Paula Guran (ed.) - The Mammoth Book Of The Mummy

[dem]

Paula Guran (ed.) - The Mammoth Book Of The Mummy (Robinson, 2017)

Cover art provided by Shutterstock (Hope they didn't put themselves to a lot of trouble)

Paula Guran - Introduction: My Mouth Has Been Given to Me That I May Speak

Karen Joy Fowler - Private Grave 9
Robert Sharp - The Good Shabti
Anglea Slatter - Egyptian Revival
Kage Baker - The Queen in Yellow
John Langan - On Skua Island
Paul Cornell - Ramesses on the Frontier
Kim Newman - Egyptian Avenue
Gail Carriger - The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn’t, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar
Steve Duffy - The Night Comes On
Stephen Graham Jones - American Mummy
Joe R. Lansdale - Bubba-Ho-Tep
Carole Nelson Douglas - Fruit of the Tomb
Lois Tilton & Noreen Doyle - The Chapter of Coming Forth by Night
Terry Dowling - The Shaddowes Box
Norman Partridge - The Mummy’s Heart
Keith Taylor - The Emerald Scarab
Helen Marshall - The Embalmer
Adam Roberts - Tollund
Will Hill - Three Memories of Death

Blurb:
Human mummies‘ preserved by accident or intent, have been found on every continent except Antarctica. These enigmatic remains of humanity have long inspired tales of reanimation, reincarnation, love that that outlives death and curses that bring vengeance from the past.
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy presents a thrilling collection of tales written for the twenty-first century, some of them brand new, which explore, subvert and reinvent the mummy mythos.
Here you will find stories of revenge, romance, monsters and mayhem, ranging freely across time periods, genres and styles ...

Three originals, sixteen reprints including four from Jared Shurin's lively The Book of The Dead (Jurassic London, 2013), plus Robert Sharp's chapbook, The Good Shabti (2015), from the same publisher. Earliest is Joe R. Lansdale's Bubba-Ho-Tep from 1994. Norman Partridges The Mummy's Heart was far the best of those few I sampled from PG's Halloween anthology. Particularly looking forward to the Steve Duffy.

[franklinmarsh]

Nov 20, 2018 6:58:39 GMT dem said:

Kim Newman - Egyptian Avenue

Had a quick preview of this via Google books - looks pretty good


Joe R. Lansdale - Bubba-Ho-Tep

Have seen the film - it's a belter.

[ripper]

Nov 20, 2018 6:58:39 GMT dem said:

Paula Guran (ed.) - The Mammoth Book Of The Mummy (Robinson, 2017)

Cover art provided by Shutterstock (Hope they didn't put themselves to a lot of trouble)

Paula Guran - Introduction: My Mouth Has Been Given to Me That I May Speak

Karen Joy Fowler - Private Grave 9
Robert Sharp - The Good Shabti
Anglea Slatter - Egyptian Revival
Kage Baker - The Queen in Yellow
John Langan - On Skua Island
Paul Cornell - Ramesses on the Frontier
Kim Newman - Egyptian Avenue
Gail Carriger - The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn’t, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar
Steve Duffy - The Night Comes On
Stephen Graham Jones - American Mummy
Joe R. Lansdale - Bubba-Ho-Tep
Carole Nelson Douglas - Fruit of the Tomb
Lois Tilton & Noreen Doyle - The Chapter of Coming Forth by Night
Terry Dowling - The Shaddowes Box
Norman Partridge - The Mummy’s Heart
Keith Taylor - The Emerald Scarab
Helen Marshall - The Embalmer
Adam Roberts - Tollund
Will Hill - Three Memories of Death

Blurb:
Human mummies‘ preserved by accident or intent, have been found on every continent except Antarctica. These enigmatic remains of humanity have long inspired tales of reanimation, reincarnation, love that that outlives death and curses that bring vengeance from the past.
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy presents a thrilling collection of tales written for the twenty-first century, some of them brand new, which explore, subvert and reinvent the mummy mythos.
Here you will find stories of revenge, romance, monsters and mayhem, ranging freely across time periods, genres and styles ...

Three originals, sixteen reprints including four from Jared Shurin's lively The Book of The Dead (Jurassic London, 2013), plus Robert Sharp's chapbook, The Good Shabti (2015), from the same publisher. Earliest is Joe R. Lansdale's Bubba-Ho-Tep from 1994. Norman Partridges The Mummy's Heart was far the best of those few I sampled from PG's Halloween anthology. Particularly looking forward to the Steve Duffy.

I think you will enjoy Steve Duffy's tale, Dem.

[dem]

Kim Newman - Egyptian Avenue: (Embrace The Mutation, 2002).

It's a penny-dreadful curse ... They must have been dead for eighty years. Why sit quietly for all that time bt kick up a row this summer.
"Maybe they object to something topical, " suggested Vanessa. "Like what's Top of the Pops"
"It's not dreadful enough to be after the Bay City Rollers, luv" said Fred.
"Good point."

Set in Kingstead (H**hg*te] Cemetery, London N6, during the summer of 197-, a Diogenes Club adventure starring flamboyant psychic detective Richard Jeperson, ex-cop Fred Regent, and Vanessa, mysterious glamour gal in go-go boots. The trio investigate the extravagantly haunted mausoleum of Victorian publisher George Oldrid Bunning, whose fondness for trendy Egyptian trappings was such that, come his death, he left instructions that five of his servants be entombed alive alongside him. It is they who are responsible for the local disturbances, though, alas, their intentions are entirely noble. It transpires that these phantoms are attempting to warn the living against insane Pyramid Publishing supremo George Rameses Bunning, who plans to reprise his grandfather's funeral on an infinitely grander scale.

Needless to say, litigious media mogul Derek Leech plays his evil part. He is instrumental in driving rival Bunning to bankruptcy and impending self-destruction by successfully suing Pyramid's popular Stunna magazine for libel.

Good fun!

[dem]

Nov 20, 2018 12:47:31 GMT ripper said:

I think you will enjoy Steve Duffy's tale, Dem.

I did. The blaze at the dig and suspenseful trapped lift scenes in particular. Have you read his The Clay Party in Mark Valentine's Wordsworth edition, The Werewolf Pack?

Steve Duffy - The Night Comes On: (The Night Comes On, Ash Tree, 1998). Set during the 1930's. Redmond 'The Fiery Lucifer' O'Connell, adventurer, Black Magician, serial litigant, walking infringement of Aleister Crowley's image rights, loudly claims to have discovered several superior mummies in a ravine West of the Valley of Kings. O'Connell brags of his intention to reanimate the embalmed!

Aided by a bent Embassy official, 'The Fiery Lucifer' illegally ships one of the finer specimens to the British Museum, prior to meeting his doom in a horrific archaeological "accident."

Meanwhile in Bloomsbury, Egyptologist Professor Mellor, Gilbert Cox of the Daily Dispatch, and nightwatchman Dalton keep vigil over a restless casket ....