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The Sleepover Mummy Massacre
It's a mummy, and it's got an axe!
It’s Halloween night in 1990 and Brittany just wants to have a sleepover with her friends. She’s recently gone through a nasty breakup with her boyfriend, Donnie vance, and a night of pizza and horror movies with the girls sounds perfect.
But what she doesn’t know is that an uninvited guest is about to crash the fun. a resurrected mummy, armed with an axe, is on the prowl, leaving behind a trail of mutilated bodies as it makes its way to Brittany’s house.
Its hunger for violence just might put an end to girl’s night…Forever!
It’s Halloween night in 1990 and Brittany just wants to have a sleepover with her friends. She’s recently gone through a nasty breakup with her boyfriend, Donnie vance, and a night of pizza and horror movies with the girls sounds perfect.
But what she doesn’t know is that an uninvited guest is about to crash the fun. a resurrected mummy, armed with an axe, is on the prowl, leaving behind a trail of mutilated bodies as it makes its way to Brittany’s house.
Its hunger for violence just might put an end to girl’s night…Forever!
- GenresHorror
215 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 30, 2025
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About the author
Kristopher Rufty
69 books242 followersKristopher Rufty lives in North Carolina with his three children and pets. He’s written over twenty novels, including ALL WILL DIE, THE DEVOURED AND THE DEAD, DESOLATION, THE LURKERS and PILLOWFACE. When he’s not spending time with his family or writing, he’s obsessing over gardening and growing food.
His short story DARLA'S PROBLEM was included in the Splatterpunk Publications anthology FIGHTING BACK, which won the Splatterpunk award for best anthology. THE DEVOURED AND THE DEAD was nominated for a Splatterpunk award.
He can be found on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. For more about Kristopher Rufty, please visit: www.kristopherrufty.com
His short story DARLA'S PROBLEM was included in the Splatterpunk Publications anthology FIGHTING BACK, which won the Splatterpunk award for best anthology. THE DEVOURED AND THE DEAD was nominated for a Splatterpunk award.
He can be found on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. For more about Kristopher Rufty, please visit: www.kristopherrufty.com
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May 20, 2025
This book reads like an 80s movie. Hooked from the beginning. It read so fast and smoothly. It just worked. How does a mummy centuries years old invade a sleepover? Well It kinda makes sense here 😂. I loved all the characters! The kids were well done, and the drama was there. It's been too long since I've read a Rufty. This is probably my 15th Rufty novel.
September 20, 2025
This story explodes out of the starting gates and wraps its horror laden arms around you in its ghoulish embrace.
It has a fun coming of age feel to it, with nostalgic Halloween vibes, that will ultimately lull you into a false sense of security and comfort, before hitting you with the bloody terror, and have you turning the pages quicker than you can run from the resulting carnage!
A steady, captivating build up…. takes an unexpected twist. A fun, addictive, page turner, that's not extreme, just a good old fashioned slasher, with an axe wielding, vengeful mummy!
It has a fun coming of age feel to it, with nostalgic Halloween vibes, that will ultimately lull you into a false sense of security and comfort, before hitting you with the bloody terror, and have you turning the pages quicker than you can run from the resulting carnage!
A steady, captivating build up…. takes an unexpected twist. A fun, addictive, page turner, that's not extreme, just a good old fashioned slasher, with an axe wielding, vengeful mummy!
January 22, 2026
It's Halloween night and three teen girls are planning to have a sleepover. One's younger bother and two friends plan to go trick or treating and then crashing the sleepover to ogle the girls. Unbeknownst to them, a woman transporting a strange sarcophagus nearby has unwittingly unleashed an ancient mummy on the town, one that only seeks to kill.
This was a campy 80's b-horror movie to a "T." Horny kids, school bully, ancient curse causing a mummy to run amok, gruesome, over-the-top kills. There were some plot surprises, like some characters who seemed like they would be around at least close to the end were offed pretty early. At times the story felt like a heartfelt homage to this type of horror from days past, but at times the narrative slipped into overly juvenile thoughts and actions. And the ending was just so abrupt. But I am a sucker for a mummy horror story and I mostly enjoyed this one. - 3.5/5*
This was a campy 80's b-horror movie to a "T." Horny kids, school bully, ancient curse causing a mummy to run amok, gruesome, over-the-top kills. There were some plot surprises, like some characters who seemed like they would be around at least close to the end were offed pretty early. At times the story felt like a heartfelt homage to this type of horror from days past, but at times the narrative slipped into overly juvenile thoughts and actions. And the ending was just so abrupt. But I am a sucker for a mummy horror story and I mostly enjoyed this one. - 3.5/5*
September 7, 2025
It read like a Laymon (which has become the Rufty standard) which is always a good thing.
