ANCIENT EGYPT
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Last updated: 24 March 2009 Titles, including translations, added within the last
three months are noted.
The following science-fiction & fantasy short stories and novels feature significant elements drawn from ancient, and most especially pharaonic, Egypt. If you would like to contribute to the list with either new items or additions/corrections to the current list, please see the guidelines on the introduction page. |
| FANTASY & HORROR | Ancient Setting |
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| SCIENCE FICTION | Ancient Setting |
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see also:
Fiction for Young Adults - Biblical
Fiction for Young Adults - Fantasy & Horror - Ancient Setting
Fiction for Young Adults - Fantasy & Horror - Modern Setting
Fiction for Young Adults - Science Fiction
Fiction for Young Adults - Time Travel
Ancient Egypt in Biblical Fiction
| Anonymous (trans. ?)
"The Shipwrecked Sailor" 1903: The Book of Short Stories, ed. Alexander Jessup & Henry Seidel Canby: D. Appleton & Co. A translation of this ancient story in which a sailor recounts a shipwreck that brought him to the mysterious island inhabited by a snake-god. |
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| Anonymous (trans. W. M. Flinders Petrie)
"Setna and The Magic Book" 1925: Great Short Stories of the World, ed. Barrett H. Clarke & Maxim Leiber: Cleveland: World Publishing Company, Cleveland 1927: Great Short Stories of the World, ed. Barrett H. Clarke & Maxim Leiber: London: Heinemann 1927: Gems of the World's Best Classics, ed. Llewellyn Jones: Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co. 1929: 131 Best Stories, ed. Llewellyn Jones: Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co. A translation of this ancient story in which a son of Rameses II searches for the Book of Thoth. First published in Egyptian Tales Translated from the Papyri, Second Series, XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty, 1895. |
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| Anonymous (= Hale, Edward Everett)
"Hands Off" 1881: Harper's (March) 1982: Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century, ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg: pp. 157-170 (as by Edward Everett Hale) Because of a spirit's interference, Joseph is not sold into Egypt; the spirit and his mentor watch the Phoenecians conquer the Mediterranean area in consequence. |
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| Anonymous (= Terrasson, Abbé Jean)
Sethos, histoire, ou Vie tirée des monumens anecdotes de l'ancienne Egypte, traduite d'un manuscrit grec 1731: Paris: J. Guérin 1732: Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie 1767: Paris: Chez Desaint 1825 1999: Nîmes: Editions Lacour
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| Anthony, Piers
GEODYSSEY 1 -- Isle of Woman 1993: New York: Tor Chapter 13 of this epoch-spanning novel is set at the Battle of Kadesh. 4 -- The Muse of Art 1999: New York: Tor Includes a chapter or chapters set in ancient Egypt. |
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| Apuleius, Lucius
The Golden Ass, or, Metamorphosis (= The Transformation of Lucius) Undated (c. 170) 1566: Oxford (translated by William Adlington) Transformed into a donkey, a man is redeemed by participating in the mysteries of Isis. |
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| Astor, William Waldorf
"The Confession of Rui" 1900: Pharaoh's Daughter and Other Stories, William Waldorf Astor: London: Macmillan The brother of Potiphar witnesses the events involving Joseph. "Pharaoh's Daughter" 1900: Pharaoh's Daughter and Other Stories, William Waldorf Astor: London: Macmillan An unhappy Egyptian princess finds the infant Moses. |
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| Betiero, Dr. T. J.
Nedoure, Priestess of the Magi: An Historical Romance of White and Black Magic 1916: Seattle: Wohlstein (revised ed.) |
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| Boullosa, Carmen De un salto descabalga la reina [Spanish] 2002: Editorial Debate
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| Brother G. (= Walker, Gregory)
SHADES OF MEMNON 1 -- Shades of Memnon 1999: Posen, Illinois: Seker Nefer Press Memnon, hero of the Trojan War. 2 -- Ra Force Rising 2001: Posen, Illinois: Seker Nefer Press A Kushite youth fights for his family's survival. 3 -- African Atlantis Unbound |
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| Brown, Brian
"How Nefer-ka-ptah Found the Book of Thoth" 1970: Golden Cities, Far: Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II, ed. Lin Carter: New York: Ballantine A retelling of this ancient Egyptian story. |
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| Brown, Joseph M.
Astyanax: An Epic Romance of Ilion, Atlantis & Amaraca 1907: New York: Broadway Publishing Co. (3 vols; illus. William Lincoln Hudson) The son of the Trojan hero Hector leads the defeated Trojans to Atlantis and then to Mexico, with a brief stop in Egypt along the way. |
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| Burrell, C. Scavella
"The Book of Things Which Must Not Be Remembered" 2003: Strange Horizons e-zine (May 5) (illus. Tatiana Starchevsky) A very old man teaches his great-granddaughter to write. She records the story he tells of the Hyksos occupation and his love for an Habiru woman named Rachel. |
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| Butler, Bill King Tut's Gold: Mystery of the Golden Water-Screw 2007: AuthorHouse A Nubian relative of King Akhenaten's mother orders the construction of a cylinder that makes gold from water, and an amulet elevates a young scribe, Ahmes-IV, to a position in a cult that will later murder King Tut. |
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| Caldecott, Moyra (= Brown, Olivia)
AMUN TRILOGY 1 -- Daughter of Amun 1989 Mushroom Publishing eBook (as Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun) The story of the woman who became pharaoh. 2 -- Son of the Sun 1986: London: Allison & Busby 1990: London: Arrow (revised) 2001: Mushroom Publishing eBook (as Akhenaten: Son of the Sun) The story of Akhenaten. 3 -- Daughter of Ra 1990: London: Arrow Mushroom Publishing eBook (as Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra) The story of Ankhesenamun, wife of Tutankhamun. The Silver Vortex 1987: London: Arrow Mushroom eBooks Set in Bronze Age Britain and Egypt (Eighteenth Dynasty); sequel to The Guardians of the Tall Stones. |
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| Cherryh, C. J.
"The Unshadowed Land" 1985: Sword and Sorceress 2, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley: New York: DAW (pp. 109-118)
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| Chiang, Ted
"Tower of Babylon" Nebula
Award for Best Short Story, 1990
1990: Omni
2002: Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang: New York: Tor (pp. 13-44) Babylonians build a tower that reaches to the sky. Egyptians, expert at quarrying out tombs, are employed to tunnel through the vault of heaven. |
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| Collins, Mabel
Idyll of the White Lotus: a story of the tragedy of the Soul 1907: Theosophical Publishing House 1919: New York: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co. 1974: Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House 1990: National Book Network An ancient Egyptian is initiated into the priesthood. Adapted into a play ("Sensa: a mystery play in three acts") by the author and Maud Hoffman. |
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| Collins, Max Alan
The Scorpion King 2002: New York: Berkeley/Boulevard An ancient king of Egypt tells the story of Mathayus, his immortal enemy. Novelization of the 2001 movie. |
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| Colson, Mrs. M.
Dugmar the Egyptian 1927: Boston: Christopher Publishing House Novel purportedly of a past life. |
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| Couperus, Louis
Antiek toerisme, roman uit Oud-Egypte [Dutch] 1911 1976: Agathon Bussum 1985: Amsterdam: C.J. Goossens 1989: Antwerp: Veen Utrecht
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| de Camp, L. Sprague
"Ka the Appalling" Gezun 1958: Fantastic Universe 1969: The Young Magicians, ed. Lin Carter: New York: Ballantine 1970: The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales, L. Sprague de Camp: New York: Pyramid
"The Stronger Spell" 1953: Fantasy Fiction (November) 1953: The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales, L. Sprague de Camp: New York: Twayne Publishers Priests from a quasi-Egypt argue with a Druid armed with a primitive firearm |
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| de Lubicz, Isha Schwaller
Her-Bak "Pois-Chiche" 1950: Cairo (2 vol.)
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| Douglass, Sara
Threshold 2003: New York: Tor A girl named Tirzah, a glass worker, is sold into the Egyptianesque land of Ashdod, where a pyramid that will allow the Magi to reach Infinity is being constructed. |
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| Doyle, Noreen
"Ankhtifi the Brave is dying." 2004: The First Heroes, ed. Harry Turtledove & Noreen Doyle: New York: Tor After the fall of the Old Kingdom, the Great Overlord of Nekhen is enlisted by the soul of a nine-times-dead king to defeat rebels in Thebes. "The Chapter of Bringing a Boat into Heaven" 1995: Realms of Fantasy 1.3 (February) (pp. 32-39) Having gained divine power by eating the sacred goose of Amen, a shipwright's talentless son struggles to master his father's craft. |
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| Lord Dunsany
"The Queen's Enemies" The story of Queen Nitocris. |
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| Dwyer, Winifred
The Golden Star 1959: London: Psychic Press The first third of the book is set during the Exodus. |
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| Edghill, Rosemary
"A Light in the Desert" 2002: Pharaoh Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren: New York: DAW (pp. 111-118) Akhenaten's steward relates the tale of his master, the Son of God, and the Twelve followers of A-ten. |
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| Edwards, Ron
The Egyptian 2002: Lightning Source 2002: Virtualbookworm.com With the help of an old warrior who is also a priest of Horus, a prince escapes from the underground prison to which he was condemned by a false prophecy. |
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| Flaubert, Gustave
La Tentation de Saint Antoine
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| Francis, Marianne
Egyptian Light No Date: London: Regency Press |
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| Fuller, Thomas E. & Strickland, Brad
"The God at Midnight" 1996: Realms of Fantasy 2.5 (June) (pp. 41-49) Alexander the Great. |
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| Gedge, Pauline
The Scroll of Saqqara 1990: Toronto: Viking Penguin 1990: Piatkus (as Mirage) (cover illus. John Rush) 1991: New York: HarperCollins (as Mirage) (cover illus. John Rush) Khaemwaset, one of the many sons of Rameses II, seeks the magical Scroll of Thoth. Inspired by the ancient tale. The Twice Born 2007: Penguin Canada A boy being trained as a scribe is killed, but revives while being prepared for the tomb. Shunned, he sees visions of others' deaths. |
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| Graham, Jo Black Ships NEW 3/09 2008: Orbit In this re-imagining of Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas falls in love not with Dido, Queen of Carthage, but Basetamon, an Egyptian princess. Hand of Isis NEW 3/09 2009: Orbit Cleopatra and her half-sisters Charmian and Iras swear to the goddess Isis to keep Egypt from Roman rule. | ||
| Grant, Joan Marshall
Eyes of Horus Far Memory 1942 Ra-ab, ruler of the Oryx Nome, decides he must rid Egypt of the chaos that now holds sway. The Lord of the Horizon Far Memory 1944 King Amenemhat marries the daughter of his deposed predecessor, and the new queen's Babylonian mother plots intrigue and endangers Prince Senusert. So Moses Was Born Far Memory 1952 1969: New York: Avon
Far Memory 1938 1974: Hazell Watson/Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult
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| Gray, Mary
The Temple of Amon Ra 1945: New York: Margent Press A woman is destined to give birth to the last Seer of Egypt before the Age of Darkness descends upon the world when the temples are closed. |
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| Gygax, Gary
DANGEROUS JOURNEYS MYTHUS 1 -- The Anubis Murders 1992: New York: Roc Setne Inhetep, an Egyptian magician, is called upon by the mages of Avillonia to solve a rash of murders. 2 -- The Samarkand Solution 1993: New York: Roc Setne tracks down those who would destroy the Triple Kingdom of Egypt. 3 -- Death in Delhi 1993: New York: Roc |
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Haggard, H. Rider
Moon of Israel 1918: New York: Longmans, Green Miriam leads the Exodus from Egypt. Morning Star 1910: London: Cassell 1950: Famous Fantastic Mysteries (February) 1978: New York: Zebra A princess and a female magician flee to Cush, where the princess's would-be lover has been exiled by a royal usurper. Queen of the Dawn 1925: New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. No Date(?): Collection of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition Vol. 4686 No Date: Gillette, New Jersey: Wildside Press An Egyptian princess, raised by a secret society beneath the Great Sphinx, is crowned Queen of Egypt although the oppressive Hyksos still rule the country from Tanis. The Wanderer's Necklace 1914: London: Cassell Olaf, who dreams of an earlier incarnation in Egypt, is caught up in the intrigues of the Byzantine court and finds half of a scarab necklace. Wisdom's Daughter: the life and love story of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed 1923: London: Hutchinson 1978: New York: Ballantine/Del Rey An Arabian princess is the incarnation of Isis at the time of the Persian conquest of Egypt. A prequel to She. The World's Desire 1891 1972: New York: Ballantine Books/Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series Helen of Troy and Odysseus in Egypt after the Trojan War: pharaoh's wife falls in love with Odysseus. |
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| Hauge, J. D.
Sanctuary on the Nile, River of Life 2000: Alpha Imagery After the destruction of their home, Tep and Nefra journey to discover the River of Life and learn the mysteries of the sphinx. |
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| Heliodorus of Emesa
Aethiopica (The Ethiopian Story) 3rd century CE 1534 1587 1804 1856 1888 1895: London: Athenian Society (ltd ed: 250) 1900 Conceived by her mother's sight of a statue, the daughter of the Ethiopian (Meroitic) king's wife is secretly sent to Egypt and then Greece to become a priestess of Apollo. She falls in love with a Thessalian nobleman, and together they have adventures and eventually arrive at Meroë, where even more danger await. |
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| Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
"Whatever Was Forgotten" 2002: Pharaoh Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren: New York: DAW (pp. 141-152) Horemheb reflects on his life, his death, and his afterlife. |
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| Hooker, Le Roy
Enoch the Philistine: A Traditional Romance of Philistia, Egypt and the Great Pyramid 1898: Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally |
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| Howard, Robert E.
Conan the Conqueror: The Hyborean Age 1950: New York: Gnome Press Conan is now king of Aquilonia but enemies external and internal threaten the peace. The land of Stygia is an Egypt-analog. |
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| Huff, Tanya
"Succession" 2002: Pharaoh Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren: New York: DAW (pp. 13-42) The chief wife of King Menes contends with a wizard's plot that would deny her husband's descendants the crowns of the newly-united Egypt. |
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| Isidore, Sarah
THE DAUGHTERS OF BAST 1 -- The Hidden Land 1997: New York: Avon Eos A Celtic girl is chosen by Bast to protect her people against the conquering followers of Sekhmet. 2 -- Shrine ofLight 2000: New York: Avon Eos (cover illus. Rowena) The Celtic worshippers of Bast must confront both the new religion of Christianity and Sekhmet, arch-rival of Bast. 3 -- The World Tree 2001: New York: Avon The Celtic healer Serona is caught between a clash between the old gods and Christianity. |
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| Jacq, Christian
L'Abre de vie Les Mystčres d'Osiris 1 2003: Paris: Editions Xo The Tree of Life 2005: Simon & Schuster. Osiris's sacred acacia tree at Abydos is dying, and, with the aid of a young magician, King Sesostris III confronts an traitor whose actions threaten all of Egypt. La bataille de Kadesh [French] Ramsčs 3 translations: English (Dorothy S. Blair): The Battle of Kadesh Ramses 3 1998 La Conspiration du mal [French: The Conspiracy of Evil] Les Mystčres d'Osiris 2 2003: Paris: Editions Xo Iker, the young magician trying to save the Tree of Life, proposes to build a pyramid at Dashur to strengthen the god Osiris. King Sesostris is threatened with assassination. La dame d'Abou Simbel [French] Ramsčs 4 translations: English (Dorothy S. Blair): The Lady of Abu Simbel Ramses 4 1998 Rameses II negotiates peace with the Hittites, displays his love for Nefertari by constructing the monuments at Abu Simbel, and confronts his long-lost childhood friend, Moses. Empire of Darkness Queen of Freedom 1 2002 2003: Pocket Barbarians from Asia conquer Egypt. La Femme Sage La Pierre de lumiere 2 2001: Xo Editions 2001 translations: English (Sue Dyson): The Wise Woman The Stone of Light 2 2000: New York: Pocket Le fils de la lumičre [French] Ramsčs 1 translations: English (Dorothy S. Blair): The Son of Light Ramses 1 1997 German (Annette Lallemand) Der Sohn des Lichts Ramses 1 1999: Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag The Flaming Sword Queen of Freedom 3 2003: Pocket Queen Ahhotep lays seige to the Hyksos city of Avaris. Nefer le silencieaux La Pierre de lumiere 1 translations: English (Sue Dyson): Nefer the Silent The Stone of Light 1 2000: London: Simon & Schuster 2000: New York: Pocket At the end of the reign of Ramses the Great, an artisan struggles to take his rightful place among the royal tomb-builders, while an ambitious officer covets the Stone of Light. This series is sequel to the "Ramses" series. Paneb l'Ardent La Pierre de lumiere 3 2001: Xo Editions 2001 translations: English (Sue Dyson): Paneb the Ardent The Stone of Light 3 2000: New York: Pocket Le pharaon noir [French] translations: English (Dorothy S. Blair): The Black Pharaoh 2000 Dutch (Ingrid Jap-Tjong): De zwarte farao 1999: Areopagus La Place de Verite La Pierre de lumiere 4 2001: Xo Editions 2001 translations: English (Sue Dyson): The Place of Truth The Stone of Light 4 2001: London: Simon & Schuster La Pyramide Assassinee [French] Le Juge d'Égypte 1 1993 La Reine Soleil [French] 1988 Sous l'acacia d'occident [French] Ramsčs 5 translations: English (by Dorothy S. Blair): Under the Western Acacia Ramses 5 1999 Le temple des millions d'années Ramsčs 2 translations (by Dorothy S. Blair): English: The Eternal Temple Ramses 2 1998 |
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| Jenkins, R. Wade
"O King, Live Forever!" or, The Last Days of Babylon 1911: London: Watt |
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| Jessup, J. W.
