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Fiction for Young Adults - Unclassified


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Abernathy, Robert
"Pyramid" - (6/04)
1954: Astounding Science Fiction (July)
1963: More Penguin Science Fiction, ed. Brian W. Aldiss: London: Penguin
1973: The Astounding-Analog Reader 2, ed. Harry Harrison & Brian W. Aldiss: New York: Doubleday
1974: Anthropology Through Science Fiction, ed. Carol Mason & Martin Harry Greenberg & Patricia Warrick: New York: St. Martin's
1974: The Penguin SF Omnibus, ed. Brian W. Aldiss: London: Penguin
    translations:
    Dutch:
    "Piramide" - (6/04)
    Fontein Science Fiction 3, ed. Brian W. Aldiss
  • Novelette. Egyptian pyramid?
Adams, E. C. - (3/04)
The Bow and the Sword: a romance set in the 6th century B.C. and of Eastern Lands
1893: Digby, Long & Co. (illus. Matthew Stretch)
  • Genre? YA or not?
Adler, David
The Prince of Egypt
    • The story of Moses. Picture book? Young adult? Adult novel?
Alexander, Victoria
 The Perfect Wife - (12/04)
1996
  • An older widow decides to go treasure-hunting in Egypt for Napoleon's lost gold.  A widower, whom she meets when their children become engaged, accompanies her for safety's sake. Any ancient treastures or tombs?
Allen, Willis Boyd
The Head of Pasht - (10/03)
1900: New York: Dutton
  • SF/F and/or mystery?
Alton, Robert
Moses and the Ten Commandments
    • sf?
Anonymous
"The Egyptian Thief" - (7/04)
1834: Tales for the Parlor; or, Records of Romance and Chivalry: New York: J.P. Peaslee
  • An ancient Egyptian thief? Or a thief of ancient objects?
Anonymous
"A Sphinx with No Secret" - (2/03)
1891: The Wave (November 21) (pp. 13-)
Anonymous (= Peacock, Lucy)
The Adventures of the Seven Princesses of Babylon - (10/03)
1785: London: T. Bensley
  • Any Egyptian episodes?
Anonymous (= Vahle, Joseph)
The Irish Prince and the Hebrew Prophet: a Masonic tale of the captive Jews and the Ark of the Covenant - (2/04)
1896: New York: Masonic Publishing Co.
Anthony, Piers & Hall, Frances
Pretender - (8/03)
1979: Borgo Press
1985: New York: Tom Doherty Associates/Tor
  • An alien takes up residence in a Babylonian boy. Any Egyptians?
Armstrong, Anthony (= Willis, George Anthony Armstrong)
The Heart of a Slave Girl
1922: London: Paul
  • Genre?
The Love of Prince Rameses
1921
  • Genre?
When the Nile Was Young: a Romance of the Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty
No Date: London: Hutchinson
  • Perhaps deals with Moses. Genre?
Austin, F. Britten
"Toward the Millennium: Isis of the Stone Age" - (2/03)
1928: The Saturday Evening Post 201.23 (December 8) (pp. 10-12) (illus. Charles Livingston Bull)
"A Saga of the Sea: Cleopatra at Actium" - (2/03)
1928: The Saturday Evening Post 200.41 (April 7) (pp. 24-25) (illus. Anton Otto Fischer)
"The Treasure of the Tombs" - (2/03)
1921: The Popular Magazine 60.6 (July 7) (pp. 177-190)
Bachman, Ingeborg
The Book of Franza - (4/03)
1999: The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldman, Ingeborg Bachman; ed. Peter Filkins: Chicago: Northwestern University Press
  • An Austrian woman fleeing a sadistic husband and her brother travel to the Egyptian desert, where she hopes to cleanse herself.  Set in the post-World War II years. A fragment of an incomplete novel. Do they travel to/through ancient sites?
Badham, Paul
Shadaroba et Lanis: a science fiction adventure novel - (8/02)
Stafford (UK): Papyrus Publishing
  • Set in modern Egypt; the actual existence of this novel, as a printed book or an e-book, is uncertain.