Satisfying ending.
Satisfying ending.
October 23, 2025
This was such a fun, gory Halloween story that put me in the perfect spooky season mood.
November 4, 2025
review to come.
July 3, 2025
The Sleepover Mummy Massacre is a fun, thrilling read. It grabbed me in from the first chapter, allowing it to be a struggle to put down. I actually finished this book in nearly one sitting. Normally I am not a fan of multiple POVs, but it worked in this case. It felt almost necessary to have as many. This is my third Rufty book, and it did not disappoint!
January 23, 2026
I’m going to have fun tonight, even if it kills me.
About the best way I can describe Kristopher Rufty's "The Sleepover Mummy Massacre" is that it was a hell of a lot of fun in a kind of standard horror release escapist way. I'm not sure if it should be considered a homage to all the great slasher movies over the years - and that's including any listed as being A- or B-grade films - but it just about had a bit of every one I can think of, particularly when sharp pointy things were involved. Halloween night where "jack-o’-lanterns’ toothy grins guttered in the dark"? Check. Pre-teens doing stupid pre-teen things ("…all rational thought had been smothered by the possibility of seeing tits.")? Check. Hot teenage girls having a hot teenage girl sleepover? Check. Horny teenage boys basically exhibiting no intelligence from the waist up ("…three girls spending the night together would probably call for some fornication.")? Check. An amusing situation with an ordered "stripper"? Well, yeah, also check in both a funny and "oh shit" kind of way. So what's missing? OK, technically, we never had a scene at a camp but there were campers involved! So let's let that one slide.
The mummy lowered its jaw… dehydrated, purple tongue inside and spacious broken teeth.
Seriously though if you take just about any scenario that takes place on dry land (ruling out things like "Jaws" or the "Alien" franchises, though in the latter case I think they'll get to this eventually), Rufty tosses it into the mix. And if you're looking to fill your quota of death, dismemberment, and mayhem, well again, "SMM" will take care of your needs ("…his head crumbled into a soggy sack of flesh and shattered skull. His eyes shot out of the gory cloud like twin darts."). All you have to do then is imagine all of what I've described and replace the stabby person/creature with… A MUMMY! Yeah, the title was already a spoiler so I don't feel bad about telling you that. And this isn't one of those huggable ones with freshly cleaned bandages that you get sometimes, this one is all stinky and dead and doesn't automatically speak English either! Gasp and what not!
How it could move so fast and still seemed to be shambling in slow motion made no sense.
And yes, the "how the hell do we get a mummy involved in a small-town Halloween set-up?" is handled quite well ("We're transporting a golden coffin packed with a rotted corpse in the back of our truck!"). In fact, I'm not even sure that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz could have held their own against this creature who not only had its special evil immortality going to town on everyone but also learned very quickly how to use an axe! And bullets? Forget it! Even a strong, brass-knuckle assisted punch from the token big black dude (not my description, just a fact!) didn't phase this creature that just had killing on its mind. Or whatever still counted as its mind in all that creepy muck wrapped up in authentic mummy wrappings. Heck, even magic amulets seemed powerless to do much here though they are good for affecting weather patterns!
The mummy is…just killing and killing because that was what it had been awakened to do.
No, somehow this mummy has made its way to America's shores by way of an archaeologist - who we never meet face-to-face - who was involved in "some kind of illegal expedition that was off the books." I'm just assuming that's perfectly reasonable for the archaeological world and letting it slide. Now normally, the mummy would have then just been stored in this guy's basement for all eternity (again, because of weird archaeological reasons, you know, where maybe his other archaeological buddies would come over and look at it). But totally unrelated to the mummy, his wife is horribly murdered and the criminals (very much plural) all get off scott-free because this is the land of justice for all who can afford it. So what would any sane person do? That's right: awaken the mummy (there are apparently books for that!) and set it on a course of total destruction to avenge his deceased wife. Only the mummy apparently didn't want to stop and that's where a lot of the problems really got going. And did I mention the curse? Yeah, kind of goes without saying in terms of mummies…
There was no mistaking its authenticity. It was the real thing, all right.