Chaim: the Collossus of Rhodes 2003: Infinity Publishing Alexandria is attacted by occult scholars in AD 641. The novel is narrated by Chaim Alhazred, a demon offspring of Lilith, the first wife of the biblical Adam. |
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| Jong, Erica
Sappho's Leap 2003: New York: W. W. Norton & Co. The young poetess's forced marriage takes her to, among other places, Egypt, as well as the Land of the Amazons and Hades. |
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| Kerruish, Jessie Douglas
"The Beemaster's Daughter" 1934: Babylonian Nights' Entertainment, Jessie Douglas Kerruish: London: Denis Archer Feuding villages. "The Hoplites from Hellas" 1934: Babylonian Nights' Entertainment, Jessie Douglas Kerruish: London: Denis Archer Two Greeks go AWOL from the Egyptian army. "Seneferu and Sebek" 1934: Babylonian Nights' Entertainment, Jessie Douglas Kerruish: London: Denis Archer A king is told that he will desert his throne for love. |
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| Kobylarz, Karen L.
"The Book of Thuti" 2007: Leading Edge 54 (November) (pp. 49-63) When Lady Sit-Thuti, magician's daughter and former Great Wife of Pharaoh, joins forces with two thieves, she finds robbing graves can be quite lucrative, if they can avoid the curses. "Cleopatra’s Needle" 2004: Paradox, 5 (Summer) (pp. 42-48) Upon arriving in Rome and hearing of her twin-brother’s death, Selene, daughter of Cleopatra, is drawn back into her mother’s world of Egyptian magic "Expecting Miracles" 2002: Fables Webzine (www.fables.org) (Spring) (pp. 1-10) Sit-Thuti travels to Gubal at the request of a fellow magician/scribe and must discover the cause of a boy’s mysterious malady. "Imperishable Stars" 2005: Leading Edge 49 (April) (pp. 128-148) Seshat, the Egyptian goddess of writing, and her father Thuti become drawn into the assassination of the Emperor Galba. |
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| Kotzwinkle, William
"Blues on the Nile" 1989: The Hot Jazz Trio, William Kotzwinkle: Boston: Houghton Mifflin (illus. Joe Servello) 1991: The Hot Jazz Trio, William Kotzwinkle: Ealing: Transworld Publishers (illus. Joe Servello) A dead king sails to the afterlife. |
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| Kratts, Aimee
"One in Ten Thousand" 2002: Sword and Sorceress 19, ed. Marizon Zimmer Bradley: New York: DAW (pp. 135-149) Those with a certain kind of soul can impart magic through their manufacture of papyrus scrolls. |
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| Lackey, Mercedes
DRAGON JOUSTERS 1 -- Joust 2003: New York: DAW In the Egyptianesque kingdom of Tia, a young serf from Atlan becomes a dragon boy to a Tian Jouster. 2 -- Alta 2004: New York: DAW |
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| Lanier, Thomas (= Williams,
Tennessee)
"The Vengeance of Nitocris" 1928: Weird Tales (August) 1980: Mummy! a Chrestomathy of "Crypt-ology," ed. Bill Pronzini: New York: Arbor House 1981: The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini: Arbor House 1986: Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini: Crown/Bonanza (pp. 382-396) 2001: Into the Mummy's Tomb, ed. John Richard Stephens: Berkley (as by Tennessee Williams) Based on the tale of this infamous Old Kingdom queen as reported by Herodotus. |
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| Lewis, C. S.
"After Ten Years" 1966: Of Other Worlds: essays and stories, ed. Walter Hooper: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1977: The Dark Towers and Other Stories, C. S. Lewis: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Fragment of an unfinished novel of the Trojan War, in which the gods have replaced Helen in Troy with an eternally-youthful double, while the real queen lives -- and ages -- safely in Egypt. |
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| Linton, Mrs. Linn (= Linton, Eliza
Lynn)
Azeth: The Egyptian 1847: London: Thomas Cautley Newby A story of initiation. |
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| Linville, Susan
"Light" 2001: Sword and Sorceress 18, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley: New York: DAW After a fatal accident, Nekhti is determined to restore her older sister to life again. |
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| Livingston, Marjorie
Muted Strings Karmic Destiny 2 1946: London: Andrew Dakers Reincarnated Atlanteans in ancient Egypt. Set during the reign of Rameses III. Second in a trilogy, the first book being Island Sonata, the third, Delphic Echo. |
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| MacArthur, Arthur
After the Afternoon 1941: New York: Appleton Century 1953: New York: Universal Publishing (as Aphrodite's Lover) A Greek faun is given immortality and the ability to take human form. Set in Greece and Egypt. |
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| MacLeod, Ian R.
"The Golden Keeper" 1997: Asimov's (October/November) 1998: Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture, ed. Jim turner: Collinsville, Illinois: Golden Gryphon Press Ancient secrets are found in desert goldmine by a Roman who has taken the job as overseer with hopes of repaying his father's debts. |
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| Mailer, Norman
Ancient Evenings 1983: Little, Brown & Co. 1984: Picador
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| Martin, George R. R.
"Path of the Dragon" 2000: Asimov's Science Fiction (December) To reclaim her rightful place, an exiled princess must travel to the Egyptianesque slaver-city of Astapor. Excerpted chapter of the novel A Storm of Swords. A Storm of Swords Song of Ice and Fire 3 2000: New York: Bantam 2003: New York: Bantam/Spectra To reclaim her rightful place, among many other travails, an exiled princess must travel to the Egyptianesque slaver-city of Astapor. |
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| Massie-Ferch, Kathleen M.
"Ancient Enchantresses of War" 1995: Ancient Enchantresses, ed. Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch, Martin H. Greenberg & Richard Giliam: New York: DAW Set in the 17th Dynasty. "The Cast of Card" 1997: New Altars, ed. Sandra Hutchinson & Dawn Albright: Angelus Press Hatshepsut. "Warrior of Ma-at" 1998: Warrior Princesses, ed. Elizabeth Ann Scarborough & Martin H. Greenberg: New York: DAW The story of Princess Nyt-akerti (Nitocris), who became pharaoh at the end of the Old Kingdom. "United Powers" 1996: Worlds of Fantasy & Horror 33 (Autumn) (pp. 51-56) A princess reluctantly becomes the wife of King Narmer, the brother she despises. |
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| McCay, Bill
"Alliance" 2002: Familiars, ed. Denise Little: New York: DAW A healer and Bast, her familiar, confront a disease that affects only young children, while a new cult has declared cats evil. "To See Beyond Darkness" 2002: Pharaoh Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren: New York: DAW (pp. 184-204) A cat travels to the feline-worshiping city of Per-Bastet and discovers a priest who sacrifices cats to the snake-demon Apep. |
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| Mitchison, Naomi
The Corn King and the Spring Queen The Hera Series 1931 A Scythian woman falls in love with the man whom she is supposed to destroy, and together they flee to decadent Egypt. |
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| Montross, Sanford A.
Dagger: A Love Story About A Great King And His Princess Xlibris The wife of a Babylonian general has telepathic powers and a psychic connection with King Nebuchadrezzar's wife Amytis, who is kidnapped. There are battles against the Egyptians. |
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| Moore, Thomas
The Epicurean 1827 An Athenian is duped by Egyptian priests of Isis. |
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| Morris, Gwendolyn R.
"The Nile" 2004: Nubian Passion: A Collection of Six Sensual Romance Short Stories, Gwendolyn R. Morris: iUniverse Set in ancient times, this is the first of six stories of interracial romance; following are tales set in the 17th, 19th, and 21st century, and a post-apacalyptic future. |
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| Mouhy, Charles de Fieux, Chevalier de
Lamekis, ou les Voyages extraordinaires d'un Egyptien dans la terre intérieure avec la découverte de l’îsle des Silphides [French:Lamekis, or the Extraordinary Voyages of an Egyptian into Inner Earth, with the Discovery of the Isle of the Sylphs] 1734: Paris: L. Dupuis 1737-1738: Paris: Chez Poilly 1787: Voyages imaginaires 1788: Amsterdam & Paris: Rue et Hôtel Serpente forthcoming (2004): Subterranean Worlds: a critical anthology, ed. Peter Fitting: Wesleyan University Press (excerpt)
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| Muhammad, Yolanda
Heket: The Goddess Who Birthed the Gods 2002: Eye of Ra Publishing The frog-headed goddess of magic goes to Egypt in predynastic times, looking for men and women who embody universal forces. Planned as the first of a trilogy. |
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| Muller, John (= Fanthorpe, Robert
Lionel)
The Eye of Karnak 1960: Badger Books |
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| Mundy, Talbot
Queen Cleopatra 1929: Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill 1929: London: Hutchinson & Co. 1962: New York: Ace 1978: Zebra |
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| Nye, Jody Lynn
"Purr Power" 2001: A Constellation of Cats, ed. Denis Little: New York: DAW General Horus-Semnet, whose Egyptian forces are outnumbered by the invading Persians, must defend the temple of Bast during a festival. "The Voice of Authority" 2002: Pharaoh Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren: New York: DAW (pp. 43-66) The unexpected death of Rameses III foists kingly power -- political and magical -- upon a prince who does not want it. |
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| Patton, Fiona
"Games of Fate" 2002: Pharaoh Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren: New York: DAW (pp. 231-257) A godling offers to change the fate of a condemned man in exchange for the man's name, and so begin the games. |
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| Pratchett, Terry
DISCWORLD Pyramids British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel In the Egyptianesque kingdom of Djelibeybi, funerals are big business, the king is responsible for the sunrise. Teppic, an apprentice assassin, is summoned home upon the death of his father. |
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| Preston, Peter
Hor Xlibris The story of Re's travels through the Underworld. |
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| Remy, Katharina
Am Horizont der Sonne [German: At the Horizon of the Sun] 2000 At the age of eighteen, Tutankhamun survives an assassination attempt and, influenced by an oracle, goes on a journey from Egypt -- and back again. |
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| Resnick, Laura
"The Spin Wizard" 2002: Pharaoh Fantastic, ed. Brittiany A. Koren & Martin H. Greenberg: New York: DAW (pp. 258-284) The deified Imhotep (architect of the Step Pyramid) and mortal Miriam come to the aid of Rameses II, whose reputation as king is being torn to shreds by the press because of the Battle of Kadesh. |
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| Rice, Anne
Blood and Gold Vampire Chronicles 2001: London: Chatto & Windus Marius, a Roman vampire, becomes entangled with Maharet, an Egyptian vampire queen who enslaves thousands with locks of her red hair. Prequel to The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned. |
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| Rosenbaum, Benjamin
"The Book of Jashar" 2003: Strange Horizons e-zine (March 17) The translation of an ancient Hebrew text written during the First Temple Period, telling the story of a vampire in the temple of Dagon, who fears the sun-god Ra, of whom he was once priest. He seeks to kill the young warrior David. |
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| Samphire, Patrick
"The Land of Reeds" 2006: Realms of Fantasy (February) A murdered man finds that the sun-god is no longer traveling the netherworld, and he is unable to contact his living family, which is threatened by his murderer. |
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| Schmidt, Dennis
TWILIGHT OF THE GODS 2 -- Groa's Other Eye 1986: New York: Ace Voden Wanderer seeks the other eye of Groa in Egypt, where he hears of the legend of Horus and acquires some companions for the rest of his quest in the lands of the Jotun. |
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| Schweitzer, Darrell
SEKENRE THE SORCERER "To Become a Sorcerer" 1991/1992: Weird Tales 303 (53.2) (Winter) (pp. 92-129 (illus. Stephen E. Fabian) Egyptianesque milieu. "Lord Abernaeven's Tale" 2004: Weird Tales (January/February) "The Sorcerer's Gift" 1996/97: Worlds of Fantasy & Horror 4 (Winter) (pp. 56-66) (illus. Stephen E. Fabian) |
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| Sherman, Josepha
"Setna and Se-Osiris (Two Magicians from Ancient Egypt)" 1998: Merlin’s Kin: Tales of the Heroic Magician, ed. Josepha Sherman: August House A retelling of this ancient Egyptian tale. |
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| Silke, James
FRANK FRAZETTA'S DEATH DEALER 2 -- Lords of Destruction 1989: New York: Tor The Nymph Queen of Pyram seeks the death of a maiden whose demise will secure divine powers. Setting is pre-Atlantis with Egyptianesque elements. |
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| Sizemore, Sharon
"That God Won't Hunt" 2002: Pharaoh Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren: New York: DAW (pp. 285-303) A scholarly and magically-talented young woman is brought to the city of Menfi to be the bride of the young King Pepi II. |
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| Smith, Clark Ashton
"Sadastor" 1930: Weird Tales 1942: Out of Space and Time, Clark Ashton Smith: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House In ancient Egypt, a demon comforts a lonely lamia with a tale of the death of a planet. |
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| Smith, Wilbur
River God 1994: St. Martin's Press The eunuch Taita recounts the tale of his mistress, young queen Lostris and her lover, the warrior Tanus. Warlock 2001: New York: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Taita, now a master of secret magics, returns to Egypt where the grandson of Taita's beloved Lostris is threatened by evil forces. Sequel to River God. |
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| Somtow, S. P.
The Shattered Horse 1986: New York: Tor Astyanax, son of prince Hector and heir to the destroyed throne of Troy, must renew the war of his father and kidnap Helen, aided by the Egyptian mage Memnon. |
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| Stover, Matthew Woodringt
Heart of Bronze 1998: Tor/Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus edition of Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon. Iron Dawn 1997: New York: Roc 1998: Heart of Bronze, Matthew Woodringt Stover: Roc/Science Fiction Book Club After the fall of Troy, a Pictish Amazon, an Athenian warrior, and an Egyptian sorcerer battle an evil necromancer in Tyre. Jericho Moon New York: Roc 1998: Heart of Bronze, Matthew Woodringt Stover: Roc/Science Fiction Book Club Sequel to Iron Dawn: the three heroes travel to Canaan to rescue the captive prince of a besieged city. |
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| Swann, Thomas Burnett
The Minikins of Yam 1976: New York: DAW (cover/illus. George Barr) While his loyal expedition leader Harkhuf is meeting a sexually-charged female Minikin in the land of Yam, the young pharaoh Pepy II is in grave danger. |
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| Tarr, Judith
"In the Name of the King" 1995: The Book of Kings, ed. Richard Gilliam & Martin H. Greenberg: New York: NAL/Roc There is power in names. King and Goddess 1997: New York: Tor/Forge 1998: New York: Tor The life of Hatshepsut. Lord of the Two Lands 1993: New York: Tor 1994: New York: Tor The invasion of Egypt by Alexander the Great. Pillar of Fire 1995: New York: Tor 1997: New York: Tor A Hittite slave, servant of princess Ankhesenpaaten, witnesses and participates in the events of the Amarna Period. Novelization of Ahmed Osman's theories, which identify Moses with Akhenaten. The Shepherd Kings 1999: New York: Tor The White Mare, incarnation of the horse goddess who has led her people, the Hyksos, into Egypt, chooses an Egyptian girl as chief priestess. Ahmose seeks the alliance of the Cretans and the goddess to reunite the Egyptian kingdoms. Throne of Isis 1994: New York: Tor/Forge 1995: New York: Tor The life of Cleopatra. Tides of Darkness Avaryan Rising 6 2002: New York: Tor An untrained mage and the former emperor pass through the Gates to Egypt (or an Egyptianesque world) as a dark void threatens to consume all the worlds. |
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| Tartasky, Lorraine
Lioness of the Sun 2003: Frederick, Maryland: PublishAmerica During the reign of Hatshepsut, Sekhmet is central to the struggle among gods, kings, and their subjects. |
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| Taylor, Keith
SATNI-KAMOSE "Daggers and a Serpent" 1999: Weird Tales 316/55.4 (Summer) (pp. 14-24) (illus. Stephen E. Fabian) A raid on a temple of Anubis by Libyan bandits enrages the high priest Satni-Kamose, who has a half-woman/half-snake lamia at his disposal. "Emissaries of Doom" 1999/2000: Weird Tales 318 (Winter) (pp. 16-24) Kamose, the court wizard of King Setekh-Nekht, must battle court intrigue and a Kushite magician. "Haunted Shadows" 2000: Weird Tales 321 (Fall) Against the advice of a grave-robber, a priest seeks the power of the cursed Scrolls of Thoth. "The Emerald Scarab" 2001: Weird Tales 323 (Spring)(pp. 18-27) (illus. George Barr) Archpriest Kamose confronts the theft of a heart scarab from the mummified body of King Setekh-Nekht. "Lamia" 2001/2002: Weird Tales 326 (Winter) (pp. 55-66) Mertseger the Lamia is left to her own devices during the funeral of King Setekh-Nekht. "What Are You When The Moon Shall Rise?" 2002: Weird Tales 328 (Summer) Knowing that a powerful magical attack will be made against him, Kamose risks his life to see the future. "Corpse's Wrath" 2006: Weird Tales (August/September) One of Kamose's agents, Si-hotep, goes after the man who stole an emerald scarab from a dead king and finds himself facing a vengeful corpse. |
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| Temme, Mark E.