Balfour, Bruce
The Digital Dead - (3/04)
2003: New York: Ace
  • Sequel to The Forge of Mars; one of the characters, Kate, is an archaeologist specializing in Egypt, but is there any further Egyptian background to the story?
Barber, Noel
Sakkara - (12/03)
  • Mainstream/historical, set in 1919. Does the Step Pyramid (or ?) significantly enter the plot?
Bard, Allan
Cleopatra's Nights - (8/03)
1950: Dell Mapback
Barry, Léon
La dernière épousée d'Ammon [French: The Last Wife of Amun] - (5/04)
1908: L'édition d'art Piazza (illus. Paul Zenker)
1910: Paris: Alphonse Lemerre (illus. Paul Zenker)
  • Genre?
Baum, Frank L.
The Last Egyptian, A Romance of the Nile
1908: Edward Stern & Co.
  • Modern setting, fantasy elements. An aristrocratic Egyptian learns that his English father raped the young man's mother; he seeks revenge. Ancient elements?
Baxt, George
A Queer Kind of Umbrellae - (10/04)
1995: New York: Simon & Schuster
  • A mystery involving New York City homicide detective Pharaoh Love. Is there anything else pharaonic besides his name?
Beck, Kathleen
The Spirited Miss Caroline - (3/03)
1998: New York: Zebra Regency
  • The cousin of the rightful heir of the family ancestral home marries an American family that wants to "turn it into an Egyptian style palace." The current occupant, who once had an affair with one of the family members, attempts to drive them away with a haunting. Is the "Egyptian style palace" Egyptian revival?
Becker, Allienne R.
Eagle in Flight
Bedford-Jones, H. 
"The Daughter of Cleopatra" - (9/04)
1940: Blue Book (May)
"Pharaoh Figured Wrong" - (9/04)
1943: Short Stories (December 10)
  • Any connection with ancient Egypt, beyond the title?  "Strato-Shooters": is this a series title or a collection in which the story first appeared?
"Princess of Egypt" - (9/04)
1944: Blue Book (January)
1963: The Saint Detective Magazine 19.5 (November)
  • "Experiment 999": is this a series title or a collection in which the story first appeared?
"The Sphinx Strikes" - (6/03)
1935: Argosy (May 18)
"The Tomb of the Gods" - (6/03)
1931: Star Magazine 1.4 & 1.5 (February & March) (serial)
Bill, Edward Lyman
The Sword of the Pyramids: a story of many wars - (9/04)
1898: New York & London: Neely
Bingley, Margaret
Gateway to Hell - (12/04)
  • A child psychologist and her husband adopt two spoiled half-Egypian boys after their parents die in a car accident.  They almost seem to be one child in two bodies and have the ability to influence others' thoughts.  They were raised in Egypt -- any connection with gods, magic, etc.?
Black, Hermina
Dust of Egypt
1946: London: Robert Hale
The House with the Fountains - (7/04)
1951: London: Romance Book Club
  • Corinna Langley goes to Egypt to work as Professor Lediard's secretary. In Cairo, she meets the handsome Blake Ferguson. Any connection with ruins, antiquities, or archaeologists?
Blackwood, Algernon
"A Desert Episode" - (1/03)
1917: Day and Night Stories: London: Cassell
  • Life and death among sufferers of tuberculosis in Egypt. Ancient connection?
Bloch, Robert
"The Closer of the Way"
1977: Whispers, edited by Stuart David Schiff: Garden City, NY: Doubleday
  • This likely has something to do with the god Wepwawet ("Opener of the Way"), or an anti-Wepwawet. Setting?
Blond, Raven Simon
The Face of the Waters
1985
Bouhuys, Mies
The Long Journey - (9/02)
1969: New York: Paulist/Newman
  • The story of the Exodus. For children or YA?
Brackenbury, Rosalind
Into Egypt  - (3/04)
1973: Bristol, England: Barleyman Press
Bradley, Marion Zimmer
The Ruins of Isis
1979: New York: Pocket
  • Future excavation on a world called Isis/Cinderella, where women are dominant and men are slaves. Any Egyptian connection beyond the name?