Jump ahead in time and his daughter is doing what she can to remove the curse, namely looking for a funeral home that specializes in bizarre and most likely illegal cremations when - you guessed it - our bandage-wrapped fiend breaks free (why the hell were they mucking around with it before they got to their destination? LEAVE THE CURSED DEAD THING ALONE!). And it not only breaks free but is now running around where all the standard horror movie scenarios have been set up perfectly. Rufty handles then jumping from Victim Group A to Victim Group B and so on (no joke, it probably goes way past Group Z!) pretty smoothly and it even gets pretty fun to see who is going to get it next … not that any of that is much of a surprise. Basically, we meet 'em, they give us the minimum of exposition about their lives, then the mummy chops 'em up or twists their heads backwards or rips them into shreds and so on ("My arm! It’s gone!"). And like shampoo bottles tell us, the name of the game here is "Repeat" as needed. Still, it all heads to a pretty clever crescendo even if the fade to black at the end is a little bit weaker than I would have liked. The only questions we as the readers have to answer along the way is who - if anyone - will survive this insane night.
His shoulders popped as the arms tore out of their sockets.
Trust me, I think this story would make an absolutely awesome movie. In terms of being presented in book form, yeah, it's also quite good as a pretty quick and enjoyable read although I still wish Rufty would put a little more effort into his editing efforts. Things like folks having the same name throughout (is the stripper named Tania or Talia?) and even basic spellchecking (what the hell does "tenson" mean?) are just musts in terms of catching them before a book goes out. It was a little better this time than some of his other books, so that's why I'm not going to go crazy and deduct three limbs and a couple of scalps from my ratings. Still, remember kids: when the nearly indestructible evil mummy shows up, run away from area and not back into the killing fields, m'kay? That's free advice, write it down y'all!
About the best way I can describe Kristopher Rufty's "The Sleepover Mummy Massacre" is that it was a hell of a lot of fun in a kind of standard horror release escapist way. I'm not sure if it should be considered a homage to all the great slasher movies over the years - and that's including any listed as being A- or B-grade films - but it just about had a bit of every one I can think of, particularly when sharp pointy things were involved. Halloween night where "jack-o’-lanterns’ toothy grins guttered in the dark"? Check. Pre-teens doing stupid pre-teen things ("…all rational thought had been smothered by the possibility of seeing tits.")? Check. Hot teenage girls having a hot teenage girl sleepover? Check. Horny teenage boys basically exhibiting no intelligence from the waist up ("…three girls spending the night together would probably call for some fornication.")? Check. An amusing situation with an ordered "stripper"? Well, yeah, also check in both a funny and "oh shit" kind of way. So what's missing? OK, technically, we never had a scene at a camp but there were campers involved! So let's let that one slide.
The mummy lowered its jaw… dehydrated, purple tongue inside and spacious broken teeth.
Seriously though if you take just about any scenario that takes place on dry land (ruling out things like "Jaws" or the "Alien" franchises, though in the latter case I think they'll get to this eventually), Rufty tosses it into the mix. And if you're looking to fill your quota of death, dismemberment, and mayhem, well again, "SMM" will take care of your needs ("…his head crumbled into a soggy sack of flesh and shattered skull. His eyes shot out of the gory cloud like twin darts."). All you have to do then is imagine all of what I've described and replace the stabby person/creature with… A MUMMY! Yeah, the title was already a spoiler so I don't feel bad about telling you that. And this isn't one of those huggable ones with freshly cleaned bandages that you get sometimes, this one is all stinky and dead and doesn't automatically speak English either! Gasp and what not!
How it could move so fast and still seemed to be shambling in slow motion made no sense.
And yes, the "how the hell do we get a mummy involved in a small-town Halloween set-up?" is handled quite well ("We're transporting a golden coffin packed with a rotted corpse in the back of our truck!"). In fact, I'm not even sure that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz could have held their own against this creature who not only had its special evil immortality going to town on everyone but also learned very quickly how to use an axe! And bullets? Forget it! Even a strong, brass-knuckle assisted punch from the token big black dude (not my description, just a fact!) didn't phase this creature that just had killing on its mind. Or whatever still counted as its mind in all that creepy muck wrapped up in authentic mummy wrappings. Heck, even magic amulets seemed powerless to do much here though they are good for affecting weather patterns!
