravel the mystery and find out whether the mummy - or something or someone else - is responsible.
As Mark Valentine argues in his new introduction to this edition, Riccardo Stephens's exceedingly scarce The Mummy (1912) is a fine piece of storytelling, an inventive weird mystery that bears comparison with the works of Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson. This edition follows the text of the 1923 Hutchinson edition.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 23, 2016 9:21:29 GMT
Virgil Finlay Francis Stevens - Behind The Curtain: ( Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Jan. 1940). Meet Dr. Santallos, antiquarian. The doctor suspects that, while he spends his every waking moment worshipping his prize possession, the golden casket of Ta-Nezem, and its horribly shrivelled resident, his much younger wife, Beatrice, is canoodling with mutual friend, Ralph Quentin. Confound their treachery! Taking his cue from Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado, Santallos exacts diabolical revenge. First five pages are pulp horror gold, execrable ending is worst cop out imaginable.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2016 5:02:32 GMT
Hugh Rankin illustration for Arlton Eadie's The Nameless Mummy ( Weird Tales, May 1932) Arlton Eadie - Carnival Of Death (4 part serial, Weird Tales, Sept - Nov. 1935) A. Hyatt Verrill - The Mummy of Ret-Seh ( Fantastic Adventures, May 1939) Duncan Farnsworth - Mystery Of The Mummy ( Amazing Stories, September 1941) Edward D. Hoch - The Mummy from the Sea ( Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan. 1979)) Julian S. Krupa Exciting non-fiction! The so-called 'curse' continues to shape mummy fiction and fantasy to present day. Howard Carter - The Tomb Of Tutankhamen (Sphere, 1972) Blurb "It would be difficult to describe our emotions when for the first time the light of our powerful electric lamps flooded the Burial Chamber, illuminating the walls on which were painted representatives of Amentit, the catafalque drawn on a sled by the chief nobles of the land, King Ay before the Osiride Tutankhamen and lighting up the immense shrine overlaid with gold . . ."
The discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in I922 is a land mark in archaeological history and certainly the most important single find in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Unlike that of more illustrious Pharaohs the tomb of the the boy-king Tutankhamen had lain unmolested by graverobbers for more than three thousand years. To its discoverers it yielded a treasure of unimagined magnificence, ranging from chariots, chairs and caskets to the great sepulchral shrine of “the Lord of the West."
The story of this discovery, first published by instalments between I923 and 1933, is here told by Howard Carter who led the work of excavation. Not only does he provide a brilliant portrait of the life and death of an 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, but he also communicates the feeling of awe and excitement which spurred the explorers as the tomb yielded up its extraordinary riches.
The text is complemented by Harry Burton's contemporary photographs, and a selection of more recent colour photographs which show the treasures as they may be seen today.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 7, 2016 20:17:25 GMT
This is such a fabulous thread. I love the old mag illos and those fabulous, sometimes epically off-key 60s-70s paperback covers.
Now where did I put that Scroll of Thoth?
H.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2016 21:46:49 GMT
Jack Binder interior illustration for Arlton Eadie's The Carnival Of Death ( Weird Tales, Oct. 1935) This is such a fabulous thread. I love the old mag illos and those fabulous, sometimes epically off-key 60s-70s paperback covers. Now where did I put that Scroll of Thoth? H. Its one of my favourites too because so many have contributed to it, including a few who aren't registered with the board (the tw*tter experiment had its moments). There would be far fewer pulp illo's had not SFFAudio put so many issues of Weird Tales online. Joseph Doolin interior illustration for Thomas P. Kelley's I Found Cleopatra ( Weird Tales, Nov. 1938)
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Post by helrunar on Sept 8, 2016 15:39:36 GMT
Fabulous. I'll have to look at that site with the WT scans.
Before perusing this thread, I had not quite grokked the intimate connection between ancient Egyptian horror and women with large, prominent, pointy-nippled breasts.
The Hammer classic BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB is a long-standing guilty pleasure, though, so I really should have figured it all out long ago.