Brennan, Thomas F.
Shade and Light, or Joseph of Egypt: A Type of Christ  - (3/04)
1875: New York & Cincinatti, Ohio: Frederick Pustet (illus.)
  • Fiction?
Buck, Mitchell S.
Afterglow - (12/02)
1924
1998: Tartarus Press
  • Stories set in Ptolemaic Egypt. Fantasy elements?
Burks, Arthur J.
The Great Amen  - (10/03)
1938: New York: Egmont Press
  • A man killed during the Great War returns to life and, by means of the radio and other media, gains enormous power. Does "Amen" refer to the Egyptian god?
Butler, Chris G.
"A Coffin in Egypt" - (12/02)
1973: Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (March)
Carew, Henry
The Secret of the Sphinx - (10/03)
1923: London: Hodder & Stoughton
  • SF/F.
Case, Justin
"White Star of Egypt"- (9/04)
1942: Spicy Adventure Stories (November)
Castle, Mort
"Buckeye Jim in Egypt"- (7/03)
Chambers, Robert W.
"The Swastika" - (4/02)
1905: Saturday Evening Post 177.1 (March 18) (pp. 1-4) (illus. Karl Anderson )
  • Fantasy in which a man spies on his nephew with a crystal ball and sends indication of his disapproval as the young man goes courting. May or may not relate to the cover illustration by J. C. Leyendecker, which shows a modern woman and two mummy cases.
Chase, Adam & Garrett, Randall (= Lesser, Miiton & Jorgensen, Ivar)
"Quest of the Golden Ape"- (7/03)
1957: Amazing Stories (serialized in 3 parts: January ff.)
Cheever, John
"It's Hot in Egypt" - (6/05)
1940: The New Yorker (January 6, 1940)
Conquest, Joan
Chastity:  a drama of the East - (11/03)
1929: Macaulay
  • Romance. Set in colonial Egypt and Arabia. Any visits to ancient Egyptian sites, etc.?
The Hawk of Egypt
1922
  • Romance.
Cox, Marian
"The Undying Dead - A Tale of Modern Egypt" - (12/02)
1965: Spangled Blood and Other Stories: New York: Vantage Press
Bede, Cuthbert (= Bradley, Edward)
"A Case of Mystery" - (12/02)
1855: Motley: London: James Blackwood
  • A body in a crate from Egypt -- any ancient connection?
King, C. Daly
(short story title?) - (2/03)
Trevis Tarrant
1935: The Curious Mr. Tarrant, C. Daly King: London: The Crime Club
1977: The Curious Mr. Tarrant, C. Daly King: New York: Dover
  • At least one of the stories in this collection of mystery tales involves an Egyptological element.
Da Due, Signore (pseudonymn, probably of two women writers, one of whom is possibly "Mrs. John White" and "Abdallah Simaika")
Nilus - (2/04)
Undated (1890s): London: Truslove & Shirley
  • A novel of modern Egypt, but is there any ancient connection?  Genre?
Daly, Carroll John
"The Egyptian Lure"
Race Williams
1928: Black Mask (March)
1996: Pulp Fictions: hardboiled stories, ed. Peter Haining: London: Souvenir Press
Davidson, Chris
Queen of Egypt - (7/03)
1969
  • Listed as a gay novel. Any connection with ancient Egypt?
Day, Clarence
"Father Has Trouble with the Land of Egypt" - (8/02)
1948: The Best of Clarence Day: New York: Alfred A. Knopf
Dickson, Martin
Children of the Gods - (11/02)
1960: Glasgow: William MacLellan
1972: London: New English Library
  • "In the classic mould of Tutankhamun." Fantasy. Setting?
Dreyer, Hans P.
The Secret of the Sphinx - (10/03)
1929: Kansas City, Missouri: Burton Publishing Co.
  • A lost race in the Himalayas, but is there any association with the Egyptian sphinx?
Ducornet, Rikki
(short story title?)- (2/03)
1997: The Word "Desire," Rikki Ducornet: New York: Henry Holt
  • This collection of erotic stories includes one set in Egypt. Ancient connection?
