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Norman Partridge’s first short story appeared in Cemetery Dance #2, and his debut novel, Slippin’ into Darkness, was the first original novel published by Cemetery Dance Publications. Since then, he has written a series novel (The Crow: Wicked Prayer), which was adapted for the screen, comics for DC, and six collections of short stories. Partridge’s Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2006 and has become a seasonal classic. The recipient of three Bram Stoker awards and an International Horror Guild Award, he lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife, writer Tia V. Travis, and their daughter Neve. His latest novel is The Devil’s Brood.
Adam Roberts is professor of nineteenth-century literature at Royal Holloway University of London, and the author of sixteen science fiction novels. He won both the 2012 BSFA Award for Best Novel, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, for Jack Glass. His most recent novels are Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (Gollancz, 2014), Bête (Gollancz, 2015), and a racy SF novelization of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, The Thing Itself (Gollanz, 2016).
Robert Sharp works for the free speech campaign group English PEN and has written widely on freedom of expression issues, including for the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, and the Huffington Post. He was formerly a director of 59 Productions, the award-winning video design agency. He lives with his family in Bromley, UK.
Brisbane-based writer Angela Slatter has won five Aurealis Awards and one British Fantasy Award, been a finalist for the Norma K. Hemming Award once and the World Fantasy Award twice. She’s published six story collections, has a PhD, was an inaugural Queensland Writers Fellow, is a freelance editor, and teaches creative writing. Jo Fletcher Books published her debut novel, Vigil, in 2016, with its sequel, Corpselight, coming in 2017. Prime Books published a collection of her short fiction, A Feast of Sorrows, in 2016 as well.
Born in Tasmania, Keith Taylor now resides in Melbourne, Australia. Getting his start in Ted White’s Fantastic, Taylor went on to collaborate with Andrew J. Offutt on two novels based upon the Robert E. Howard hero, Cormac Mac Art. A two-time winner of the Ditmar Award, his series of novels centering around the Irish bard, Felimid mac Fal, was published throughout the 1980s. Much of Taylor’s fictional output in the 1990s was in the Arthurian fantasy subgenre. Many stories featuring his character, Kamose the Magician, were published in Weird Tales from 1999 to 2006 and later collected (2012) in Servant of the Jackal God: The Tales of Kamose, Archpriest of Anubis.
Lois Tilton is a science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and horror writer. She won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in the short form category for “Pericles the Tyrant.” Novelette “The Gladiator’s War” was a nominee for the Nebula Award. Tilton authored six novels and sold over seventy pieces of short fiction between 1985 and 2009, many of which appeared in Asimov’s and Realms of Fantasy. She has reviewed short fiction for Locus Online and the Internet Review of Science Fiction.
Acknowledgements
“The Queen in Yellow” © 2002 Kage Baker. First publication: Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossier (Golden Gryphon Press, 2002).
“The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn’t, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar” © 2014 Gail Carriger. First publication: The Book of the Dead, ed. Jared Shulin (Jurassic London, 2014).
“Ramesses on the Frontier” © 2014 Paul Cornell. First publication: The Book of the Dead, ed. Jared Shulin (Jurassic London, 2014).
“Fruit of the Tomb” © 1998 Carole Nelson Douglas. First publication: (as “The Mummy Case”) Cat Crimes Through Time, eds. Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1999).
“The Shaddowwes Box” © 2011 Terry Dowling. First publication: Ghosts by Gaslight, eds. Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (Harper Voyager, 2011).
“The Night Comes On” © 1998 Steve Duffy. First publication: The Night Comes On (Ash-Tree Press, 1998).
“Private Grave 9” © 2003 Karen Joy Fowler. First publication: McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon (Vintage, 2003).
“Three Memories of Death” © 2014 Will Hill. First publication: The Book of the Dead, ed. Jared Shulin (Jurassic London, 2014).
“American Mummy” © 2017 Stephen Graham Jones. Original to this volume.
“On Skua Island” © 2001 John Langan. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2001.
“Bubba Ho-Tep” © 1994 Joe R. Lansdale. First publication: The King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem, ed. Paul M. Sammon (Delta,1994).
“The Embalmer” © 2017 Helen Marshall. Original to this volume.
“Egyptian Avenue” © 2002 Kim Newman. First publication: Embrace the Mutation: Fiction Inspired by the Art of J. K. Potter, eds. Bill Sheehan & William Schafer (Subterranean Press, 2002).
“The Mummy’s Heart” © 2013 Norman Partridge. First publication: Halloween: Magic, Mystery and the Macabre, ed. Paula Guran (Prime Books, 2013).
“Tollund” © 2014 Adam Roberts. First publication: The Book of the Dead, ed. Jared Shulin (Jurassic London, 2014).
“The Good Shabti” © 2014 Robert Sharp. First publication: The Good Shabti (Jurassic London, 2014).
“Egyptian Revival” © 2017 Angela Slatter. Original to this volume.
“The Emerald Scarab” © 2001 Keith Taylor. First publication: Weird Tales, Spring 2001.
“The Chapter of Coming Forth by Night” © 2000 Lois Tilton & Noreen Doyle. First publication: Realms of Fantasy, February 2000.
About the Editor
As a child, Paula Guran wanted to be an Egyptologist. She grew up, but didn’t become an Egyptologist. Her love for the subject and other other archeological and historical eras—as well as her autodidactic study of such—never died.
Now—many years later—Guran is the senior editor for Prime Books and an anthologist who has written on mummies in literature for a couple of encyclopedias. Despite having about three dozen anthologies to her credit, she was more thrilled by the chance to edit this one than you might imagine.
The mother of four, mother-in-law of two, and grandmother of three, she lives in Akron, Ohio, only forty-five minutes away from the Cleveland Museum of Art and its Egyptian collection, which is internationally recognized as one of the finest of its kind.