Classic Mummies and Zombies

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Jamesian Enthusiast]

Post your favorite classic stories with mummies and zombies, or ghouls for that matter.

[Ray]

Pharos The Egyptian by Guy Boothby is a grand mummy novel from 1898. (Much more enjoyable than Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars.) Boothby's book can be found free on-line at the following link:

http://manybooks.net/titles/boothbygo...

[Cathy]

Lovecraft did a mummy story! Well, a tombs of the pharoahs story ...
http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskaton...

Zombies/Zuvembis:

http://www.manybooks.net/titles/howar...

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Jamesian Enthusiast]

Thanks for the recommendations!

[MountainAshleah]

One of the things I enjoy about discovering all of these Victorian monster potboilers is they are free of contemporary "taint," if you will. So much depended on the Hollywood-free imagination (not that I don't love films). It's quite fascinating.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Jamesian Enthusiast]

Very good point, MountainShelby. I agree. I think that Hollywood has very little creativity nowadays.

[Moon]

I liked Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars.

[Kurt]

Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "Post your favorite classic stories with mummies and zombies, or ghouls for that matter."

Thanks for the tip, Ray. Sounds like a good one.

[Philip]

MountainShelby wrote: "One of the things I enjoy about discovering all of these Victorian monster potboilers is they are free of contemporary "taint," if you will. So much depended on the Hollywood-free imagination"

Word. Film and TV has had a profound and pretty pernicious effect on writers.

[MountainAshleah]

There was an article circulating about how many young writers only know movies/TV . . . they have never read the foundational texts . . . fascinating.

[Cathy]

I have never understood why people who don't read would want to write.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Jamesian Enthusiast]

I agree, Cathy. How can you even write if you don't read at all? The media are totally different from written word. Even a screenplay just doesn't have the feel of prose.

[Cathy]

Plus, why would you want to create something that you have no interest in?

I sometimes use a message board for Kindle owners, and it's heavily populated with people who self-publish on Amazon -- many of them brag that they never read ANYTHING but other indie/self-published writers. Really? You have zero interest in the entire universe of the written word that has been created by people who don't self-publish on Amazon?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Jamesian Enthusiast]

Hmm. That leaves out a lot of books...

[Karen]

Ray wrote: " Pharos The Egyptian by Guy Boothby is a grand mummy novel from 1898. (Much more enjoyable than Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars.) Boothby's b..."

Pharos the Egyptian is free for Kindle at Amazon

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Jamesian Enthusiast]

Thanks, Karon!

[Kurt]

Cathy wrote: "Plus, why would you want to create something that you have no interest in?

I sometimes use a message board for Kindle owners, and it's heavily populated with people who self-publish on Amazon --..."

You can tell they don't read when you try to read what they write. It's painfully clear.

[Werner]

A really good anthology of classic mummy stories is The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse (edited by Peter Haining, an indefatigable editor of collections of supernatural and macabre fiction). It includes stories by Poe ("A Few Words With a Mummy"), Conan Doyle, Lovecraft, etc.

[Martha]

Thanks, Werner, that sounds good!

[Karen]

Another one for my TBR pile - thanks Werner!

[Werner]

You're welcome, Martha and Karen --hope you like it!

[Michael]

A pulp-fiction adventure-horror is The Eye of Karnak by John E. Muller, but probably quite hard to find.

I read it many years ago, so can't really remember much about it, but I've kept it so it must have been pretty good.

[Kurt]

Michael wrote: "A pulp-fiction adventure-horror is The Eye of Karnak by John E. Muller, but probably quite hard to find.

I read it many years ago, so can't really remember much abo..."

Love that cover!

[Michael]

I know! I think "lurid" and "exotic" are good adjectives for it.

[Cathy]

I adore old pulp covers, and they really got the look right on that one.