Dunnett, Dorothy
The Unicorn Hunt - (8/04)
1993: London: Michael Joseph Ltd
  • Nicholas and a young woman search for the boy who might be his son, as well as a missing shipment of African gold. One of the locations is Egypt; any ancient connection? Romance or historical?
Van Dyke, Henry
The Story of the Other Wise Man - (5/03)
1903: New York: Harper & Brothers
Eadie, Arlton
"The Scourge of Egypt" - (7/03)
1929: Weird Tales (October)
Edwards, Margaret Dulles
Child of the Sun
1939: Boston: Beacon Press
  • The story of Akhenaten from the age of ten until his death. Fiction? YA?
Eggers, Dave
(short story title?) - (12/04)
How We Are Hungry, Dave Eggers
  • Includes a story set in Egypt; any connection to antiquity?
Ehly, Ehren M. (= Ehly, Moreen)
Evil Eye - (3/04)
1989
  • The exorcism of an old man in Alexandria in 1919 unleashes a power that haunts an arrogant late 20th century American family. Any connection to the ancient past?
Eiger, Albin
Three Aegyptian Stories- (5/04)
1962: [Tasmania]: Wattle Grove Press (limited edition of 100)
Eldridge, Paul
And the Sphinx Spoke- (5/04)
1921: Boston: Stratford
  • Collection of short fantastical stories.
Falk, Lee & Davis, Phil
Mandrake the Magician- (10/03)
Mandrake
1935: Racine, Wisconsin: Big Little Book/Whitman Publishing
  • Occult fantasy. Begins in Egypt. Any ancient connection?
Farrell, James T.
"The Girls at the Sphinx" - (10/05)

1950: An American Dream Girl, James T. Farrell: New York: Vanguard Press
Faure, Monro
Watchman, What of the Dawn? - (3/03)
1924: London: Herbert Jenkins
  • The prophet Jeremiah sails to Ireland in 586 BC. Accompanying him are several others, including, by one description of the book, an Egyptian princess. According to others, however, he is accompanied by the two daughters of King Zedekiah.
Forrest, Steven
Stalking Anubis - (3/04)
2002: Seven Paws Press
  • Mystery; any fantasy component besides the involvement of an astrologer?
Francis, Robin
Scorn- (10/04)
1962: New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
  • The story of an evil and sadistic man. Set in modern Cairo, but do antiquities play any role?
Franck, Harry A.
"An Egyptian Lodging"- (6/03)
1927: Adventure Magazine: August 1
  • Fiction? Ancient connection?
Gaunt, Mary
The Mummy Moves - (12/03)
1910: London: T. W. Laurie
1925: New York: Clode
  • An Egyptian mummy comes to life. Fantasy or mystery?
Gideon, Robin - (2/03)
Viking Ecstasy
1993: New York: Zebra
  • In Denmark, a Viking warrior buys Tanaka, priestess of Opar, who was taken from an Egyptian sailing vessel. Is any of this supposed to have some pharaonic or Graeco-Roman connection?
Gill, Anton
The City of Lies - (8/02)
  • I have been unable to confirm the existence of the original (?) English-language edition of La Cité des mensonges, translated by Corine Derblum, 1996. This would be perhaps the fourth volume of the Egyptian Mysteries series, and is set in the reign of Ay.
Vaarao kättemaks - (8/02)
  • translation of ??
Pehme köide - (8/02)
  • translation of ??
Glick, Ruth & Buckholtz, Eilieen
The Golden Hawk - (8/02)
Charisma Inc. 5
1988: Pagent Books
Godard, Jocelyne
Les Thêbaines
Le Sêmaphore
Hatshepsut
Goldthrope, John
No Crown of Glory - (5/04)
1956: London: Longmans Green & Co. (illus. [dj] Ley Kenyon)
  • Set in Roman times, presumably involves Christ or his contemporaries.  Alleged in one source to also involve Egypt?
Goulart, Ron
The Curse of the Obelisk - (8/03)
Harry Challenge
1987: New York: Avon
  • Variously described as SF, fantasy, horror, humor, and/or mystery; allegedly set in Paris in 1897 and perhaps involves vampires.