H.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 13, 2016 19:51:37 GMT
Before perusing this thread, I had not quite grokked the intimate connection between ancient Egyptian horror and women with large, prominent, pointy-nippled breasts. The Hammer classic BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB is a long-standing guilty pleasure, though, so I really should have figured it all out long ago. H. Hammer got it right. Big tits are as essential to mummy pulp as sand, hieroglyphics, mouldering bandages, and a casket. William Grotz, Black Mask, August 1922. Doesn't appear to illustrate any of the stories in the issue. Charles Henry Mackintosh - Death In Twenty Minutes: ( Weird Tales, Jan. 1935). A gooseflesh story about a death's-head spider and an Egyptian mummy. Dr. Graeme has conceived a fool-proof scheme to rid him of hated rival, Dr. Barrion, for good. Murder by killer arachnid, secreted in the folds of a mummy's shroud! "No one can connect me with the poor, dear doctor's mysterious death. It will be the curse of Amen-Ra upon a grave-robber!" Seabury Quinn - The Dust Of Egypt: ( Weird Tales, April 1930). Was Absalom Barnstable, museum curator and serial tomb-looter, the victim of the curse of Sepa, priest of Isis? Or was he smothered by his strange young niece, Louella, who, along with her brother now inherits 'Journey's End'? De Grandin spoils the fun when he provides a rational explanation for many of the seemingly supernatural aspects of the case, although he cremates an ancient mummy to be on the safe side. Four potential candidates from the weird menaces. I don't have copies of any of them. Wayne Rogers - The Mummy Pack Prowls Again. ( Dime Mystery Magazine, April 1937). When that dreadful malady, which had destroyed half the youth of the village, threatened my adored Velma, I thought nothing worse could happen... I didn’t know, then, that worse indeed was the ghastly plague’s own soul-destroying cure!Brent North - Blood For The Mummy. ( Dime Detective Magazine, March 1933) Russell Gray - The Maid And The Mummy. ( Dime Mystery Magazine, Aug. 1937) Alexander Blade - Case Of The Living Mummy. ( Mammoth Detective, Sept. 1942) Anonymous - I Was A Teenage Mad Mummy: ( Fantastic Monsters of The Films # 4, Winter, 1962). A disappointment in that it's not the horror story I took it to be, merely an appraisal of Teenage Zombies, Teenagers From Outer Space, Frankenstein's Daughter, I Was A Teenage Werewolf, How To Make A Monster and Tarzan The Ape Man by FanMo's resident "wrapped up rumbler."
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 14, 2016 15:14:14 GMT
Hammer got it right. Big tits are as essential to mummy pulp as sand, hieroglyphics, mouldering bandages, and a casket.
You never fail to amaze me, Dem. While I labour to express these things and end up confusing the issue in vague perplexing terms here we have it in a nutshell. Thomas Kempis must gave been thinking of this kind of wisdom when he said “Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.” Or maybe it was something else
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Post by dem bones on Sept 15, 2016 5:30:44 GMT
Merci, Craig. John Tracey - Claimed By The Dead: ( Horror Stories, Jan. 1935). "A musty tomb in Egypt held the secret of an age-old tragedy."Amos Sewell Uniquely for Horror Stories, no flagellation orgies, fancy dress, heaving globes, bogus 'supernaturalism' - not even a real villain, for crying out loud! Even the tag-line is understated. How did this refugee from Weird Tales ever make the cut? Peter Hopkins, keen Egyptologist, is delighted when his work for the foreign office requires him to relocate to Cairo. His wife Esther, twenty-eight, is less keen - in fact, she seems terrified at the prospect - but gamely offers him her full support. Once settled in his new job, Peter accepts the invitation of Franz Boehler, an old friend of his father, to explore his greatest find to date, the tomb of an unknown young noblewoman of the Rameses era. Rachin Mahmoud, a colleague at the Colonial office, requests to join the party. It is soon clear to Peter why Boehler is so transfixed by his wife. The low relief carvings on the wall of the death chamber are exact replicas of Esther and Mahmoud! Things take a turn for the uncanny when the flash-light inexplicably switches off, and Esther and Mahoud are stolen away by an ancient Priest of Thoth! Whereupon Boehler turns nasty and abandons Peter Hopkins in a sealed chamber. "I was alone in the darkness of the tomb. Alone - and buried alive!" So far, so weird menace. The "Priest of Thoth" can only be a confederate of He-who-stands-to-gain wearing a joke shop mask, right? Except that ain't the case at all. As mentioned above, strange behaviour to the contrary, there is no MAD GENIUS of the piece, while the double reincarnation aspect is genuine.
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