Pharaoh's Scribe 2003: Stockton, California: Temme Haus Press Set during the Pyramid Age. |
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| Tierney, Richard L.
"The Ring of Set" Cthulhu/Simon Magus 1997: The Scroll of Thoth: Simon Magus and the Great Old Ones, Richard L. Tierney (ed. Robert M. Price): Oakland, California: Chaosium (cover illus. H. E. Fassl) "The Scroll of Thoth" Cthulhu/Simon Magus 1997: The Scroll of Thoth: Simon Magus and the Great Old Ones, Richard L. Tierney (ed. Robert M. Price): Oakland, California: Chaosium (cover illus. H. E. Fassl) "The Soul of Kephri" Cthulhu/Simon Magus 1997: The Scroll of Thoth: Simon Magus and the Great Old Ones, Richard L. Tierney (ed. Robert M. Price): Oakland, California: Chaosium (cover illus. H. E. Fassl) "The Treasure of Horemkhu" Cthulhu/Simon Magus 1997: The Scroll of Thoth: Simon Magus and the Great Old Ones, Richard L. Tierney (ed. Robert M. Price): Oakland, California: Chaosium (cover illus. H. E. Fassl) The Winds of Zarr Cthulhu Cycle 1975: Silver Scarab Press (limited ed., 1,000 copies) The Zarr visit Earth during the 19th Dynasty to free Yog-Sothoth. |
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| West, Paul
Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun 2002: New Directions Osiris narrates to Herotodus the rise and fall of the king who ordered the Great Pyramid to be built. |
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| Wolfe, Gene
Soldier of Sidon Latro forthcoming: New York: Tor Set in Persian Period Egypt. Sequel to Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete. |
| Abunuwara, Ehab S.
Days of the Messiah: Pharaoh Commonwealth Publishing 1997: Picasso Publications 2000: Xlibris An American journalist embarks on a race for Middle East peace that bridges histories ancient and modern and threatens her own sanity. |
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| Alcott, Louisa May
"Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse" 1869: The New World (January) 2001: Into the Mummy's Tomb, ed. John Richard Stephens: Berkley 2001: The Uncollected Works of Louisa May Alcott, Volume 1 - Short Stories: Ironweed American Classics: Ironweed Press By the light of a burning mummy, an explorer finds a gold box and three seeds, with which he returns home to his fiancée. |
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| Aldiss, Brian
"North of the Abyss" 1989: Fantasy & Science Fiction: October 1990: The 1990 Annual World's Best SF, ed. Donald A. Wollheim: New York: DAW 1998: A Tupolev Too Far, Brian Aldiss: New York: St. Martin's Press During his journey to the netherworld, a man reflects back on his life. |
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| Allen, Luman
Pharaoh's Treasure: an Egyptian romance 1891: Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co. 1901: Chicago: Donohue Search for a lost treasure. (Possibly involves a vampire?) |
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| Anonymous (= Berington,
Simon)
The Memoirs of Sigr. Gaudentio di Lucca: Taken from his Confession and Examination before the Fathers of the Inquisition at Bologna in Italy... Copied from the Original Manuscript kept in St. Mark's Library at Venice: With Critical Notes of the Learned Signor Rhedi, the Library-keeper of the said Library 1737: London: T. Cooper 1737: London: Pridden (as The Adventures of Signore Gaudentio di Lucca, Giving an Account of an Unknown Country in the Deserts of Africa) 1738: London: Dublin: George Faulkner (as The Memoirs...) 1748: London: W. Innys, R. Manby & H. S. Cox (as The Memoirs...) 1761: Edinburgh: Alex Donaldson (as The Adventures...) (also seen listed as The Memoirs...) 1765: Glasgow 1776: London: T. Pridden (as The Adventures...) 1786: London: Harrison and Co. (asThe Memoirs...) 1796: Norwich, Connecticut: John Tumbull (as The Life & Adventures of Sig. Gaudentio...) 1798: Dublin: J. and J. Carrick (as The Adventures...) 1799: Philadelphia: William Conover (as The Adventures...) 1803: London: "for the Proprietor" (as The Adventures...) 1821: Dublin: John Cumming No Date (c. 1827): London: Thomas Kelly 1973: New York: Garland Publishing (as The Memoirs...) 1997: Modern British Utopias 1700-1850, ed. Gregory Claeys: Pickering and Chatto (presumably in volume 1 of this 8-volume set)
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| Anonymous (= Rohmer, Sax)
"Sebek-Ra" 1910: Pause!, Anonymous: London: Greening & Co. To the surprise of his colleagues, a highly intellectual scientist marries a woman whose only claim to attraction is her beauty. |
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| Anonymous
"The Sphinx, an extravaganza etched in the manner of Callot" 1828: Blackwood 1971: Witches, Wraiters and Warlocks: supernatural tales of the American Renaissance, ed. Ronald Curran: Greenwich CT: Fawcett. A German student meets a mysterious woman in an "Egyptian room" and then elsewhere. |
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| Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden
Lieut. Gulliver Jones -- His Vacation 1905 1963: New York: Ace (as Gulliver of Mars) An American accidentally wishes himself to Mars, where he finds an Egyptianesque civilization. |
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| Arthur, Robert
"Footsteps Invisible" 1968: Monster Mix, ed. Robert Arthur: New York: Dell A blind newspaper reporter is told by an explorer that he (the explorer) is being pursued by an invisible Egyptian demon. |
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| Bagnall, Lilian
"In the Tombs of the Kings" 1910: The London Magazine 25 (December) (pp. 439-455) (illus. A. C. Michael) An archaeologist and a woman experience strange events in Egypt: are they, or are they not, the reincarnations of Akhenaten and Nefertiti? |
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| Ball, Clifford
"The Goddess Awakes" 1938: Weird Tales (February) 1976: Realms of Wizardry, ed. Lin Carter: New York: Doubleday (pp. 171-206) The cat-goddess Bast; also vampirism? |
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| Ball, Margaret
"Fun with Hieroglyphics" 2000: The Chick is in the Mail, ed. Esther Friesner: New York: Baen A retired swordswoman wrestles with her new career as a tech writer and her daughter's school project on ancient Egypt. |
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| Bantock, Nick
The Gryphon, In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Is Rediscovered 2001: Raincost A young archaeologist in Egypt is employed to locate the missing Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem, and must confront strange powers. |
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| Baring-Gould, Sabine
"Mustapha" 1904: A Book of Ghosts, Sabine Baring-Gould: London: Methuen 1991: Gaslit Nightmares 2, ed. Hugh Lamb: Futura 1992: Horror for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby: London: Michael O'Mara 1993: Mistletoe and Mayhem: horrific tales for the holidays, ed. Richard Dalby: London: Headline A man is tricked into damnation. |
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| Bates, Andrew
YEAR OF THE SCARAB (The Mummy: Resurrection role-playing game milieu) 1 -- Heralds of the Storm 2001: Clarkston, Georgia: White Wolf Worshipers in the Temple of Akhenaten in Chicago are up to no good. 2 -- Lay Down with Lions Clarkston, Georgia: White Wolf A vampire comes to Chicago and witlessly helps the evil mummies. 3 -- Land of the Dead Clarkston, Georgia: White Wolf The Heart of Osiris has been stolen, so the race is on to Egypt to discover the secret of its power. |
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| Bean, David
Amun's Den 2002: Double Dragon eBooks At Giza, two men encounter a prophetess named Ankh. |
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| Bear, Greg
Eon 1986: London: Gollancz In one of the alternate-realities to which an asteroid ship from the future provides access, Ptolemaic Egypt did not fall to Rome. Its sequels are Eternity and Legacy. Slant 1997: New York: Tor In a post-industrial future, immortal humans are referred to as "pharaohs." |
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| Beck, L. Adams
The Way of Stars: a romance of reincarnation 1925: New York: Dodd, Mead A Russian and a reincarnated Predynastic Atlantean princess orchestrate a conquest of India after the First World War. |
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| Beckford, William
"The Story of the Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah" 1912: The Episodes of Vathek, William Beckford: Stephen Swift: London The ruler of Egypt tries to resurrect the lost wisdom of the pharaohs, and his daughter has an encounter with the jinni of the Great Pyramid. Unfinished story. Original in French (translation by Sir Frank T. Marzials). |
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| Benoit, Pierre
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| Benson, E. F.
"The Ape" 1920: The Countess of Lowndes Square and Other Stories, E. F. Benson: London: Cassell An ancient amulet gives a man control over primates. "Bagnell Terrace" 1928: Spook Stories, E. F. Benson: London: Hutchinson A man acquires a house connected with ancient Egyptian magic. The Image in the Sand 1905: London: Heinemann An Englishman attempts to obtain a woman's affections by means of a conjured Egyptian soul. "Monkeys" 1934: More Spook Stories, E. F. Benson: London: Hutchinson 1971: The Mummy Walks Among Us, ed. Vic Ghidalia: American Education Publishers (pp. 109-130) 1980: Mummy! a Chrestomathy of "Crypt-ology," ed. Bill Pronzini: New York: Arbor House 1981: The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini: Arbor House 1986: Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini: Crown/Bonanza (pp. 356-373) 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (pp. 195-210) 1990: Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Ballantine (pp. 47-61) The Mummies Return: The Classic Stories that Inspired the Original Mummy Movies, ed. Jean Marie Stine: Page-Turner E-Books An English surgeon encounters the mummy of a princess who in life had survived a back operation. |
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| Billings, Maris Herrington
An Egyptian Love Spell The Word 1914: Central Publishing Co. 1977: R.I.P.: Five Stories of the Supernatural, ed. R. Reginald & Douglas Menville A story of reincarnation and Karma. |
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| Bisson, Terry
"There Are No Dead" 1995: Omni (January) (illus. Daniel Adel) 2000: In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories, Terry Bisson: New York: Tor Three boys grow up together, grow apart in adulthood. Their story begins along a muddy stream called the Tibetan Nile. |
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| Black, Campbell
Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones 1981: New York: Ballantine On the eve of World War II, an adventurous archaeologist named Indiana Jones is recruited by the United States government to locate the Ark of the Covenant in Egypt before the Nazis do. Novelization of the 1981 Steven Spielberg movie. |
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| Blackwood, Algernon
"Descent into Egypt" 1914: Incredible Adventures, Algernon Blackwood: London: Macmillan 1973: The Best Supernatural Tales of Algernon Blackwood, Algernon Blackwood (intro. Felix Morrow): New York: Causeway Books Two men traveling in Egypt meet a third who knows a sacred spell that would allow them to travel back in time to ancient Egypt. "An Egyptian Hornet" 1959: BR-R-R-! Ten Tales to Chill You to The Bone, ed. Groff Conklin: New York: Avon It can deliver something worse than death. "The Nemesis of Fire" John Silence 1908: John Silence: Physician Extraordinary, Algernon Blackwood: London: Eveleigh Nash 1974: Ancient Sorceries and Other Stories, Algernon Blackwood: London: Penguin Extraordinary heat troubles a British household; has it any connection with the Egyptian mummy in the house? "The Sand" 1912: Pan's Garden: a volume of nature stories, Algernon Blackwood: London: Macmillan A man on vacation in Egypt witnesses a woman magician summon a powerful being. "The Water" 1935: My Grimmest Nightmare, ed. Lady Cynthia Asquith: London: Allen & Unwin A man is warned by a fortune-teller that he would drown, which he believes to be impossible in the Sahara. The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath 1916: New York: E. P. Dutton 1917: London: Cassell In ancient Egypt, a woman commits suicide in the Nile after a slave in love with her is murdered by her husband; in the 20th century, a man in love with a married woman dreams of a wave and Egyptian spices. "The Wings of Horus" 1917: Day and Night Stories, Algernon Blackwood: London: Cassell 1973: The Best Supernatural Tales of Algernon Blackwood, Algernon Blackwood (intro. Felix Morrow): New York: Causeway Books A Russian worships and then curses Horus, with consequences. |
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| Bloch, Robert
"The Brood of Bubastis" Cthulhu Cycle 1993: Mysteries of the Worm, Robert Bloch: Oakland, California: Chaosium "The Eyes of the Mummy" Cthulhu Cycle 1938: Weird Tales (April) 1945: The Opener of the Way, Robert Bloch: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House 1971: The Mummy Walks Among Us, ed. Vic Ghidalia: American Education Publishers (pp. 67-87) 1980: Mummy! a Chrestomathy of "Crypt-ology," ed. Bill Pronzini: New York: Arbor House 1981: The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini: Arbor House 1986: Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini: Crown/Bonanza (pp. 410-428) 1990: Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Ballantine (pp. 206-219) Two men seek and find the mummy of an evil priest of the crocodile-god Sobek. Sequel to "The Secret of Sebek." "The Faceless God" Cthulhu Cycle 1936: Weird Tales 1945: The Opener of the Way, Robert Bloch: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House 1993: Mysteries of the Worm, Robert Bloch: Oakland, California: Chaosium A wicked doctor goes to Egypt to investigate rumor of a statue. "Fane of the Black Pharaoh" Cthulhu Cycle 1937: Weird Tales (December) 1992: Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, ed. Robert M. Price: Fedogan & Bremer 1993: Mysteries of the Worm, Robert Bloch: Oakland, California: Chaosium 1997: Nyarlathotep Cycle: Stories about the God of a Thousand Forms, ed. Robert M. Price: Call of Cthulhu Fiction: Chaosium 2002: Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, ed. Robert M. Price: New York: Del Rey "The Opener of the Way" Cthulhu Cycle 1936: Weird Tales 1945: The Opener of the Way, Robert Bloch: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House A statue of the jackal-god Anubis guards an intact tomb. "The Secret of Sebek" Cthulhu Cycle 1938: Weird Tales 1945: The Opener of the Way, Robert Bloch: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House 1972: Wizards and Warlocks, ed. Vic Ghidalia: New York: Manor Books 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (pp. 222-238) 1993: Mysteries of the Worm, Robert Bloch: Oakland, California: Chaosium At Mardi Gras in New Orleans, a man is shown the mummy of a priest of Sebek. "The Eyes of the Mummy" is its sequel. |
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| Blount, S. Huston "One Avatar, Hold the Anchovies" 2008: AEon 13 The sun god Ra wants a priest and orders a pizza. |
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| Boothby, Guy
Pharos, the Egyptian 1898: Windsor Magazine (serialized in 6 parts, June-November) 1899: London: Ward Lock (illus. John H. Bacon) 2002: Wildside Press A man who has inherited a mummy from the time of the Exodus encounters a wicked old Egyptian who uses a beautiful Hungarian girl as a medium. "A Professor of Egyptology" 1894: The Graphic (December 10) 1904: The Lady of the Island, Guy Boothby: London: John Long 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (pp. 95-113) An Egyptologist must be forgiven for a crime he committed during a past life in Egypt. |
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| Boughton, C.
The Golden Serpent eNovel A series of incarnation that begins in ancient Egypt, two lovers must contend with their enemies. |
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| Boyd, Donna
The Alchemist 2001: New York: Ballantine A man confesses having committed a particularly dreadful murder, and also to having lived in ancient Egypt, where he and two companions became powerful magicians in the House of Ra. |
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| Bradbury, Ray
"West of October" 1988: The Toynbee Convector, Ray Bradbury 2001: From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury The souls of four men are made to inhabit the spouse of A Thousand Times Great Grandmčre, who herself is a mummy and noneother than Nefertiti's mother. |
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| Brand, Larry
Birth Pyre 1980 An archaeologist excavating a 6,000-year-old pyramid in Israel unleashes evil forces older than the pharaohs. |
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| Brusso, Charlene
"Absinthe Eyes" 1999: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine 42 (Winter) The death of a colleague leads an old scholar to confront an old debt incurred during an illegal excavation. |
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| Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
A Strange Story 1862 A spirit makes a sleepwalking English magician summon supernatural evil by means of an Egyptian wand. |
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| Burke, John
"The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" The Hammer Horror Omnibus, John Burke An Egyptian mummy terrorizes London in 1912. Novelization of the film of the same name. |
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| Burroughs, William S.