Greenwood, Kelly
"I am Dying, Egypt, Dying" - (12/02)
1993: Crosstown Traffic, ed. Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden & Robert Hood: Five Islands Press
  • Mystery story; any ancient Egyptian connection?
Habicht, Victor Curt
Echnaton: novella [German] - (12/03)
1919: Hanover: Paul Steegemann
  • Genre?
Haldeman, Joe
"Giza" - (3/04)
2003: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (March)
  • SF/F. Any connection beyond the title?
Harden, Dan
"Pharaoh Had a Tomb" - (6/03)
1938: Argosy: July 9 (cover illus. Rudolph Belarski)
  • SF/F or thriller?
Harris, Elizabeth
Shadows in the Sand - (7/03)
  • In 1892 the wife of a British official disappears in Egypt. A century later, a female descendent investigates. Any ancient connection?
Harrison, Roy
Pharaohs Children - (7/04)
  • A romance novel, presumably set in ancient times. The apostrophe is missing from the title.
Harvey, Marion
Vengeance of the Ivory Skull - (7/03)
Graydon McKelvie mystery
1923: New York: Edward J. Clode
  • Set in Rio; is the skull Egyptian? (Title also seen spelled "Vengence")
Hastings, Michael
Veiled Isis - (3/04)
1980: London: Macdonald General Books
  • Thriller. Any connection to antiquity beyond the name?
Herbertson, Mallard
Led from Afar: A Story - (12/03)
1888: London: Remington and Co. (2 vols)
  • The hero, traveling in Egypt with a companion, is prompted to return home to England because of a vision in which his beloved is about to marry another man. The book opens at Thebes, but is there any other ancient connection?
Hillman, Manny
(short story title?) - (6/03)
2000: Travel Tales, Manny Hillman: Xlibris
  • Two vacationers in Egypt find a new way of reading hieroglyphs.
Howard, Robert E.
Skull Face- (7/04)
1929: Weird Tales (serialized, October-December)
  • The sorcerer Kathulos is a sort of Egyptian Fu Manchu; any connection with ancient times?
Hymers, John
Utter Death - (8/02)
1952: John Gifford
d'Ivoi, Paul (= Deleutre, Paul Charles Philippe Eric)
Le Capitaine Nilia [French] - (2/04)
Armand Lavarède
1898: Paris: Libraire Furne, Jouvet & Cie (illus. Metivet)
  • Science fiction. With the help of his cousin Robert and the Karrovarka, Armand fights to free Egypt from British control. Any involvement with antiquities or other ancient motifs?
Le Cousin de Lavarède  [French] - (2/04)
Armand Lavarède
  • 1897: Paris: Libraire Furne, Jouvet & Cie (illus. Metivet)
Jarvis, E. K.  (= Bloch, Robert)
"Before Egypt" - (6/03)
1957: Amazing Stories 31.1 (January)
Johns, W. E. (Captain)
Dr. Vane Answers the Call - (12/02)
translations:
  • French:
    • La Momie égyptienne- (12/02)
    1951: Paris: Les Presses de la Cité
Johnson, Oliver
Curse of the Pharaoh (No. 5)
1986: Mississauga, Ontario: Putnam Berkley
Julian, Philippe
Flight into Egypt: a fantasy (translated from the French) - (11/02)
1970: London: Elek
1970: New York: Viking
  • Listed as gay fiction -- any ancient Egyptian connection?
Juola, Tam
DOA: Egypt - A Comedy of Terrors - (3/04)
1990: Santa Barbara: Fithian Press
Karam, Bahia & Stefanos, Nassif & el-Din, Sursi Saad & Morcos, Hanna
Pharaonic Stories - (6/03)
No Date: Cairo: Dar Al Maaref (illus.)
Kelaing, Ethel Black
Desra of the Egyptians: a romance of the earlier centuries - (12/02)
1910: Indianapolis:  Wheeler & Kalb
Kelley, Thomas P.
The Last Pharaoh
1937: Weird Tales (serialized in 4 parts)
Kernahan, Mrs. Coulson
The Mummy's Hand - (12/03)
1933
  • Egyptian mummy? Fantasy? Mystery?
