- Taschenbuch: 228 Seiten
- Verlag: Wordworth ed Ltd (31. Oktober 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1840224525
- ISBN-13: 978-1840224528
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,3 x 12,4 x 1,5 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 279.872 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Beware, the Dead are coming back! This is a unique and fascinating collection of early mummy stories that helped to establish the chilling concept of the Dead returning to life as a potent sub-genre of horror fiction. The main feature on the mummy bill, "The Jewel of the Seven Stars" by Bram Stoker, is generally regarded as his best work after "Dracula". A weird mixture of adventure, the supernatural and science fiction is found in Jane Webb's "The Mummy", a tale written in 1827 but set in 2126. "Some Words with a Mummy" is by the great horror writer Edgar Allen Poe. Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Ring of Thoth" is the classic mummy tale and was the basis for the 1932 movie "The Mummy" starring Boris Karloff and, indeed most mummy films ever since. "Lot 249", another Doyle chiller, completes this collection, which is guaranteed to entertain and possibly prompt a nightmare.
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Beware, the Dead are coming back! This is a unique and fascinating collection of early mummy stories that helped to establish the chilling concept of the Dead returning to life as a potent sub-genre of horror fiction. The main feature on the mummy bill, "The Jewel of the Seven Stars" by Bram Stoker, is generally regarded as his best work after "Dracula". A weird mixture of adventure, the supernatural and science fiction is found in Jane Webb's "The Mummy", a tale written in 1827 but set in 2126. "Some Words with a Mummy" is by the great horror writer Edgar Allen Poe. Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Ring of Thoth" is the classic mummy tale and was the basis for the 1932 movie "The Mummy" starring Boris Karloff and, indeed most mummy films ever since. "Lot 249", another Doyle chiller, completes this collection, which is guaranteed to entertain and possibly prompt a nightmare.
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Perhaps Should Be Titled "'The Jewel of the Seven Stars' and Other Mummy Tales"
26. Mai 2009
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"Return from the Dead," selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies, is part of Wordsworth's "Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural" series. The 273-page paperback, according to its back cover, purports to be "a unique and fascinating collection of early mummy stories." But I think you have to keep in mind the following facts before you buy one.
[CONTENTS] The book contains only five stories and one of them is an excerpt of a long, three-volume novel. Here is what you find in this book:
1. "The Jewel of the Seven Stars" by Bram Stoker (both endings included)
2. "The Mummy" by Jane Webb (actually, an 18-page excerpt of Jane C. Webb Loudon's "The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" published in 1827)
3. "Some Words with a Mummy" by Edgar Allan Poe
4. "The Ring of Thoth" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. "Lot 248" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Perhaps this Wordsworth mummy "anthology" should be re-titled "The Jewel of the Seven Stars and Other Mummy Tales" because Bram Stoker's novel takes up about three quarters of the entire volume. Jane's Webb's tale, unique as it is (set in the year 2126), is less than 20 pages and I think some of you have already read the other three tales. Frankly, I don't see a point in compiling a collection in this way.
To be fair, the collected works themselves are all great. "The Jewel of the Seven Stars" is an eerie tale about an archaeologist, his lovely daughter and a mummy brought from Egypt. The book was written by Bram Stoker (best known as creator of Dracula) and originally published in 1903.
The excerpt of Jane Webb's "The Mummy" here includes a scene in which two heroes arrive at a pyramid in Egypt (riding a modernized "balloon") and they conduct one experiment inside it. Some part may remind you of the "Indiana Jones" films.
"Some Words with a Mummy" is not a horror story. The conversation with the mummy is a satire which is still interesting to read. Doyle's "The Ring of Thoth" follows a story of a researcher who, being trapped in the Egyptian room in the Louvre at midnight, witnesses something unusual there. In "Lot 248" an Oxford student suspects that another student living in the same building is actually engaged in a sinister plot against others.
The book "Return from the Dead" has a 6-page introduction by David Stuart Davies, which is readable, but too short, I am afraid. The collection is not a bad choice if you haven't read the Stoker's story, but remember the book does NOT have any notes.
[CONTENTS] The book contains only five stories and one of them is an excerpt of a long, three-volume novel. Here is what you find in this book:
1. "The Jewel of the Seven Stars" by Bram Stoker (both endings included)
2. "The Mummy" by Jane Webb (actually, an 18-page excerpt of Jane C. Webb Loudon's "The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" published in 1827)
3. "Some Words with a Mummy" by Edgar Allan Poe
4. "The Ring of Thoth" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. "Lot 248" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Perhaps this Wordsworth mummy "anthology" should be re-titled "The Jewel of the Seven Stars and Other Mummy Tales" because Bram Stoker's novel takes up about three quarters of the entire volume. Jane's Webb's tale, unique as it is (set in the year 2126), is less than 20 pages and I think some of you have already read the other three tales. Frankly, I don't see a point in compiling a collection in this way.
To be fair, the collected works themselves are all great. "The Jewel of the Seven Stars" is an eerie tale about an archaeologist, his lovely daughter and a mummy brought from Egypt. The book was written by Bram Stoker (best known as creator of Dracula) and originally published in 1903.
The excerpt of Jane Webb's "The Mummy" here includes a scene in which two heroes arrive at a pyramid in Egypt (riding a modernized "balloon") and they conduct one experiment inside it. Some part may remind you of the "Indiana Jones" films.
"Some Words with a Mummy" is not a horror story. The conversation with the mummy is a satire which is still interesting to read. Doyle's "The Ring of Thoth" follows a story of a researcher who, being trapped in the Egyptian room in the Louvre at midnight, witnesses something unusual there. In "Lot 248" an Oxford student suspects that another student living in the same building is actually engaged in a sinister plot against others.
The book "Return from the Dead" has a 6-page introduction by David Stuart Davies, which is readable, but too short, I am afraid. The collection is not a bad choice if you haven't read the Stoker's story, but remember the book does NOT have any notes.
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