The Place of Dead Roads Western Lands 1 1983: New York: Holt Rinehart The Western Lands Western Lands 3 1987: New York: Viking 1988: New York: Penguin 1988: London: Picador Follows several characters, including Neferti and Joe the Dead, on the road to immortality. Sequel to Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads. |
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| Cabell, James Branch
Jurgen: a comedy of justice 1919: New York: Robert M. McBride 1921: London: John Lane/Bodley Head Ltd. (limited ed. 3,000 copies) (illus. Frank C. Pape) 1927: New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1934: New York: The Modern Library 1946: New York: Penguin 1949: London, Golden Cockerel Press (limited ed. 500 copies) 1967: New York: Avon 1971: London: Tandem 1976: Westport, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club (limited ed. 2,000 copies) 1977: New York: Dover 1984: London: Unwin 1984: (Australia): Unicorn No Date: New York: Xanadu Library/Crown |
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| Caldecott, Moyra
The Ghost of Akhenaten Mushroom Publishing eBook A group of people who feel connected to the Amarna period by reincarnation, etc., attempt to prove that Akhenaten was murdered by the priests of Amun. Follow-up to the historical Amun Trilogy. |
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| Carr, Robert Spenser
"Spiderbite" 1926: Weird Tales 1947: The Sleeping and the Dead: thirty uncanny tales, ed. August Derleth: New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy Spiders whose bite can revive the dead. |
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| Case, David
The Third Grave 1981: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House An archaeological expedition faces ancient curses. |
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| Caselberg, Jay
"Cairene Dawn" 2004: Powers of Detection, ed. Dana Stabenow: New York: Ace |
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| Chadbourn, Mark
The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke 2002: London: PS Publishing A nineteenth-century painting inspires a gifted young man to follow the footsteps of an artist who, sent on a grand tour of Europe and the Middle East, became parricidally mad with demons and Egyptian gods. Inspired by the life of Richard Dadd (1817-1886). |
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| Champsaur, Felicien
La Pharaonne 1929: Paris: Ferenczi et Fils (dj illus Jaquelux; int. illus. Lorenzi) An aristocratic Englishwoman believes that she has had a former life during the reign of Tutankhamen. |
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| Channing, Mark
Nine Lives 1937: London: Harrap Set in northern India but features an Egyptian cat goddess. |
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| Cheiro (= Count Louis Hamong = Count Leigh de Hamong = William John Warner) A Study of Destiny 1898: London; Saxon & Co. 1898: New York: F. T. Neely (as The Hand of Fate) 1969: Great Untold Stories of Fantasy and Horror; ed. Alden H. Moskowitz & Sam Norton: New York: Pyramid 2006: Tampla, Florida: University of Tampa Press (annotated by Sean Donnelly) A curse. Set in Egypt and India. |
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| Cherryh, C. J.
Legions of Hell Heroes in Hell 1987: New York: Baen Caesar, Kleopatra, Mark Antony, Napoleon, Rameses II, and Hatshepsut, among others, begin to scheme when a partly-amnesiac Brutus arrives in Hell. |
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| Coelho, Paulo
O alquimista [Portuguese] Editora Rocco Editora Pergaminho
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| Collins, Max Allen
The Mummy 1999: Edbury Press Based on the 1999 film. |
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| Colonna, Francesco
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili [Italian] 1499: Venice: Aldus Manutius 1964: Rome: Editrice Antenore (2 vols) 1999: Milan: Adelph (2 vols)
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| Cooper, Diana
The Web of Light 2004: London: Hodder Mobius/Hodder & Stoughton In South Africa, a white lion is born to a divine mission to bring peace to the world. Involves the pyramids, sphinx, Zimbabwe, Atlantis, Bermuda Triangle, and dolphins. |
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| Corelli, Marie
The Secret Power 1921: London: Methuen 1921: New York: Doubleday Ziska: the problem of a wicked soul 1897: Bristol: Arrowsmith 1897: London: Simpkin, Marshall 1897: Grosset & Dunlap no date: Adelaide, New Zealand: Gordon & Gotch 1960: London: Methuen & Co. 1979: Magnum 1989: London: Methuen Amherst Press In Cairo, two men fall in love with a society woman who is the reincarnation of dancing girl who lived 4,000 years ago. |
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| Côté, Denis
L'Empire couleur de sang [French: The Empire the Color of Blood] 2002: Hurtubise The Egyptian lionness-goddess of war and disease, Sekhmet, founds an empire in Canada, opposed by Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, and others. |
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| Crater, Theresa
Under the Stone Paw 2006: Hampton Roads A young attorney inherits an antique necklace, possession of which leads her into a mystery that stretches back to before the days of Jesus and Mary Magdelene. |
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| Cron, Thomas W.
"The Man Who Saw the Omniverse" 2000: Nova Science Fiction Magazine 3 A man and woman possessing extraordinary powers see three alternate histories. In one, the Aten is still worshiped in Egypt. |
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| Crowley, John
AEGYPT 1 -- AEgypt
2007: New York: Overlook Press (as The Solitudes) 2 -- Love and Sleep 1994: New York: Bantam Spectra 3 -- Daemonomania 200: New York: Bantam Spectra2000 3 -- Endless Things 2007: Small Beer Press "Antiquities" 1979: Whispers, ed. Schiff, Stuart David: New York: Jove Books 2004: Novelties and Souvenirs, John Crowley: New York: Perennial/HarperCollins |
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| Cullum, Ridgwell
The Vampire of N'Gobi 1935: London: Chapman & Hall 1936: Philadelphia: Lippincott Egyptians persist in the depths of Africa. Inspired by H. Rider Haggard's She. |
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| Dahl, Michael
The Pharaoh's Son Astabora Publishing Co. A man with a troubled childhood grows up to a life of crime, lands in a mental institution. Involves, somehow, Akhenaten, Genesis, and the historical chronology developed by David Rohl. |
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| Davies, David Stuart
The Scroll of the Dead Sherlock Holmes Adventure 1998: Ashcroft, British Columbia: Canada Calabash Press(cover illus. Chris Senior) Holmes must face Sebastian Melmoth, who is determined to possess an Egyptian papyrus containing the secrets of immortality. |
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| de Camp, L. Sprague
Solomon's Stone 1942: Unknown Worlds (June) 1957: Avalon Books A fake seance conjures up a real demon, who sends an accountant into the astral plane. There, transformed into a cavalier, he meets, among others, an Egyptian princess. |
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| Dent, Lester & Bogart, William G.
"The Awful Dynasty" Doc Savage 1940: Doc Savage 16.3 (November) Doc Savage Omnibus 6, Kenneth Robeson: New York: Bantam On a transatlantic voyage, wealthy financiers are falling to a curse brought about by an ancient scarab. |
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| Derleth, August
"Balu" 1949: Weird Tales 1963: Mr. George and Other Odd Persons, August Derleth: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House An Egyptian black cat. |
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| Derleth, August & Schorer, Mark
"The Vengeance of Aď" 1939: Strange Stories 1966: Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People, August Derleth & Mark Schorer: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House 1971: The Mummy Walks Among Us, ed. Vic Ghidalia: American Education Publishers (pp. 89-107) A Chaldean moon-goddess guards a temple in the Egyptian desert. |
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| Doherty, Robert
Nosferatu Area 51 #8 2003 The deathless creatures, led by Nosferatu, that feed on the chaos of war originated in an Egyptian tomb. The Sphinx Area 51 2000: Dell A scientist and special forces agent must prevent a global catastrophe hinging on the Ark of the Covenent, hidden deep within the Great Sphinx. |
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| Doke, Joseph J.
The Queen of the Secret City 1916: London: Hodder & Stoughton Prequel to The Secret City. The Secret City: A Romance of the Karroo 1913: London: Hodder and Stoughton An ancient Egyptian city is found in the Kalahari. |
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| Doolittle, Hilda
"Kora and Ka" 1934 An Egyptian spirit seems to possess a man. |
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| Dorn, Michael
(& Hemingway, Hilary &
Lindsay, Jeffry P. [= Freundlich, Jeffrey])
Time Blender 1997: New York: HarperPrism An archaeologist's airplane lands on the Island of No-Return, where samurai warriors battle Egyptian gods. |
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| Douglas, Theo (= Everett, H. D.)
Iras, A Mystery 1896: Edinburgh: Blackwood An Egyptologist falls in love with the reanimated mummy of a cursed Egyptian princess. |
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| Doyle, Arthur Conan
"Lot No. 249" 1892: Harper's New Monthly Magazine (October) 1894: Round the Red Lamp (chapter 12), Arthur Conan Doyle: London: Methuen The Great Keinplatz Experiment, Arthur Conan Doyle: New York: George H. Doran 1980: Mummy!:a Chrestomathy of "Crypt-ology," ed. Bill Pronzini: New York: Arbor House 1981: The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini: Arbor House 1982: Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Fantasy of the 19th Century, ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg: pp. 217-250 1986: Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini: Crown/Bonanza (pp. 283-300) 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (pp. 47-80) 1990: Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Ballantine (pp. 9-39) 2001: Into the Mummy's Tomb, ed. John Richard Stephens: Berkley The Mummies Return: The Classic Stories that Inspired the Original Mummy Movies, ed. Jean Marie Stine: Page-Turner E-Books The presence of a mummy disrupts life for three students at Oxford University. "The Ring of Thoth" 1890: Cornhill Magazine (January) 1890: Eclectic Magazine (March) 1894: The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales, Arthur Conan Doyle: 1979: The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle, ed. E. F. Bleiler: New York: Dover 1988: Movie Monsters, ed. Peter Haining: Severn House 1988: The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Foulsham 1992: The Face of Tutankhamun, ed. Christopher Frayling: Faber and Faber Visiting the Louvre, an Englishman learns a tale of love and immortality. |
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| Doyle, Noreen
"The Chapter of the Hawk of Gold" 1997: Realms of Fantasy 3.6 (August) (pp. 30-33) (illus. Janet Aulisio) 2008: Otherworldly Maine, ed. Noreen Doyle: Camden, ME: Down East Books An unhappy teenage girl encounters a mummified hawk in a small-town Maine museum. THE ANTIQUE LANDS "The Rope" 2007: Realms of Fantasy (April) (illus. Paul Lee) 2008: Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2008 Edition, ed. Rich Horton: Holicong, PA: Prime In an Egyptianesque land, a young woman joins up with a rope-charmer. |
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| Dreadstone, Carl (= Campbell, Ramsay)
The Mummy 1977: Berkeley 1978: The Mummy and The Werewolf of London, Carl Dreadstone: London: Allan Wingate Based on the classic 1932 movie, in which archaeologists disturb the mummy of an Egyptian priest condemned for trying to bring his dead lover back to life. |
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| Drummond, John Peter (= house
pseudonym)
"Blood Priestess of Vig N'Ga" Ki-Gor, Lord of the Jungle 1951-52: Jungle Stories (Winter) Egyptian culture persists elsewhere in Africa. "The Golden Beasts of Zuli'maen" Ki-Gor, Lord of the Jungle 1945: Jungle Stories (Fall) Egyptian culture persists elsewhere in Africa. |
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| Duane, Diane
The Book of Night with Moon Oath of Wizardry / Cat Wizards 1997: New York: Time Warner 1997: London: New English Librar Three wizard cats, and their wizard human companions, must repair an interdimensional gate in New York City; involves, among other things, a magic spell written in the cat-language on an ancient Egyptian papyrus. |
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| DuBois, Brendan
"A Lion Let Loose upon the World" 2002: Pharaoh Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren: New York: DAW (pp. 205-230) A professor has brought to New Hampshire a cursed statue of Sekhmet and the mummy of the first king of Egypt, with dire consequences to three boys. |
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| Ducornet, Rikki
The Jade Cabinet Tetrology of Elements 4 1993: Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press A mute woman is traded by her father for a piece of jade. At least part of the novel takes place in nineteenth-century Egypt. |
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| Duits, Charles
Nefer [French] 1978 1997: Denoël/Présence du Futur (2 volumes) On a world with two moons, a priest in the Temple of Love becomes involved with the kidnapping of a princess. Ptah Hotep [French] 1971: Denoël 1980: Denoël/Présence du Futur (2 vols.: as Ptah Otep) 1999: Denoël/Présence du Futur In the distant future of an Earth where Christianity never emerged, a coup forces Ptah Hotep, a wealthy young prince, into exile. |
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| Dumas, Lawrence J.
Witch Coomb Xlibris A witch performs sex, rites of Set, and worse in a Vermont town. |
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| Lord Dunsany
"By Command of Pharaoh" 1948: The Fourth Book of Jorkens, Lord Dunsany: London: Jarrolds Jorkens finds a royal soul-boat interred beside a pyramid, and the dead king is not pleased. "A Daughter of Ramases" 1931: The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens, Lord Dunsany: London: Jarrolds The spirit of a princess explains why her mummy case is filled only with rags. "The Pale-Green Image" 1948: The Fourth Book of Jorkens, Lord Dunsany: London: Jarrolds There is an object which you are troubled to own, but if you part with it the next must attempt to murder you. "The Secret of the Sphinx" 1948: The Fourth Book of Jorkens, Lord Dunsany: London: Jarrolds Every hundred years the soul of the Egyptian sphinx possesses a living creature. |
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| Easterman, Daniel
The Name of the Beast 1992 The year is 1999 and, as the 20th century draws to a close, the discovery of a mummy wearing a Rolex brings terror. |
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| Eadie, Arlton
"The Nameless Mummy" 1932: Weird Tales (May) 1971: The Mummy Walks Among Us, ed. Vic Ghidalia: American Education Publishers (pp. 131-151) The Mummies Return: The Classic Stories that Inspired the Original Mummy Movies, ed. Jean Marie Stine: Page-Turner E-Books A curator encounters a Roman-Period mummy and a beautiful woman who can read hieroglyphs. |
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| Eggleston, Katharine & Richards, F. H.
Red O'Rourke's Riches 1912: Cavalier Weekly (serialized: 2 March - 20 April 1912) (as by "Katharine Eggleston & F. H. Richards") 1937: London: Wright & Brown (as by "Katharine Eggleston") No Date (c. 1940): London: Streamline (as by "Katharine Eggleston") Descendants of the ancient Egyptians survive in the high Arizona desert. |
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| Ehly, Ehren M. (= Ehly, Moreen)
Obelisk 1988: New York: Leisure Mummy's curse. |
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| Eller, Steve
"Walking in Memphis" 1998: More Monsters from Memphis, ed. Beecher Smith: Palo Alto, CA: Zapizdat Productions (pp. 237-249) A questing demonic killer is on the loose in the University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology. |
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| Elliot, Bruce
"So Sweet is Magic" 1956: Fantastic Fiction 1972: Wizards and Warlocks, ed. Vic Ghidalia: New York: Manor Books A stage magician travels to ancient Egypt, where he learns how to counter the evil of Count St. Germain. |
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| Ellison, Harlan
"Chatting with Anubis" Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Story Deathrealm Award Best Short Fiction 1995: Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, Harlan Ellison 1995: Lore (vol. 1, summer) 1996: Dante’s Disciples, ed. Peter Crowther & Edward E. Kramer: Clarkston, Georgia: White Wolf 1996: Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction(July) 1997: Slippage, Harlan Ellison: Mark V. Ziesing Books (limited edition) 1997: Slippage, Harlan Ellison: New York: Houghton Mifflin A conversation with the guardian of the netherworld, whom two archaeologists encounter at the Oasis at Siwa. |
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| Farnol, Jeffrey
"Black Coffee" 1929: The Shadow and Other Stories, Jeffrey Farnol: London: Sampson Low, Marston 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (p. 137-149) A professor made jittery from too much caffeine is asked to take care of a mummy. |
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| Farren, Mick
Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife 1999: New York: St. Martin's Press The amnesiac rock star wanders through hell and encounters, among others, megalomaniac Egyptian gods. |
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| Faust, Minister
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad 2004: New York: Ace A dishwasher and a video-store clerk must help the House of the Jackal locate an ancient urn. |
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| Fiske, Tarleton (= Bloch, Robert)
"Beetles" 1938: Weird Tales (December) 1945: Sea Kissed, Robert Bloch: London: Utopian 1990: Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Ballantine (pp. 119-130) A formerly affable archaeologist returns from the Egyptian Sudan a changed man. |
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The Prince of Gravas: a story of the past 1898: Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs 1978: Ayer Publishing Co. Tales of an ancient civilization obtained through "personality exchange" with a giant mummy. |
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| Flynn, Michael F.
"Flame of Iron" 1999: Analog (March) Tales of long-running feuds are exchanged in a barroom, including one by a pair of Egyptologists about a quarrel between ka and ba. |
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| Fortune, Dion (= Firth, Violet M.)