King, Thomas S.
The Mummy's Curse - (12/03)
1933
  • Egyptian mummy? Fantasy? Mystery?
Lalau, Maurice
Tabubu: roman égyptien - (12/02)
1932: Paris: Jules Meynial
  • Chromolithograph plates by J.-H. Rosny.  Called "one of the greatest books of the art deco period." (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America). Comprises 71 "compositions" by Lalau. Genre? Prose/poetry?
Lansdale, Joe R.
"The Princess"
1990
Le Blanc, Vincent
Les Voyages fameux du Seigneur Vincent Leblanc, marseillais qu'il a faits depuis l'âge de douze ans jusques à soixante, aux quatre parties du monde, à sçavoir : aux Indes orientales et occidentales, en Perse et Pégu, aux royaumes de Fez, de Maroc et de Guinée et dans toute l'Afrique intérieure, depuis le cap de Bonne espérance jusques en Alexandrie par les terres de Monomotapa, du prestre Jean et de l'Egypte, aux isles de la Méditerranée et aux principales provinces de L'Europe... le tout recueilli de ses mémoires par le Sr. Coulon - (2/04)
1648: Paris: G. Clousier
Lees, A. Blair
"The Silence of Israel Harding" - (2/04)
1899: Horner's Penny Stories (19 September) (London)
  • Egypt/mummies.  Genre?
"The Unwinding of the Coil"- (2/04)
1899: Horner's Penny Stories (19 September) (London)
  • Sequel to "The Silence of Israel Harding."  Egypt/mummies. Genre?
Le Guin, Ursula
"The Birthday of the World" - (7/03)
2002: The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, Ursula Le Guin
  • An Inka/Egyptian-influenced story, in which brother and sister marry to become, together, God; powerful foreigners intrude. Genre? Ancient or modern setting?
Leonis, Sheila
Maut: A Tale of Ancient Egypt
Undated: Rider & Co.
The Mystery of Iusa
1946: Christchurch, New Zealand
Leonis, Sheila A.
A Thread in the Maze
No Date: London: Rider
  • Mystical or occult novel set in ancient times. Egypt?
Levi, Jonathan
A Guide for the Perplexed - (1/04)
1993: Vintage Books International
1995: Random House Value
Levinger, Elma Ehrlich
"Playmates in Egypt" - (8/03)
1920: Playmates in Egypt and Other Stories, Elma Ehrlich Levinger: Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society
Lindsay, David
Sphinx
1923
  • Fantasy; Egyptian or Greek sphinx? (Or perhaps no real sphinx at all?)
Lindsey, Davis
One Virgin Too Many
Marcus Didius Falcon Mystery
2000: New York: Mysterious Press
  • An Egyptian connection in this Roman mystery?
Lortz, Richard
Lovers Living, Lovers Dead - (3/04)
1977: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
  • A man struggles with his increasingly schizophrenic wife. Among the things she imagines herself to be is a pregnant Egyptian queen. Genre? (Unsure if there are genuinely fantastical horror elements.)
Lowerys, Lynn
Moonflower - (6/04)
1984: New York: Bantam
  • Romance.  Victorian-era Egypt?
Lummus, Aaron
The Life and Adventures of Dr. Caleb; Who Migrated from Egypt, and Afterwards Practiced Physic in the Land of Canaan and Elsewhere: An Allegory - (8/02)
1822: Boston: Lincoln & Edmands
MacDonald, Marianne
Ghost Walk - (1/03)
Dido Hoare 2
1998: St. Martins Press
  • After giving Dido, an antiquarian bookseller, a trinket in thanks for some help she rendered him, an elderly World War II veteran who served in Egypt is murdered. Is the trinket, or anything else in the book, of ancient Egyptian origin?
Mahfouz, Naguib
The Dreams (translated from the Arabic by Raymond Stock)
2004: Cairo: American University in Cairo Press
  • Among the short stories in this collection are one in which occurs a modern parallel to the revenge of Queen Nitocris and another in which a girl flies up to the heavens above the Great Pyramid. Possibly others are relevent to the list. Titles? Genres?