The mummy is…just killing and killing because that was what it had been awakened to do.
No, somehow this mummy has made its way to America's shores by way of an archaeologist - who we never meet face-to-face - who was involved in "some kind of illegal expedition that was off the books." I'm just assuming that's perfectly reasonable for the archaeological world and letting it slide. Now normally, the mummy would have then just been stored in this guy's basement for all eternity (again, because of weird archaeological reasons, you know, where maybe his other archaeological buddies would come over and look at it). But totally unrelated to the mummy, his wife is horribly murdered and the criminals (very much plural) all get off scott-free because this is the land of justice for all who can afford it. So what would any sane person do? That's right: awaken the mummy (there are apparently books for that!) and set it on a course of total destruction to avenge his deceased wife. Only the mummy apparently didn't want to stop and that's where a lot of the problems really got going. And did I mention the curse? Yeah, kind of goes without saying in terms of mummies…
There was no mistaking its authenticity. It was the real thing, all right.
Jump ahead in time and his daughter is doing what she can to remove the curse, namely looking for a funeral home that specializes in bizarre and most likely illegal cremations when - you guessed it - our bandage-wrapped fiend breaks free (why the hell were they mucking around with it before they got to their destination? LEAVE THE CURSED DEAD THING ALONE!). And it not only breaks free but is now running around where all the standard horror movie scenarios have been set up perfectly. Rufty handles then jumping from Victim Group A to Victim Group B and so on (no joke, it probably goes way past Group Z!) pretty smoothly and it even gets pretty fun to see who is going to get it next … not that any of that is much of a surprise. Basically, we meet 'em, they give us the minimum of exposition about their lives, then the mummy chops 'em up or twists their heads backwards or rips them into shreds and so on ("My arm! It’s gone!"). And like shampoo bottles tell us, the name of the game here is "Repeat" as needed. Still, it all heads to a pretty clever crescendo even if the fade to black at the end is a little bit weaker than I would have liked. The only questions we as the readers have to answer along the way is who - if anyone - will survive this insane night.
His shoulders popped as the arms tore out of their sockets.
Trust me, I think this story would make an absolutely awesome movie. In terms of being presented in book form, yeah, it's also quite good as a pretty quick and enjoyable read although I still wish Rufty would put a little more effort into his editing efforts. Things like folks having the same name throughout (is the stripper named Tania or Talia?) and even basic spellchecking (what the hell does "tenson" mean?) are just musts in terms of catching them before a book goes out. It was a little better this time than some of his other books, so that's why I'm not going to go crazy and deduct three limbs and a couple of scalps from my ratings. Still, remember kids: when the nearly indestructible evil mummy shows up, run away from area and not back into the killing fields, m'kay? That's free advice, write it down y'all!
June 1, 2025
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The Sleepover Mummy Massacre
Kristopher Rufty
This book is a fun ride!!! Halloween anyone??? This book follows middle school aged boys desperate to see some action at their big sister's sleepover, but before they make it there they run into some trouble with a bully+ who runs into some trouble with another, older bully- Much older. So old, in fact, that it smells the rank of death, is trailing pieces of toilet paper (?), and is hell bent on slashing every soul in it's path! If you enjoy mummies, coming of age stories, murder, and a fast ride, grab yourself a copy asap - it's too good to miss out on!
The Sleepover Mummy Massacre
Kristopher Rufty
This book is a fun ride!!! Halloween anyone??? This book follows middle school aged boys desperate to see some action at their big sister's sleepover, but before they make it there they run into some trouble with a bully+ who runs into some trouble with another, older bully- Much older. So old, in fact, that it smells the rank of death, is trailing pieces of toilet paper (?), and is hell bent on slashing every soul in it's path! If you enjoy mummies, coming of age stories, murder, and a fast ride, grab yourself a copy asap - it's too good to miss out on!
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January 18, 2026
I have never seen a better, more descriptive title of a book. Yep, that’s what you signed up for and that’s what ya get. Mummy is pretty creepy though honestly.
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