"The Man who Sought" Dr. Taverner 1926: The Secrets of Dr. Taverner, Dion Fortune: London: Noel Douglas Taverner brings two ancient Egyptian souls together in marriage. Moon Magic, being the memoirs of a mistress of that Art 1956: London: The Aquarian Press 1976: London: Star Books 1978: York Beach, Maine: Red Wheel/Samuel Weiser Lilith Le Fay Morgan, a Priestess of the Moon, preys upon a doctor who has memories of a former incarnation as an ancient Egyptian priest. Sequel to The Sea Priestess. |
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Forstchen, William R. & Segriff, Larry
The Four Magics 1996: New York: Baen On a distant asteroid, Egyptians, Romans, Vikings, and the Knights Templar battle each other and aliens. |
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| Foster, Alan Dean
"Basted" 2002: Pharaoh Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren: New York: DAW Ali, who longs to be a tour guide and escape poverty, stumbles across an Old Kingdom tomb containing statues of the cat-goddess Bastet and a big cat mummy. |
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| Friesner, Esther
Here Be Demons 1988: New York: Ace In Egypt, American archaeology students discover a Roman tomb. Several junion demons, thrown out of Hell for slacking off, try to regain their evil names by corrupting them, which will be harder than they think. |
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| Gagliani, William D.
"The Great Belzoni and the Gait of Anubis" forthcoming: Tooth and Claw 2, ed. Garrett Peck & J. F. Gonzalez: Lone Wolf |
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| Gaiman, Neil
American Gods Hugo Award for Best Novel, 2001 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel, 2002 2001: New York: Morrow An ex-con finds himself dealing with people who may be the ancient gods, including from the Egyptian pantheon, who have immigrated to America. |
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| Gautier, Theophile
"Le Pied de Momie" [French] 1863
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| Gentle, Mary Ilario 2007: New York: Eos In a fifteenth century world in which Egyptian culture hangs on in Constantinople, Ilario, a hermaphrodite with painterly ambitions, becomes the slave of a castrato named Rekhmire' and must escape the murderous plots of his/her mother. |
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| Gerstner-Miller, Gail
"Down by the Nile" Wild Cards 1988: Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad, ed. George R.R. Martin: New York: Bantam |
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| Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (= Mitchell,
James Leslie)
The Lost Trumpet 1932: Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill New York: Columbia University Press Polygon Paperback A search in the Egyptian desert yields the trumpet that brought down the walls of Jericho. |
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| Gillentine, Julie
Messengers The secrets of Atlantis lie buried at Giza. |
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| Glossop, Reginald
The Egyptian Venus: a romance No Date (1946): London: Regency Press A beautiful, enchanting woman, in a former life, an ancient Egyptian. |
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| Goldstein, Lisa
Dark Cities Underground 1999: New York: Tor Osiris, Isis & other gods in and beneath San Francisco. |
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| Goldstein, William
Dr. Phibes Rises Again! 1972: Award Books A man tries to find the River of Life in Egypt to resurrect his dead wife. Novelization of the Vincent Price film. |
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| Gorman, Ed
"Masque" 1990: Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Ballantine (pp. 4-8) 1993: Dark Whispers, Ed Gorman: Mystery Scene Press While watching cartoons in a hospital, a bandaged man claims to be Egyptian kings. |
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| Goulart, Ron
The Curse of the Obelisk 1987: New York: Avon Dead archaeologists, a walking mummy, a vampire, occult kidnappers. "The Secret of the Scarab" 2005: Fantasy & Science Fiction (April) A supernatural investigator examines the murder of several Egyptologists in late Victorian London. |
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| Graham, Winifred
The Gods of the Dead 1912: London: William Rider A girl has acquired certain attributes above her station because her father burned an Egyptian mummy as she was being born. |
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| Grant, Charles
[NEWS
9 March 2004]
The Long Night of the Grave 1986: Donald M. Grant 1988: New York: Berkley Mummies, Anubis, and eternal life. |
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| Grant, Kenneth
"The Other Child" 2003: The Other Child, Kenneth Grant: Starfire A scholar becomes entangled in a struggle between two brothers, one the Child of Light, the other the Child of Darkness. "The Stellar Lode" 1995: The Stellar Lode, Kenneth Grant: Skoob Books 2003: The Other Child, Kenneth Grant: Starfire The soul of an Egyptian queen exists within a glass sphere, which passes from hand to hand with strange effects. |
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"In Bastet's Service" 1991: Catfantastic II, ed. Andre Norton & Martin H. Greenberg: New York: DAW (pp. 105-123) The cat goddess speaks through a modern bronze reproduction. |
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| Griffith, George (= Jones, George Griffith)
The Mummy and Miss Nitocris: a phantasy of the fourth dimension 1906: London: T. Werner Laurie (Kingsway Series) The daughter of a professor is the reincarnation of an ancient princess, and two men who are reincarnations of men whose death she brought about conspire against her. |
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| Haggard, H. Rider
Allan and the Ice-Gods Allan Quatermain 1927: Hutchinson The novel, primarily about Allan's traveling back to the Ice Age, opens with the hero recounting the Egyptian events in The Ancient Allan. The Ancient Allan Allan Quatermain 1920: New York: Longmans, Green & Co. (frontis. illus. Enos B. Comstock) Quatermain and Lady Ragnall, under the influence of a hallucinagen, dream of a time when he was King Shabaka, and she was his lover, Amada. Ayesha: the return of She 1905: London: Ward, Lock The travelers who found She at Kôr go in search of her again in Central Asia. Sequel to She. Heu-Heu, or the Monster Allan Quatermain 1923 1924: Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page Quatermain discovers a lost race, with some pharaonic traits, in central South Africa. The Ivory Child Allan Quatermaine 1916: New York: Longmans Green Allan Quatermain encounters in African descendants of Egyptians who worship an ivory figure of Horus. Queen Sheba's Ring 1909: New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1910: London: Eveleigh Nash (illus. Cyrus Cuneo) 1910: New York: Doubleday Page She: a history of adventure 1886-1887: Graphic (serialized, October 2 - January 8) 1887: London: Longmans, Green 1888: (new edition) 1949: New York: Dell 1991: The Annotated She: a critical edition of H. Rider Haggard's Vicotorian romance with introduction and notes, Norman Etherington: Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (text of 1888 ed.) Explorers find the immortal queen of the ruined city of Kôr pining for her dead (Ptolemaic-era) Egyptian lover. See also retelling by Don Ward. She and Allan Allan Quatermain 1921: New York: Longmans, Green Allan Qatermain meets Ayesha, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed. "Smith and the Pharaohs" 1912-1913: Strand Magazine (December, 1912 - February, 1913) 1920: Smith and the Pharaohs and Other Tales, H. Rider Haggard: Bristol: Arrowsmith 2001: Into the Mummy's Tomb, ed. John Richard Stephens: Berkley A bank-clerk excavates in Egypt to try to find the woman who inspired a portrait bust in the British Museum. The Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Allan Quatermaine |
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| Hague, G. M.
Voices of Evil 2001: Dingley (Australia): Hinkler 2001: Pan A journalist's discovery an Egyptian amulet in an old metal tin sets off a sequence of horrible events. |
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| Hammond, Kay
The Dark City 1945: London; Gerald G. Swan Egyptians survive in hidden city in South America. |
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| Hand, Elizabeth
Catwoman 2004: New York: Del Rey Novelization of the screenplay about Batman's feline nemesis. The goddess Bast plays a role, as the artist who becomes Catwoman is licked back to life by an Egyptian mau. |
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| Harbinson, Allen
The Lodestone 1989: Sphere A master-criminal trying to avoid his own mortality seeks the mystical stone that once capped the Great Pyramid and fused Earth and Cosmos. Only Count de Saint Germain and two young Americans can stop him. |
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| Hard, T. W.
SUM VII 1979: New York: Harper & Row A mummy brought to the United States for a study of ancient diseases is found to contain signs of life. He is revived, and found to be a priest who helped design the Great Pyramid. |
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| Harding, Traci
Gene of Isis The Mystique Trilogy 2005: Sydney: Voyager/HarperCollins The "Grail bloodline," a genetic key to immortality, and ancient Egyptian secrets. |
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| Harness, Charles L.
"Set" 2006: Weird Tales 337 (January - February) An Italian Egyptologist's papers tell a tale of how Mussolini invoked the god Set's powers. |
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| Haweis, Stephen
Egyptian Love 1924: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. Two Cambridge graduates discover secrets of reincarnation and ancient love. |
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| Hawthorne, Julian
"The Unseen Man's Story" 1893: Six-Cent Sam's, Julian Hawthorne: St. Paul: Price-Mcgill A man who has committed crimes in a past incarnation finds the unopened tomb of an Egyptian queen. |
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| Herbertson, Mallard
Taia: A Shadow of the Nile 1890 The spirit of Queen Taia (Tiye), the mother of Akhenaten, is reincarnated, given an opportunity to make up for the terrible deeds in her past life. |
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| Heron, E. & H. (= Katherine and
Hesketh Prichard)
"The Story of Baelbrow" Flaxman Low 1898: Pearson's Magazine (April) 1899: Ghosts, being the experiences of Flaxman Low, by E. & H. Heron: London: C. A. Pearson 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (pp. 81-94) An otherwise comfortable mansion in Scotland is haunted by a "narrow and straight" ghost with black hair. |
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| Hjortsberg, William
Nevermore Atlantic Monthly Press Set in 1920s Manhattan, murders recreating Edgar Allen Poe's works attract the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who thinks his friend Harry Houdini might be the real target and employs the aid of a clairvoyant who thinks she is Isis incarnated. |
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| Hoch, Edward D.
"The Weekend Magus" 1980: Mummy! a Chrestomathy of "Crypt-ology," ed. Bill Pronzini: New York: Arbor House 1981: The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini: Arbor House 1986: Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini: Crown/Bonanza (pp. 447-458) 1990: Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Ballantine (pp. 131-141) In a Roman-age burial, an archaeologist has found an Egyptian mummy -- and something else even more extraordinary. |
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| Hohlbein, Wolfgang
Indiana Jones und das Labyrinth des Horus[German: Indiana Jones and the Labyrinth of Horus] 1993: München: Goldmann, 1993 |
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| Holdstock, Robert & Kilworth, Garry
"The Ragthorn" 1992: World Fantasy Award, Best Novella 1994: British Science Fiction Award, Short Fiction 1991: A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow: New York: William Morrow 1999: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 12, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
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| Holt, Tom
Odds and Gods 1995: London: Orbit 2002: The Divine Comedies Omnibus 3, Tom Holt: London: Orbit A power-mad young relation causes the wheelchair-bound Osiris to depart on a quest from the Sunneyvoyde Residential Home for Retired Gods. |
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| Hope, Murry
The Nine Lives of Tyo: a tale for the child within us all 1990: Loughborough, Leicestershire: Thoth Publications Tyo, one of the extraterrestrial feline Paschats, has nine lives on earth, one of which is as a temple cat of Akhnaton. |
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| Hopkins, Pauline
Of One Blood, or The Hidden Self 1902-1903: Colored American Magazine (serialized) 1990: The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins : Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood: Oxford: Oxford University Press/The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers 2004: New York: Pocket Books 2004: Washington Square Press A black Harvard medical student, his wealthy friend, and a a beautiful African-American singer with whom both are in love, travel to Ethiopia, where they find the descendents of the ancient civilization of Meroe. |
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| Hopkinson, Nalo
The Salt Roads 2004: New York: Warner Books A spirit summoned upon the death of a stillborn slave child in the Caribbean journeys through many lives, including one as a Nubian prostitute who makes a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the year AD 300. |
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| Houdini, Harry (ghostwritten by
Lovecraft, H. P.)
"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" (="Under the Pyramids") 1924: Weird Tales (May-July) (as "Imprisoned...") 1939 (as "Under...") 1971: The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror: Scholastic (as "Imprisoned...", pp. 61-99) 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (as "Imprisoned...", pp. 150-177) 1992: The Face of Tutankhamun, ed. Christopher Frayling: Faber and Faber (as "Imprisoned..."; abridged) 2001: Into the Mummy's Tomb, ed. John Richard Stephens: Berkley (as "Under...") Originally published under the name of Harry Houdini, who devised the plot of this tale set on the Giza Plateau. |
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| Howard, Robert E.
"Hawk of Basti" 1968: Red Shadows, Robert E. Howard, ed. Donald M. West: Kingston, Rhode Island: Grant(unfinished story) 1979: Solomon Kane, Robert E. Howard: New York: Bantam 1979: The Hills of the Dead, Robert E. Howard: New York: Bantam (completed by Ramsey Campbell) Lost race of ancient Egyptians. "Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls" Cthulhu Cycle 1997: Nyarlathotep Cycle: Stories about the God of a Thousand Forms, ed. Robert M. Price: Call of Cthulhu Fiction: Chaosium |
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| Huff, Tanya
Blood Lines Blood 3 1993: New York: DAW Henry Fitzroy, a 450-year-old vampire, and ex-cop Vicki Nelson must defeat a murderous mummy accidentally revived at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. |
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| Hume, Fergus
The Green Mummy 1908 The Nameless City: a Romanny romance 1894: London: Osgood McIlvaine In a hidden city called Chai live gypsies descended from the ancient Egyptians. |
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| Hyde-Chambers, Derek
The Orgy of Bubastis 1974 A group of actors in the south of France discover that the power of the cat-goddess Bubastis is neither a myth nor dead. |
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| Hyne, C. J. Cutliffe
"The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt" 1904: Atoms of Empire, C. J. Cutliffe Hyne: London: Macmillan The Mummies Return: The Classic Stories that Inspired the Original Mummy Movies, ed. Jean Marie Stine: Page-Turner E-Books A museum demonstrator, descended from an Egyptian mummy, is hypnotized to discover lost knowledge of the past. |
| Irving, Compton
Daughter of Egypt 1937: Allan Revivification of a mummy from the era of Tutankhamun. |
| Lanoie, A. A.
Anubis 2003: PublishAmerica The proprietors of a small conservation lab and museum in Chicago must defeat the evil soul of a pharaoh that has possessed a statute of Anubis. |
| Lansdale, Joe R.[NEWS
3 July 2004]
"Bubba Ho-Tep" 1994: Writer of the Purple Rage, Joe R. Lansdale: Baltimore: CD Publications, pp. 79-125 1997: Writer of the Purple Rage, Joe R. Lansdale: New York: Caroll & Graf 2003: Bubba Ho-tep, Joe R. Lansdale: Night Shade Books (signed, limited ed. 750 copies) Elvis Presley and a black man who claims to be JFK team up to defeat a soul-eating mummy who leaves hieroglyphic graffiti in the bathroom stalls of their rest home. The basis for a 2002 film. |
| Laymon, Richard
Amara 2003: London: Headline [introduction by Dean Koontz] 2003: New York: Leisure (as To Wake the Dead) The mummy of the red-haired wife of Mentuhotep I revives in a Southern California museum and is out for blood. |
| Leadbeater, C. W.
"The Forsaken Temple" 1911: The Perfume of Egypt and Other Stories, C. W. Leadbeater: Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Office 1979: Saved by a Ghost: true tales of the occult, C. W. Leadbeater: Quest "The Perfume of Egypt" 1911: The Perfume of Egypt and Other Stories, C. W. Leadbeater: Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Office 1979: Saved by a Ghost: true tales of the occult, C. W. Leadbeater: Quest |
| Lee, Tanith
Dark Dance Blood Opera Sequence 1 1994 Darkness 1 Blood Opera Sequence 3 The abduction of a girl to an underground faux Egypt sparks a feud between members of the Scarabae, a family of vampires who age in reverse. Personal Darkness Blood Opera Sequence 2 Reigning Cats and Dogs 1995: London: Headline (cover illus. Mark Salwowski) 1996: London: Headline (cover illus. Mark Salwowski) In a Dickensian city replete with Egyptian monuments, a dog-headed monstrosity is meting out justice by making ancient men of children and fetuses of old men. |
| Leight, Walter W.
The Archeologist and the Princess 1957: New York: Exposition Press An archaeologist falls in love with a resurrected 4,700-year-old mummy in this humorous novel. |
| Leighton, Tom
Night of the Sphinx 1979 Occult secrets, Nazis, and a beautiful American in 1936 Alexandria. |
| Leslie, Shane
"In a Glass Dimly" 1931: When Churchyards Yawn: Fifteen New Ghost Stories, ed. Lady Cynthia Asquith: London: Hutchinson It is impossible to photograph a certain object decorated with the Book of the Dead. |
| Le Voleur (= Carey, Rosa
Nouchette)
For Love of a Bedouin Maid 1897: London: Hutchinson & Co. (illus. Ernest Dyer) Napolean, prophecy, magic amulet, and an underground city at an Egyptian oasis. |
| Lindskold, Jane
The Buried Pyramid 2004: New York: Tor A 19th-Century Egyptologist. |
| Long, Frank Belknap
"The Dog-Eared God" 1926: Weird Tales 2000: Arkham's Masters of Horror, ed. by Peter Ruber "In the Tomb of Semenses" "A Visitor from Egypt" 1930: Weird Tales (September) 1931: Creeps by Night: Chills and Thrills, ed. Dashiell Hammett: New York: John Day 1946: The Hounds of Tindalos, Frank Belknap Long: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House 1971: The Mummy Walks Among Us, ed. Vic Ghidalia: American Education Publishers (pp. 35-50) 1975: The Early Long: New York: Doubleday 1976: Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabre, ed. Les Daniels: Charles Scribner (illus. Lee Brown Coye) 1980: World Fantasy Awards II, ed. Stuart David Schiff & Fritz Lieber: Garden City: Doubleday Strange things happen when a strange British Egyptologist visits a New England museum. |
| Lovecraft, H.P.