Manchester, William
Beard the Lion- (9/04)
1956:  London: Cassell
1959 (as Cairo Intrigue)
  • An American businessman finds himself at the center of a murder plot.  Any connection to ancient sites or artifacts?
Mandelstam, Osip  (v. sp. Mandeshtam)
"Yegipetskaya marka" [Russian] - (2/04)
1928
translations:
English:
"The Egyptian Stamp"- (2/04)
Mansell, Joanna
Egyptian Nights - (10/02)
    Harlequin
    • Romance novel. A woman accompanying a group of schoolgirls on a trip to Egypt meets romance. Any tours of the ancient sites?
The Third Kiss - (12/02)
1989: New York: Harlequin Presents
  • Set in Egypt?  Any visits to ruins, etc.?
Maréchal, Pierre-Sylvain
Voyages de Pythagore en Egypte, dans la Chaldée dans l'Inde, en Crète, à Sparte, en Sicile, à Rome, à Carthage, à Marseille et dans les Gaules, suivis de ses lois politiques et morales[French] - (7/04)
1798-1799: Paris: Derterville (6 vols.)
  • A utopian novel.
Marton, Sandra
Egyptian Nights - (7/03)
Harlequin
  • Romance novel.
McCoy, Gayle
Nefretiti, Woman Pharaoh
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich
Messiia [Russian]
2000: Sankt-Peterburg: Izd-vo Ivana Limbakha
  • A novel of Tutankhamen -- fantasy or historical?
Millard, Joseph J.
"Master of the Walking Dead" - (8/03)
1939: Thrilling Mystery (November)
  • Any fantasy/horror elements in this detective yarn? Cover story for this issue, showing the fedora-clad hero and his associates coming up steps, at the top of which is a mummy (his eyes, bit of his face and hands looking very much alive), who, having emerged from a Tutesque mummy case, has grabbed and is injecting something into a blonde woman in a red dress.
Miller, Irene
Sekhet
1912
Mitchell, Gladys
The Crozier Pharaohs - (11/04)
  • Mystery involving two sisters who raise pharaoh hounds. Do they make any substantial Egyptian connection?
Moorcock, Michael
(short story title?) - (6/03)
1995: Fabulous Harbors, Michael Moorcock: New York: Avon
  • A man finds forgotten Egyptian temples and gods.
Moore, Doraine
A Dream and a Promise
  • The story of Joseph and his brothers. YA or younger?
Morlan, A. R.
The Amulet - (9/03)
Ewerton WI series 1
1991: New York: Bantam
  • Three generations after a cursed amulet was taken from its hiding place during World War II, it brings death to a town in Wisconsin. Is the amulet from Egypt?
Moscatelli, Jean
"Akhenaten, ou la religion la meilleure"[French] - (12/03)
Carrefour
1936: Akhenaten, ou la religion la meilleure, Jean Moscatelli: Cairo: Paul Barbey
  • Genre?
Newby, P. H.
Kith - (11/03)
1977: Boston: Little, Brown
  • One listing describes a character "obsessed with P.G. Wodehouse and golf." Any connection with ancient sites in this or any of his other Egyptian-set novels?
The Picnic at Sakkara
1955: Cape
  • Does the Step Pyramid play any significant role in the story?
Newcomb, Thomas
Janissa: A Novel of Egypt and Palestine
1943: Destiny Publishers
  • Ancient?
Noelli, Lisa
A Summer's Day - (9/05)
2005
  • Regency romance in which "Nefret, a most unusual feline of Egyptian pedigree" has a litter by an ugly tomcat. The real romance is betewen Nefret's owner and the governess of his children. Any ancient connection beyond the name of the cat?
Norton, Andre
"Three-Inch Trouble" - (6/04)
2001:  A Constellation of Cats, ed. Denis Little: New York: DAW
  • A cat witnesses trouble aboard the Free Trader ship Horus; any Egyptian connection besides the name of the ship?
O'Banyon, Constance
Desert Song - (7/04)
  • Romance. Mallory falls in love with a fellow passenger, who is traveling to rescue his father from a prison in the Egyptian desert. Any connection to ruins?