"The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" Cthulhu Cycle "The Dreams in the Witch House" Cthulhu Cycle 1997: Nyarlathotep Cycle: Stories about the God of a Thousand Forms, ed. Robert M. Price: Chaosium "The Haunter of the Dark" Cthulhu Cycle 1997: Nyarlathotep Cycle: Stories about the God of a Thousand Forms, ed. Robert M. Price: Chaosium "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" (= "Under the Pyramids") 1924: Weird Tales (May) (as "Imprisoned..."; byline of Houdini, Harry) 1939 (as "Under..."; byline of Houdini, Harry) 1944: Marginalia, H.P. Lovecraft; ed. August Derleth & Donald Wandrei: Sauk City, WI: Arkham House (as "Imprisoned...") 1971: The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror: Scholastic, pp. 61-99 (as "Imprisoned...") 2001: Into the Mummy's Tomb, ed. John Richard Stephens: Berkley (as "Under. . .") Originally published under the name of Harry Houdini, who devised the plot of this tale set on the Giza Plateau. "Nyarlathotep" Cthulhu Cycle 1920: The United Amateur 20.2 (November)(pp. 19-21) 1997: Nyarlathotep Cycle: Stories about the God of a Thousand Forms, ed. Robert M. Price: Chaosium "And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. . . ." "The Outsider" 1971: The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror: Scholastic (pp. 51-60) |
| Luigi, Belli (pseudonym)
The Curse of the Mummy 1950?: Sydney: Transport Publishing Co. Sequel to The Mummy Walks. The mummy, unrewrapped, goes looking for revenged. The Mummy Walks 1950?: Sydney: Transport Publishing Co. An antique dealer unwraps a mummy. He, his fiancée, and her father, an Egyptologist, must rewrap it. |
| Lumley, Brian
Khai of Ancient Khem 1980: Grafton 1981: Berkley Books 2004: New York: Tor (as Khai of Khem) Long before recorded history, Khai turns to Kush, the enemy of his homeland Khem, to defeat a fiendish pharaoh. |
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Newman, Kim Seven Stars 1999: Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths, ed. Stephen Jones: Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fedogan & Bremer 2000: Pocket Books The tale of a cursed, plague-causing gem from ancient Egypt to the twenty-first century. A seven-episode sequel to Bram Stoker's "Jewel of the Seven Stars." |
| Norton, Henry A.
"Sammy Calls a Noobis" 1943: Fantastic Adventures (January) 1947: The Night Side: Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible, ed. August Derleth: New York: Rinehart 1966: The Night Side: Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible, ed. August Derleth: London: Four Square Books A boy summons and then must banish the Egyptian jackal-god. |
| Page, Norvell
"The Coming of the Terror" The Spider, Master of Men 1936: Spider, Master of Men (September) The first of four encounters with the Living Pharaoh. See E. C. Tepperman for the other two. "The Devil's Death Dwarfs" The Spider, Master of Men 1936: Spider, Master of Men (October) The second of four encounters with the Living Pharaoh. See E. C. Tepperman for the other two. |
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Paine, Michael (= Curlovich, John) Cities of the Dead 1988: New York: Charter In 1903, Howard Carter acts as a tour guide for an American tourist -- and as a detective when a large number of mummies start turning up on the market. |
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Parson, Scott
"Asleep on the Job" 1990: Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Ballantine (pp. 62-72) A malcontent man is set to guard a traveling Egyptian display at an Arizona college. |
| Partridge, Norman
Wildest Dreams Subterranean Press A second-sighted man becomes entangled with a satanic cult, the members of which include a seven-foot-tall student of Egyptology whose sarcophagus lies within a redwood pyramid. |
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Pei, Mario A.
"The Ritual of Ptah-mes" 1958: Tales of the Natural and Supernatural, Mario A. Pei 1971: Tales of the Natural and Supernatural, Mario A. Pei: Devin-Adair A medieval magician attempts to make the mummy of a high priest reveal a secret. |
| Pelevin, Viktor
Homo Zapiens (translated from Russian) A would-be poet who finds himself as an advertising copywriter in post-Soviet Russia seeks guidance from a Ouija board (and the soul of Che Guevara), and some ancient Babylonian and Egyptian symbols. |
| Peterson, Margaret
Deadly Nightshade 1924: London: Hurst & Blackett Ancient Egyptian culture survives in Africa. |
| Poe, Edgar Allen
"Some Words With a Mummy" 1845: American Whig Review (April) 1850-1856: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, with notices of his life and genius by N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W. Grisworld, ed. Rufus Griswold: New York: John Redfield (4 vols.) 1981: The Annotated Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Stephen Peithman: New York: Doubleday & Co. 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (pp. 15 -31) 1980: Mummy! a Chrestomathy of "Crypt-ology," ed. Bill Pronzini: New York: Arbor House 1981: The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini: Arbor House 1986: Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini: Crown/Bonanza (pp. 337-355) 1990: Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Ballantine (pp. 103-118) 1992: The Face of Tutankhamun, ed. Christopher Frayling: Faber and Faber 2001: Into the Mummy's Tomb, ed. John Richard Stephens: Berkley A mummy being dissected revives and engages in conversation with his examiners. |
| Powell, Talmage
"Charlie" 1980: Mummy! a Chrestomathy of "Crypt-ology," ed. Bill Pronzini: New York: Arbor House 1981: The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini: Arbor House 1986: Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini: Crown/Bonanza An archaeologist in Guatemala discovers the mummies of two children and evidence of a connection between Egyptian and Mayan civilizations. "A Hunger in the Blood" 1948: Dime Mystery Magazine 1989: Curses, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh: New York: NAL Signet [revised] An Egyptian curse. |
| Powers, Tim
Earthquake Weather 1997: New York: Tor Sequel to Expiration Date. Last Call 1992: New York: William Morrow & Co. A man is involved in a dangerous game involving the tarot. |
| Praed, Rosa Campbell
The Body of His Desire: a romance of the soul 1912: London: Cassell An Anglican preacher is haunted by the soul of an Egyptian woman whom he has wronged in a previous life. |
| Pratt, Ambrose
The Living Mummy 1910: New York: Frederick A. Stokes (illus. Louis D. Fancher) 1910: London: Ward, Lock & Co. (illus. Louis D. Fancher) 1988: North American Archives Discovery of mummy of a magician from the days of the heretic king Ikhnaton precedes attacks upon an excavation and a love triangle. |
| Price, E. Hoffman
"Apprentice Magician" 1939: Weird Tales 1967: Strange Gateways, E. Hoffman Price: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House 1972: Wizards and Warlocks, ed. Vic Ghidalia: New York: Manor Books A young man named Panther becomes an apprentice of his magician-uncle. He has success with the goddess Sekhmet. "Shadow Captain" 1943: Speed Mystery 1975: Far Lands, Other Days, E. Hoffman Price: Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Carcosa Ancient ghosts complain to a captain that the ongoing campaign against the Germans is ruining their tombs. "Woman in the Case" 1938: Spicy Mystery Stories 1975: Far Lands, Other Days, E. Hoffman Price: Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Carcosa Mummies &c. |
| Proctor, H. B.
The Mummy's Dream. An Egyptian Story of the Exodus 1898: London: Simpkin, Marshall A mummy psychically communicates the story of his former life. |
| Reeves, Phoebe
The Revenant Xlibris A biracial young woman who spent eight years in juvenile prison for her role in the murder of her mother encounters Kongo and Egyptian ancestors in her quest to redeem herself. |
| Reid, C. Lestock
The Trail of the Pharaoh's Treasure 1935: London: Philip Allan Search for a treasure in Africa. |
| Resnick, Mike
The Amulet of Power Tomb Raider/Lara Croft 2003: New York: Del Rey Religious fantatics pursue the combat-trained woman archaeologist, who they believe possesses a magical amulet that was lost in the 1884-85 seige of Khartoum. "The Mummy" Lucifer Jones 1985: Adventures, Mike Resnick: Signet 1993: Pulphouse 2.3/16 |
| Rice, Anne
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned 1989: London: Chatto & Windus 2001: Into the Mummy's Tomb, ed. John Richard Stephens: Berkley (excerpt) translations: Spanish: El Momia 2001: Punto De Lectura. Rameses the Great, cursed with immortality, is awakened from the 2000-year-long sleep into which he put himself when his lover Cleopatra killed herself. Pandora: The Tales of Vampires Vampire Chronicles Pandora, the first vampire created by the Roman vampire Marius, tells her tale of 2,000 years. She has nightmares of the earlier, Egyptian vampires. Queen of the Damned Vampire Chronicles 1988 Lestat awakens Akasha, the first vampire, who was once queen of Egypt. Sequel to The Vampire Lestat. The Vampire Lestat Vampire Chronicles 2001: New York: Knopf An 18th century French vampire tells the story of his life. All vampires, he learns, are descended from pharaonic royalty, Queen Akasha and King Enkil. Blood and Gold is its prequel. |
| Richards, Kel
The Curse of the Pharaohs Sherlock Holmes' Tales of Terror 1997: Australia Beacon Communications Holmes must find a diamond called the Eye of Osiris and solve a kidnapping as the walking dead stalk the living. |
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Richards, Tony
Night Feast 1995: Pan Egyptian gods inhabit the bodies of their priests and survive on the dark emotions of humanity. |
| Robeson, Kenneth
THE AVENGER 6 -- The Blood Ring 1940: Avenger Magazine 6 1972: Avenger Magazine 6: New York: Warner Blood renews the curse of an ancient Egyptian ring, which results in a killing spree in a major museum. DOC SAVAGE The Pharaoh's Ghost 1944: Doc Savage 101a (June) 1981: Doc Savage: The Pharaoh's Ghost and The Time of Terror: New York: Ballantine Doc Savage and his crew are up against a foe who can wield a pharaoh's curse. |
| Robbins, David
The Wrath 1988: New York: Dorchester Publishing A plague from Egyptian tombs turns its victims into flesh-eating things. |
| Robins, Jennifer
GHOSTLY ANTIQUES 2 -- The Ancient Egyptian Bowl 2005: iUniverse Clara Espy, who can "read" objects with her psychic touch, encounters an ancient bowl connected to a murder. |
| Rohmer, Sax
The Bat Flies Low 1935: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran/Crime Club 1952: Famous Fantastic Mysteries 13.6 (October) (cover illus. Lawrence; int. illus. Lawrence & Finlay) The president of Western Electric seeks the ancient Egyptian secret of eternal light. The Brood of the Witch-Queen 1918: London: C. A. Pearson A wicked young man seeks to obtain his adopted father's fortune by use of Egyptian magic. "The Cat" 1914: The New Magazine: March, 1914 2000: The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2000: British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press Set in an Egyptian tomb. "The Case of the Potsherd of Anubis" 1920: The Dream Detective, Sax Rohmer: London: Jarrolds 1977: The Dream Detective, Sax Rohmer: Dover "The Case of the Veil of Isis" 1920: The Dream Detective, Sax Rohmer: London: Jarrolds 1977: The Dream Detective, Sax Rohmer: Dover A man has found a papyrus containing the induction of an initiate into the cult of Isis. "The Death Ring" (= "The Death-Ring of Sneferu") 1917: The Premier Magazine 43 (November) 1918: Tales of Secret Egypt, Sax Rohmer: London: Methuen (as "... of Sneferu") 1920: Aigyptiaka Mysteria, Sax Rohmer: New York: Enossis Publishing Co. [translated into Greek] 2001: Into the Mummy's Tomb, ed. John Richard Stephens: Berkley(as "... of Sneferu") A cursed ring belonging to King Sneferu is found in the Great Pyramid. The Green Eyes of Bast 1920: London: Cassell 1920: McBride No Date: New York: McKinlay Stone Mackenzie The spirit of the murderous cat-goddess possesses a female villain, as psychic investigator Dr. Damar Greefe discovers. Grey Face 1924: London: Cassell 1924: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company 1924: New York: A. L. Burt 1924: New York: P. F. Collier & Son 1924: New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie 1976: New York: Arno A mysterious mask is sometimes formless, sometimes in the shape of the jackal-head of Anubis. "The Headless Mummies" 1920: The Dream Detective, Sax Rohmer: London: Jarrolds 1977: The Dream Detective, Sax Rohmer: Dover A magical book is supposed to be hidden in a mummy's skull. "The Lord of the Jackals" 1918: Tales of Secret Egypt, Sax Rohmer: London: Methuen 1920: Aigyptiaka Mysteria, Sax Rohmer: New York: Enossis Publishing Co. [translated into Greek] A Frenchman is aided by an old man who can control jackals. "In the Valley of the Sorceress" (= "The Valley of the Sorceress") 1916: The Premier Magazine 21 (January) 1918: Tales of Secret Egypt, Sax Rohmer: London: Methuen 1920: Aigyptiaka Mysteria, Sax Rohmer: New York: Enossis Publishing Co. [translated into Greek] 1950: Avon Fantasy Reader 12, ed. Donald A. Wollheim & George Ernsberger: New York: Avon 1978: The Ancient Mysteries Reader Book 2, ed. Peter Haining: (UK): Sphere (as "The Valley...") 1992: The Face of Tutankhamun, ed. Christopher Frayling: Faber and Faber (as "The Valley...") The Mummies Return: The Classic Stories that Inspired the Original Mummy Movies, ed. Jean Marie Stine: Page-Turner E-Books Disguised as an Arab woman, Queen Hatusu (= Hatshepsut), who is a witch, thwarts the excavation of her tomb. "Sebek-Ra"(published anonymously) 1910: Pause!, anonymous: London: Greening & Co. Seven Sins Gaston Max 1943: McBride 1972: New York: Bookfinger Egyptian magic and Nazis in London. She Who Sleeps: the story of an importunate lover and a princess out of the past a romance 1928: Liberty (serialized in 10 parts 3 March - 5 May; illus. Will Foster) 1928: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran (as She Who Sleeps:a romance of New York and the Nile) 2004: Kessinger A young man whose father is a collector of Egyptian antiquities accompanies an expedition to open the tomb of a priestess placed in suspended animation centuries before. |
| Ronson, Mark (= Alexander, Marc)
Ghoul 1980: London: Hamlyn 1980: Markham, Ontario: PaperJacks Ltd. 1988: New York: Critics Choice Paperbacks/Lorevan Publishing An earthquake uncovers an ancient tomb in the Valley of the Jinn. Archaeologists investigate. |
| Rose, F. Horace
Pharoah's Crown: Love, Mystery & Romance in Egypt Old and New 1943: London: Duckworth An Englishmen helps an Egyptian, who keeps safe the ancient Egyptian crown, and his daughter escape Bantu tribesmen. The misspelling is in the printed title. |
| Ross, Marilyn
DARK SHADOWS 16 -- Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy's Curse 1970 Anthony Collins decides to catalog his Egyptian collection at Collinwood, and brings along the mummy of King Rehotip. |
| Rousseau, Victor
"The Curse of Amen-Ra" 1990: Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Ballantine (pp. 142-198) The Mummies Return: The Classic Stories that Inspired the Original Mummy Movies, ed. Jean Marie Stine: Page-Turner E-Books Mummies, sanitarium patients, and an ancient love triangle converge on an island in Chesapeake Bay. |
| Ryan, Kathleen
Setite Clan/Vampire: The Masquerade 3 1999: Clarkston, Georgia: White Wolf One book in a 13-book saga about a clan of incestuous vampires who worship Set. Seven thousand years ago Set, who loyally served the sun-god Re, was wrongly denied his inheritance and took revenge on Osiris "the Traitor." |
| Saberhagen, Fred
A Coldness in the Blood Dracula series 2002: New York: Tor The murder of a human, a missing vampire, and a smashed Egyptian statuette bring the powerful vampire Matthew Maule (a.k.a. Vlad Dracula) into a confrontation with an evil that could destroy all humanity. |
| Sackett, Jeffrey
Stolen Souls 1987: New York: Bantam Seven Egyptian coffins bring soul-eating horror to a college town in Upstate New York. |
| Sackville, Orme
The Curse of Amen-tah 1934 No Date (c. 1935): London: The Modern Publishing Company A newly-discovered tomb, complete with curse and reincarnated mummy, serve as the backdrop for a murder/kidnapping mystery. |
| Sanders, William
"Ninekiller and the Neterw" 1998: Lord of the Fantastic, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Avon A pilot and an archaeologist whose helicopter crashes in the Egyptian desert find a terrorists' stash in ancient ruins. |
| Saracen, Justine THE IBIS PROPHECY 1 -- The 100th Generation 2006: Bold Strokes 2 -- Vulture's Kiss 2007: Bold Strokes |
| Schwartz, David J.
"The King of Memphis" 2004: Talebones 28 (Summer) Elvis's talents have been endowed by Egyptian gods. |
| Sherman, Josepha
The Captive Soul Highlander 1988: Warner Books Methos must once again face the Immortal Hyksos prince he helped the Egyptians defeat three thousand years ago, or else all the Immortals are doomed. |
| Shiner, Lewis
Glimpses 1993: New York: William Morrow and Co. A man tries to come to terms with mortality. Invokes the Egyptian belief in multiple parts of the soul (ka, ba, etc.). |
| Shirk, Adam Hull
"Osiris, the Weird Tale of an Egyptian Mummy" 1923: Weird Tales 1.4 (June) |
| Shwartz, Susan
Byzantium's Crown Heirs to Byzantium 1 1987: Questar/Popular Library A prince descended from Alexander the Great must regain the throne from an evil wizard, and can win only with the magic taught to him by a silver-haired slave girl in Egypt. |
| Simmons, William Mark Dead on My Feet 2003: New York: Baen One of the beings hunting Chris Csejthe for his unique blood is a 6,000 year old Egyptian necromancer. Sequel to One Foot in the Grave |
| Slavicsek, Bill
"Carnival Voice" Nile Empire ("Torg" role-playing game milieu) 1992: Mysterious Cairo, ed. Greg Gorden & Bill Slavicsek: Honesdale, Pennsylvania: West End Books, 1992 |
| Smith, Bill
"Dead End" Nile Empire ("Torg" role-playing game milieu) 1992: Mysterious Cairo, ed. Greg Gorden & Bill Slavicsek: Honesdale, Pennsylvania: West End Books "The Dreams of Midnight" Nile Empire ("Torg" role-playing game milieu) 1992: Mysterious Cairo, ed. Greg Gorden & Bill Slavicsek: Honesdale, Pennsylvania: West End Books |
| Smith, D. Lynn "The Charnel House" 2007: Summer Chills, ed. Stephen Jones: Carroll & Graf A woman seeks spiritual enlightenment. |
| Smith, Clark Ashton
"The Last Hieroglyph" Weird Tales 1970: Zothique, Clark Ashton Smith: New York: Ballantine A sorcerer is led on a journey by an Egyptianesque mummy. |
| Smith, Guy N.
Accursed 1988: Arrow An amulet of Set, found buried in garden, brings dreadful destruction. |
| Smith, Thorne
Turnabout 1931: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran 1933: The Thorne Smith 3-Decker, by Thorne Smith: Sun Dial Press 1947: Pocket An Egyptian idol called Mr. Ram, tired of listening to the bickering of the married couple that owns him, puts the mind of Tim into the body of Sally and vice versa. |
| Smith, Wilbur
The Seventh Scroll 1995: St. Martin's Press In an ancient papyrus written by Taita, an Egyptian woman Egyptologist finds a clue to the lost tomb of King Mamose. Sequel to River God and Warlock. The Sunbird 1972 2002: New York: St. Martin's Two men search for the jungles of Africa for Opet, a lost city built millennia ago by Egyptians. |
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Bless the Child 1993: New York: Random House 2000: New York: Pocket Dreams of an Egyptian prophesy plague a woman whose grandchild may be the last hope in a war between good and evil. Made into a movie starring Kim Basinger (2000). |
| Springer, Robin H.
Sehkmet 1995: Salt Lake City: Northwest Publishing After 6500 years, the goddess once sent to purge the world of evil has returned -- to Florida as a serial killer. The misspelling is in the printed title. |
| Stableford, Brian
The Angel of Pain 1993: London: Pan Twenty years after David was bit by an asp in Egypt, the Sphinx, ancient cat goddess of the fallen Angels, still stirs. Sequel to The Werewolves of London. The Werewolves of London 1990 In 1872, a visit to Egypt brings visionary powers to David Lydyard. |
| Stark, Ed
"Knowing the Rules" Nile Empire ("Torg" role-playing game milieu) 1992: Mysterious Cairo, ed. Greg Gorden & Bill Slavicsek: Honesdale, Pennsylvania: West End Books |
| Stein, Kevin
"Face of Justice" Nile Empire ("Torg" role-playing game milieu) 1992: Strange Tales from the Nile Empire, ed. Greg Gorden & Bill Slavicsek: West End Games (pp. 173-235) |
| Stevens, Francis .
"Behind the Curtain" 1918: All-Story Weekly (September 21) 1940: Famous Famous Fantastic Mysteries (January) 1991: Famous Fantastic Mysteries, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H Greenberg and Robert E Weinberg: Gramercy An antiquarian, his Egyptian coffin, and adulterous wife. |
| Stevenson, Burton E.
A King in Babylon 1917: Boston: Small, Maynard (illus. W.H. D. Koerner) Attempts to film a movie in Egypt about a Hyksos king bring manifestations of the ancient past onto the set. |
| Stoker, Bram
The Jewel of Seven Stars 1903: London: Heinemann 1904: New York: Harper & Brothers 1919: London: Rider (with a different ending) 1972: New York: Scholastic early 1970s: Fantasy Classics 5: Fantasy House (illus. David Weiss, Gerry Mooney, John Pound) 1989: London: Carroll & Graf 1992: The Face of Tutankhamun, ed. Christopher Frayling: Faber and Faber (excerpt, chapter 20 from the 1903 edition) 1996: London: Pocket The spirit of an Egyptian princess temporarily inhabits the daughter of an Egyptologist while awaiting full resurrection. Inspired the films "From the Mummy's Tomb" (1971), "The Awakening" (1980), and "Legend of the Mummy" (1997). (See also the News! item) |
| Stuckart, Diane A.S.
"Once, We Were Worshiped" 2001: A Constellation of Cats, ed. Denis Little: New York: DAW A cat attempts to resurrect a cat-mummy, to learn how it is that humans came to dominate the world. |
| Summer Rain, Mary
The Seventh Mesa: a novel 1994: Hampton Roads Publishing Co. Ancient Egyptian traces are found within a mesa in the southwestern United States. |
| Tepperman, E. C.
"City of Dreadful Night" The Spider, Master of Men 1936: Spider, Master of Men (November) The third of four encounters with the Living Pharaoh. See Norvell Page for the other two. "Reign of the Snake Men" The Spider, Master of Men 1936: Spider, Master of Men (December) The fourth of four encounters with the Living Pharaoh. See Norvell Page for the other two. |
| Terra, John
"Cry Havoc" Nile Empire ("Torg" role-playing game milieu) 1992: Mysterious Cairo, ed. Greg Gorden & Bill Slavicsek: Honesdale, Pennsylvania: West End Books |
| Thomas, Dorothy
The Call of the Phoenix 1945: Los Angeles: New Age Publishing A spiritual journey with an initiation in the Great Pyramid; based on a text by Charles E. Sleater. |
| Tilton, Lois & Doyle, Noreen
"The Chapter of Coming Forth by Night" 2000: Realms of Fantasy (February) (pp. 42-55) (illus. John Berkey) A goddess attempting to free her imprisoned husband confronts a nineteenth-century British papyrologist and an American tycoon-cum-treasure-hunter who already has the Sphinx's head in his collection. |
| Tregarth, Cynnara
Shades of Fyre 2004: Triskelion Publishing ebook Archaeologist Charis Windstrom, a former member of the Circle of Elemental Guardians, finds an Amarna tomb warded by an efreet, which is bent on destroying the Circle and the Ma'at Council. |
| Tremayne, Peter
The Revenge of Dracula Dracula Lives! 2 1978 1993: Dracula Lives!, Peter Tremayne: Signet UK The legend of Dracula has a connection with ancient Egyptian blood sacrifice. |
| Waggoner, Tim
"Anubis Has Left the Building" 1998: More Monsters from Memphis, ed. Beecher Smith: Palo Alto, CA: Zapizdat Productions (pp. 221-230) The Egyptian psychopomp confronts death. |
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| Walker, Darrell
Vena: In Search of Nefertiti 2004: 1stBooks Library |
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| Wall, A. A Princess of Chalco 1892: London: Chapman & Hall A lost race of Egyptians survive in South America (perhaps in El Dorado?). |
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| Walpole, Horace
"The King and His Three Daughters" 1785: Hieroglyphic Tales 1988: Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment, by David G. Hartwell: New York: St. Martin's Press 1993: Hieroglyphic Tales by Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford: Mercury House 1999: Sophy 3 Features a dead, three-legged prince who speaks "only Egyptian." |
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| Ward, A. Sarsfield
"The Mysterious Mummy" 1903: Pearson's Weekly Christmas Extra (November 26) 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (pp. 114-125) (as by Sax Rohmer) |
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| Ward, Don
H. Rider Haggard's She 1949: Dell A retelling of the original novel. |
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| Ward, Harold
"The Gray Creatures" Dr. Death 1935: Doctor Death (March) |
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| Washington, S. H. L.
The Temple of Mystery: a tale of adventure 1924: Liverpool: Henry Young |
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| Watson, Ian
"The Pharaoh and the Mademoiselle" 1985: The Book of Ian Watson, Ian Watson: Mark V. Ziesing 1991: Stalin's Teardrops, Ian Watson: London: Gollancz (pp. 198-261) |
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| Webb, Forrest
The Circle of Ra 1982: London: Corgi On assignment in Cairo, an American military officer whose identity is somehow tied up with that of an ancient warrior is threatened by Soviets, Libyans, and a beautiful young girl. |
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| Webster, F. A. M.
The Odyssey of Hunsky Illier 1934: London: Chapman & Hall Lost Egyptian civilization, among others. |
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| Weighell, Ron
"The Curse of Nectanebo" Sherlock Holmes 2000: The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Ron Weighell: Canada Calabash Press |
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| Weinberg, Robert
The Dead Man's Kiss 1992: Pocket A long-dead priest would use a white supremacist to sacrifice millions in order to reunite the two halves of his soul that were split apart for a crime he didn't commit. |
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| Werper, Barton
Tarzan and the Abominable Snowmen Tarzan 1965: Gold Star Books Jane and her party find themselves captured by the Egyptian Queen Ak-Ahmen, who rules a tribe on Mount Kilamanjaro. This book was unauthorized by the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs. |
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| Wheatley, Dennis
The Devil Rides Out 1935: London: Hutchinson 1954: London: Arrow An evil magician uses a man and a woman with whom this man's friend is in love to find Osiris's phallus, which is the Talisman of Set. Sequel to Forbidden Territory. Basis for the 1968 movie of the same title. The Ka of Gifford Hillary 1956 1962 1969 1991 1996 A death ray kills a man, but his ka (soul) survives. Perhaps no other Egyptian connection beyond the term for soul(?). "A Life for a Life" 1943: Gunmen, Gallants and Ghosts, Dennis Wheatley: London: Hutchinson 1974: Uncanny Tales 2, ed. Dennis Wheatley: London: Sphere 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (pp. 239-249) The face of a mummy in the British Museum seems to come to life, after which a man is plagued by a nightmare. The Quest of Julian Day Julian Day 1939 1944: Stockholm 1952: London: Hutchinson 1965: London: Arrow To impress the woman he loves, Julian goes in search of the treasure of Cambyses in the Libyan Desert. |
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| Ward, George Whiteley
Drelma: a tale of the Great Sahara 1908: London: Greening A lost Egyptian community in a hidden desert valley. |
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| Wieland, Christoph Martin
"Der Stein der Weisen oder Sylvester und Rosine"[German: "The Philosopher's Stone or Sylvester and Rosina"] 1786: Dschinnistan, Christoph Martin Wieland An alleged Egyptian adept regales young King Mark of Cornwall with his adventures inside the Great Pyramid. |
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| Williams, Gary Groundswell 2004: Infinity Publishing The ancient Staff of Moses, transformed into an enormous serpent, turns up in Florida. Sequel to Fish of Souls. |
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| Williamson, J. N.
The Offspring 1980 1984: Leisure An evil child conceived centuries ago grows up in a typical Midwestern family. |
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| Willis, Connie
"Death on the Nile" Hugo Award for Best Short Story, 1993 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, 1993 1993: Asimov's Science Fiction 17.3/198 (March) (pp. 146-168) (cover illus. Mark Harrison; int. illus. Steve Cavallo) 1994: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois: New York: St. Martin's 1995: Nebula Awards 29, ed. Pamela Sargent: New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1997: The New Hugo Winners IV, ed. Gregory Benford: New York: Baen 2007: The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Connie Willis: Subterranean Press Amid fear of terrorists, American tourists fly into Cairo, cruise the Nile, visit the Valley of the Kings. |
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| Wilson, Daniel
Boy Harry and Princess Sestos Merrh 1927: London: Stockwell The descendants of ancient Egyptians found in the Sahara. |
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| Wilson, J. Arbuthnot (= Allen, Grant)
"The Miraculous Explorer" 1894: English Illustrated Magazine 12 (December) (pp. 99-102) An archaeologist has an uncanny ability to discover sites. "My New Year's Eve among the Mummies" 1878: Belgravia Christmas Annual 1884: Strange Stories, Grant Allen: London: Chatto & Windus 1893: Pearson's Weekly 177 (9 December) (pp. 322-323) 1895: The Desire of the Eyes and Other Stories: New York: Fenno 1989: The Mummy: Stories of the Living Corpse, ed. Peter Haining: Sutton (UK): Severn House (pp. 32-46) (as by Grant Allen)
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To Sift through Bitter Ashes Grails Covenant Trilogy 1/Vampire: the Dark Ages 1997: Clarkston, Georgia: White Wolf A vampire seeking the Holy Grail becomes involved with the Knights Templar and an Egyptian evil of immense antiquity. |
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| Wolfitt, Michael
Night-Shriek 1983: Granada Egyptian cat-goddess. |
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| Wollheim, Donald A.
"Bones" 1980: Mummy! a Chrestomathy of "Crypt-ology," ed. Bill Pronzini: New York: Arbor House 1981: The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini: Arbor House 1986: Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini: Crown/Bonanza (pp. 374-381) 1990: Mummy Stories, ed. Martin H. Greenberg: New York: Ballantine (pp. 40-46) Scientists examine a mummy that was prepared not for death but for resurrection. |
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| Wood, Barbara
The Prophetess 1997: Warner It's December, 1999, and an ancient scroll sought by archaeologist Catherine Alexander might conceal the key to Armageddon. The Watch Gods 1981: Dell 1982: London: New English Library
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| Wood, Demon L. A.
Words in the Wind: an African fantasy 1995 |
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"Summer Solstice" 1984: Analog (June) (pp. 12-54) (cover & int. illus. Val Lindahn) 1985: Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 14, ed. Terry Carr: New York: Tor An alien must land his damaged ship on Earth for repairs at Alexandria. |
| Anonymous
"Letter from a Revived Mummy" 1832: New York Evening Mirror IX (21 January 1832):227 Published as a genuine letter from a mummy who claims to have been revived by means of electricity. Perhaps inspired by Jane Loudon's The Mummy!, it may have in turn inspired Edgar Allan Poe's "Some Words with a Mummy." |
| Campbell, John Scott
"Beyond Pluto" 1932: Wonder Stories (Summer) 1951: Fantastic Story (Fall) (pp. 11-87) Platinum coins from an ancient Egyptian tomb lead scientists to a hidden land that holds the key to the stars. |
| Dayton, Arwen Elys
Resurrection 2001: New York: Roc An alien soldier of a nearly-extinct race must visit Earth to find the message of The Champion left among the pyramids of Giza five thousand years before. |
| Dick, Philip K.
Valis 1981 The suicide of a friend of Horselover Fat forces him to try to make sense of death and irrationality. Ikhnaton (Akhenaten) is related to three-eyed aliens from the Sirius star system, and his descendents secretly rule the world. |
| Dominik, Hans
Der Brand der Cheops-Pyramide [German:The Fire of the Cheops Pyramid] 1927 No Date (c. 1955): Berlin: Gebrüder Weiss Verlag Inspired by contemporary fears of nuclear power and Islam. |
| Douglass, Ellsworth
Pharaoh's Broker: Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Written by Himself 1899: London: C. Pearson 1976: Boston: Gregg Press 1976: Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group A financial speculator travels to Mars, where he finds a pharaonic culture. |
| Fairbairn, Tom E.
Lords of the Crescent 2005: Airleaf Aliens come to earth in antiquity. |
| Freer, David & Flint, Eric
Pyramid Scheme 2001 As an alien pyramid takes over Chicago, an expert in mythology finds himself in another world, confronting Egyptian and Greek gods. |
| Gaines, Charles Kelsey
"The Eye of Ammon Ra" 1896 1897: The Pocket Magazine IV.4 (August) A lost American tourist finds an ex-patriot living as an Arab, polishing an enormous, fantastically clear crystal lens. |
| Hamling, William Lawrence
"Shadow of the Sphinx" 1946: Fantastic Adventures 8.5 (November) A descendent of the pharaohs resurrects the mummy of a priestess, with the aim of conquering the world with ancient pharoanic technology. An Egyptologist pursues them to Egypt. |
| Heslop, Val
Lost Civilization: a story of adventure in Central Australia 1936: Sydney: St. George Publishing A lost race of technologically advanced ancient Egyptians survive in caverns in the Australian outback. |
| Holland, Tom
The Sleeper in the Sands 1998: London: Little, Brown 1999: London: Abacus A tale interweaving the events of three very different times: the discoveries of Howard Carter; the destruction of an ancient city by the general of the insane Caliph Al-Hakim; and the reign of Akh-En-Aten. |
| Honea, Michael
54: a novel about the future of antiquity 2004: iUniverse A crew of seismologists uncover ancient secrets while searching for oil in Egypt's Western Desert. |
| Jane, Frederick Thomas
To Venus in Five Seconds: An Account of the Strange Disappearance of Thomas Plummer, Pillmaker 1897 (as by Frederick T. Jane) Enormous insects and ancient Egyptians inhabit Venus. |
| Jonz, St. Juill
Phleideis (A Pharaoh Story) Xlibris Phleideis, son of the pharaoh by an alien Akonian, is cast out by the Egyptians before he can become king. He becomes king of Ako and, after being cast out there, too, returns to Earth after 6,000 years, where he becomes an ally of the first black president of the United States. |
| Joyce, John VIRTUAL TRILOGY 1 -- Virtually Maria 2008: Spendrift A genius billionaire whose computer is programmed with the personality of his murdered wife discovers that his new robot pilot was felled by energy emitted by the Great Pyramid. |
| Laurie, Andre (= Grousset, Paschal)
Les Exiles de la Terre: Séléne Company Limited [French] No date (1887): Paris: Hachette
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| Leinster, Murray
"The Other World" 1949: Startling Stories (November) 1954: 6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin: Dell (pp. 119-216) Book of Alternate Worlds, ed. Robert Adams A parallel world, devoid of human inhabitants, is discovered by ancient Egyptian priests, who also discover "our" world, from which they steal. |
| Mears, Richard Chase
Anubis Rex 2003: PublishAmerica Hitler has plans to create a master race from ancient DNA discovered in the Sudan. |
| Markwick, Edward
The City of Gold: a tale of sport, travel, and adventure in the heart of the dark continent 1896: Tower Publishing Co. (illus. H. Piffard) A lost race of scientifically advanced Egyptians -- or "pre-Phoenecians." |
| Nelson, Resa
"Osiris Rising" 2004: Paradox 6 (Winter 2004-2005) The postmortem clone of a woman travels to Egypt to find a rare visiting extraterrestrial, which she and her guide then pursue. |
| Phalen, David
"Lost Moments" 2001: Analog 131.10 (October) (pp. 94-111) An immortal man meets his immortal father along the banks of the ancient Nile; millennia later, the man's immortal son seeks to discover the genetic mechanism behind their deathless state. |
| Pond, Roy Lester The Smiting Texts NEW 3/09 2009: Austin Macauley A "fringe" Egyptologist helps hunt down terrorists who are using ancient Egyptian magical texts to kill from afar. |
| Rohmer, Sax
The Day the World Ended M. Gaston Max 1929: Collier's (serialized in 12 issues) 1930: Garden City, New York: DoubleDay, Doran & Co./Crime Club 1930: Chicago: A. L. Burt 1930: New York: Ace 1932: London: Cassell A Parisian gendarme has three days to save the world from supernatural forces that seem to be at work. |
| Saberhagen, Fred
Pyramids 1987: New York: Baen 1997: Pilgrim, by Fred Saberhagen: New York: Baen A college student whose uncle made his fortune selling Egyptian artifacts must confront the Pilgrim, a time-traveling entity who terrified his uncle for 50 years. |
| Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann
Channeling Cleopatra 2002: New York: Ace A corporation has developed the means of transferring the personality and thoughts of one person via DNA into another; a forensic scientist with an interest in ancient Egypt goes in search of Cleopatra's remains. Cleopatra 7.2 2004: New York: Ace Sequel to Channeling Cleopatra. The ancient queen's DNA is illegally reconstituted with two hosts. |
| Serviss, Garrett P.
Edison's Conquest of Mars 1898: New York Evening Journal (serialized, 12 January - 10 February) 1947: Los Angeles: Fred Shroyer/Carcosa House (limited ed. 1500 copies) 1969: Garrett P. Serviss: Powell Publications (as Invasion of Mars) An unauthorized sequel to H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, featuring Thomas Alva Edison as the hero, leading an invasion of Mars. Features the descendents of the slaves who built the Egyptian pyramids. |
| Shea, Cornelius
In the Depths of the Dark Continent, or, the vengeance of Van Vincent (= Van Vincent's Vow, or, chased to the heart of the dark continent) 1905: Brave and Bold 109 (January 21) Van Vincent's Vow, or, chased to the heart of the dark continent (= In the Depths of the Dark Continent, or, the vengeance of Van Vincent) 1892: Golden Hours (serialized May 28 - July 30) Descendents of the ancient Egyptians survive with their advanced civilization in the heart of Africa. |
| Shiel, Lisa A.
The Hunt for Bigfoot 2004: Weatherford, Texas: Slipdown Mountain Publications An Egyptologist helps a website designer and would-be anthropologist track down the latter's historian friend. The last two had been searching for evidence of flaws in modern evolutionary theory. |
| Siebert, Steven
Cleopatra's Needle 1999: New York: Tor/Forge A Syrian terrorist seeks to use the separated halves of a magical ankh to revive the spirit of Osiris. |
| Stewart, Ian & Cohen, Jack
Wheelers 2001: New York: Warner Aspect An associate steals credit for archaeologist Prudence Odingo's discovery of mysterious inscriptions within the Sphinx. Odingo quits and goes off to explore the moons of Jupiter, where she finds an artifact that becomes animate and the key to a lost civilization. |
| Tritten, Larry
"History's Mysteries" 1999: Fantasy & Science Fiction 96.5/573(May): 80-85. A series of vignettes examining fringe theories behind a number of places, including the pyramids. |
| Weinbaum, Stanley G.
"A Martian Odyssey" "The Valley of Dreams" |
| Anonymous (= Loudon, Jane Webb)
The Mummy! Or, A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century 1827: London: Henry Colburn (3 vols) 1828: (heavily revised) 1994: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (abridged by Alan Rauch) (as by Jane Loudun) Restored to life, Cheops attempts to set aright English civilization. |
| Axler, James
Mask of the Sphinx Outlanders 30 2004: Gold Eagle A good telepathic queen rules the post-apocalyptic city of Aten, but war is coming to this hidden oasis of safety in California. A sequel to the Deathlands series novel, Nightmare Passage. Nightmare Passage Deathlands 40 1998: Gold Eagle Centuries after a nuclear holocaust, a band of survivalists find a recreated Egyptian city, complete with god-king, in the Guadalupe Desert. |
| Balfour, Bruce
The Forge of Mars 2002: New York: Ace Kate, an Egyptologist, and Tau, an engineer who designs artificial-intelligent robots, must unlock the secrets of ancient artifacts found on Mars by a team of Russian cosmonauts. |
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Reality Dust Xeelee Sequence 2000: Harrogate (UK): PS Publishing In the 55th century, alien overlords have been driven from Earth, which now must contend with the remaining "Pharaohs," immensely long-lived humans who survive by means of outlawed alien technology and who are the only link to Earth's now-destroyed human past. |
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"Of Space-Time and the River" 1985: New Castle, Virginia: Cheap Street (limited edition chapbook, illustrated by Judy King-Rieniets) 1986: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (February) 1986: In Alien Flesh, Gregory Benford: New York: Tor (pp. 196-230) Fictionwise eBook
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| Beynon, John (= Harris, John
Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon)
The Secret People 1935: Passing Show Magazine (serialized) 1935: London: Newnes 1950: Famous Fantastic Mysteries (April) 1973: New York: Fawcett Gold Medal (as by Wyndham, John) 1964: Lancer 1987: NEL Part of the Sahara has been turned into the "New Sea," threatening the existence of a lost civilization of fungus-cultivating pygmies beneath the earth. In the caverns are depictions of Egyptian gods. |
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| Burstein, Michael A. & Tourtellotte,
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"Bug Out!" 2001: Analog (July/August) An expert on an alien culture being secretly studied on another planet believes that the aliens visited ancient Egypt. |
| Davis, Ruth Marie
The Reclamation Project 2001: AmErica House In the year 2250, Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun are cloned to provide the "human-key" to the secrets of antediluvian scrolls unearthed at Giza, which will permit contact with extraterrestrials. |
| Ducornet, Rikki
"Egyptian Gum" 1996: Interzone 114 (December) A new son et lumičre show has destroyed the pyramids, which results in a plague of corporeal mutability and, as a mother discovers, a generation gap of a sort never before seen. |
| Gray, Curme
Murder in Millennium VI 1951: Chicago: Shasta Publishers 1952: When Dorinda Dances; The Virgin Hundress; The Far Cry; Murder in Millennium VI, Brett Halliday, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Fredric Brown, & Curme Gray: New York: Unicorn Book Club A murder takes place in a matriarchal society of the future which has forgotten what death is. Vague Egyptianesque elements, chiefly in the monarchy and the achievement of immortality (and design elements within the book). |
| Griffith, Nicola
Ammonite 1993: New York: Del Rey On an alien world with a remant human population, an anthropologist investigates the effects of a deadly virus. Minimal Egyptian content: the natives give the anthropologist the nickname "Amun" because they allege it means "Completed One" (sic). |
| Group, Carl A.
Atenthos: 3000 Years That Never Happened 1987: Sinbad Publishing In a galaxy far, far away, a pharaoh-like king launches a dynasty and society of 3,000 years of peace and progress. |
| Gunn, James
"The Futurist" 1993: Amazing Stories 68.7/588 (November) An enormus sphinx materializes outside the United Nations building in New York City. |
| Hogan, James P.
Martian Knightlife On a Martian vacation, Kieran Thane is present when geologists discover the ruins of the civilization that built the pyramids on Earth. |
| Jeschke, Wolfgang
"Osiris Land" [German] 1982: Arcane: Munich: Hilhelm Heyne Verlag
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"The Sun God at Dawn, Rising from a Lotus Blossom" 2007: Writers of the Future volume 23 A recreation of Tutankhamun, raised in relative isolation in Cairo, writes letters to a recreation of Abraham Lincoln. |
| Kingsbury, Donald
Psychohistorical Crisis 2001: New York: Tor A follow-up to Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. Knowledge of Earth, and ancient Egypt, persists in the far future. |
| Larson, Glen A. & Thurston, Robert
Lost Planet of the Gods Battlestar Galactica 1979 Clues to the whereabouts of lost Earth are found in Egyptianesque ruins on a planet considered to be the source of human civilization. Novelization of a 1978 episode of the television series. |
| Malzberg, Barry
"Revelation in Seven Stages" 1980: Mummy! a Chrestomathy of "Crypt-ology," ed. Bill Pronzini: New York: Arbor House 1981: The Arbor House Necropolis, ed. Bill Pronzini: Arbor House 1986: Tales of the Dead, ed. Bill Pronzini: Crown/Bonanza (pp. 503-507) In the far future, aliens visit a deserted Earth, where they find Egyptian mummies. |
| McCay, Bill
STARGATE SG1 1 -- Rebellion Stargate SG1 1 Egyptologist Daniel Jackson and commando Jack O'Neil lead the people of Abydos in a rebellion light years from Earth. Sequel to the movie Stargate. 2 -- Retaliation Stargate SG1 2 The newly-freed people of Abydos face internal struggles. 3 -- Retribution Stargate SG1 3 Hathor pursues the people of Abydos who have escaped to Earth, where Egyptologist Daniel Jackson must convince the United States government of the danger about to threaten the planet. 4 -- Reconnaissance Stargate SG1 4 Attempts to resettle the people of Abydos through another Stargate trap the Stargate team. 5 -- Resistance Stargate SG1 5 Daniel and Jack have lead the Abydos survivors to a new planet inhabited by feline creatures who serve an older race of beings, and all is not as peaceful as it seems. |
| Moore, Catherine L.
"The Dust of the Gods" Northwest Smith Smith and his Venusian compatriot are employed to fetch back a certain substance from the Martian pole by a worshiper of Pharol, an Egyptianesque god. |
| Moorcock, Michael
"The Cairene Purse" 1990: Zenith 2, ed. David Garnett: London: Orbit 1995: Lunching with the Antichrist: a family history, 1925-2015, Michael Moorcock: Shingletown, California: Mark V. Ziesing 2001: London Bone, Michael Moorcock: London: Scribner 2002: London Bone, Michael Moorcock: New York: Simon & Schuster A man working on the Aswan High Dam searches for his sister, an Egyptologist, who disappeared while working at a newly-discovered pyramid. |
| Murray, Paul
"Anubis" 2003: Life's Like That/Granta 82, ed. Ian Jack |
| Price, E. Hoffman
Operation Isis 1987: New York: Del Rey The governor of North America and Mars goes in search of the Imperatrix of North America, who is being worshiped as a reincarnation of Isis. |
| Sheckley, Robert
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"Seven Soup Rivers" 1995: Galaxy 7 (2.1; January/February) (pp. 12-24) (illus. Vincent di Fate) In a world of fluid identities and locales, a traveler finds himself in a land of death which, despite his possession of a legal writ barring the approach of death, is perhaps not an illusion. |
| Smith, Cordwainer (= Linebarger, Paul)
"On the Gem Planet" Casher O'Neill 1966: Quest of the Three Worlds, Cordwainer Smith 1987: Quest of the Three Worlds, Cordwainer Smith A man from the planet Mizzer, where the Twelve Niles flow, encounters on another world a horse that expresses a desire to once again run on the sands of Mizzer. "On the Sand Planet" Casher O'Neill 1965: Amazing (December) 1966: Quest of the Three Worlds, Cordwainer Smith 1973: Thrilling Science Fiction 29 (February) 1987: Quest of the Three Worlds, Cordwainer Smith Quest of the Three Worlds Casher O'Neill 1966 1987 Fixup novel of "On the Gem Planet," "On the Storm Planet," and "On the Sand Planet." "Under Old Earth" 1966: Galaxy 24.3 (February)(pp. 6-48) (cover illus. Virgil Finlay) 1970: Under Old Earth and Other Explorations, Cordwainer Smith: London: Panther (pp. 53-92) 1971: Stardreamer, Cordwainer Smith: London: Beagle Books (pp. 39-91) 1972: Alpha, ed. Robert Silverberg: New York: Ballantine/Del Rey 1975: The Best of Cordwainer Smith, ed. J. J. Pierce: Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday 1975: The Best of Cordwainer Smith, ed. J. J. Pierce: New York: Ballantine 1993: The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith (pp. 289-325) |
| Strieber, Whitley
The Hunger Lilith's Dream: a tale of the vampire life The mother of all vampires, Lilith, first wife of Adam, waits in the Egyptian desert; a vampire-hunter is looking for her. Sequel to The Hunger. |
| Weldon, Fay
The Cloning of Joanna May 1989 1990 After her Egyptologist lover is murdered by her husband, the childless Joanna discovers that her husband and gynecologist might have created clones of her. |
| Williams, Tad
City of Golden Shadows Otherland 1 In a vast virtual reality where participants known as the Grail Brotherhood assume the appearances of Egyptian gods, a World War I soldier is the key to what the Brotherhood is seeking. Mountain of Black Glass Otherland 3 1999: DAW A terminally-ill teenage boy fights for his life in a virtual-reality Egypt, part of a vast network devised by the Grail Brotherhood. River of Blue Fire Otherland 2 1998: DAW |
| Woodcott, Keith (= Brunner, John)
The Martian Sphinx 1965: New York: Ace An expedition to Mars encounters a woman who says she must warn Earth of impending danger. |
| Zander, A. K.
The Number of Infinity 2003: 1st Books In 2012, researchers from the Smithsonian Institute and a Russian seek ancient Egyptian clues to earth's degraded weather patterns, while astronauts find a base on an asteroid with some connection to Egypt. |
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| Zelazny, Roger
Creatures of Light and Darkness 1968: Worlds of If: November (excerpt, as "Creatures of Light") 1969: Worlds of If: March (excerpt, as "Creatures of Darkness") 1969: New York: Doubleday 1970: London: Faber & Faber 1970: New York: Avon 1972: London: Arrow
This Immortal 1966: New York: Ace Hugo Award for Best Novel (co-winner with Frank Herbert's Dune; 1967) |
| Barnes, Steven
Lion's Blood Endeavour Award, 2003 Insh'Allah 1 2002: New York: Warner Aspect The New World was colonized from Africa and Vikings sell fellow whites as slaves to Africans. Predicated on Alexander the Great becoming pharaoh, Socrates escaping to Egypt, and Rome never flourishing to "civilize" Europe. Set in the nineteenth century. Zulu Heart Insh'Allah 2 2003: New York: Warner Aspect Sequel to Lion's Blood. |