O'Flanagan, Sheila
Caroline's Sister - (1/04)
1999
  • Two sisters ruin each other's lives and try to become best friends. Part takes place in Egypt.
Oleson, Lance
"Egyptian Hyperspace, Although" - (6/03)
1994: Scherzi, I Believe, Lance Oleson: La Grande, Oregon: Wordcraft of Oregon
Oliver, Martin
"Pharaoh Frowns" - (12/04)
1932: Film Weekly (3 June)
Pack, Janet
"Praxis" - (6/04)
2001:  A Constellation of Cats, ed. Denis Little: New York: DAW
  • A cat accompanies an astrologer named Lucien into Athens, where astrology is mistrusted. One description of this story indicates that astrology is an "Egyptian art."
Pelevin, Victor
Omon Ra (translated from Russian) - (2/04)
1993 Russian Booker Prize for short fiction
1996: New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux
  • The code name of Soviet cosmonaut Omon Krizomazov mimics that of the Egyptian god. He is sent on what he discovers is essentially a suicide mission to the moon. Satirical novel. Is there any play on Egyptian motifs beyond his code name?
Pemberton, Clive
"The Bulb" - (12/03)
1906: The Weird o' It, Clive Pemberton: Henry J. Drane
2000: The Weird o' It, Clive Pemberton: Seattle: Midnight House (intro. John Pelan; edition limited to 460)
  • Said to be a mummy story -- an Egyptian mummy?
Pembroke, Roland
"The Boy from Egypt" - (8/03)
1925: The Champion Annual: a monster adventure story book for readers of all ages
Penicher, Louis
(short story title?) - (4/03)
1699: Traité des embaumemments selon les anciens et les modernes: Paris: B. Girin
  • "The earliest known fictional short story about a mummy's curse was published in 1699" -- John Richard Stephens, "The Truth about the Mummy's Curse," Into the Mummy's Tomb (New York, 2001), p. 5.
Perreau, Jean-André
Mizrim ou le sage à la cour, histoire égyptienne [French]  - (12/03)
1782: Neuchâtel: Impr. de la Société typographique
  • Seen in a list of utopian works. Is it a novel or a purported history of Egypt?
Pettee, Florence M.
The Palgrave Mummy  - (12/03)
1929: New York: Payson
1929: New York: Jacobsen Publishing Co.
  • Mystery novel, perhaps with fantastic/supernatural elements, but not listed in Bleiler's Guide to Supernatural Fiction.
Puskin, Alexander
"Egipetskie nochi" - (8/03)
1835
    translations:
    English: (T. Keane)
    "Egyptian Nights" - (8/03)
    1914: The Prose Tales of Alexander Poushkin: G. Bell and Sons
  • Cleopatra. Historical or...?
Prescott, E. Livingston
Illusion: a romance of modern Egypt - (8/03)
1899: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Limited
  • Said to be not really fantasy. Involves drugs. Any ancient connection?
Prose, Francine
(short story title?) - (2/03)
1998: The Peaceable Kingdom: stories, Francine Prose: Owl
  • "A woman looks back on the school field trip in which she recognized in the friezes of an Egyptian tomb exhibit the inevitable direction her life would tale." Mainstream or fantasy?
Quinn, Seabury
"Body and Soul" - (2/03)
de Grandin
1928: Weird Tales
1971: Horrors Unknown, ed. Sam Moskowitz: New York: Walker & Co.
  • Transfer of the soul of an executed murder into a mummy. Egyptian mummy?
Rathborne, St. George
Masked in Mystery: A Romantic Story of Adventure Under Egyptian Skies - (4/03)
1897: The Hobart Company
Reynolds, Mack & Ing, Dean
Eternity
    • sf/f?
Rhodes, Kathleen
The Valley of Enchantment- (2/04)
1928: London: Hutchinson
Roberts, C. E. Bechhofer
(title?)- (6/03)
1929
  • Set during the time of Joseph.
Roberts, Ursula
I Knew Moses - (3/03)
1973: London: Psychic Press
1973: New York:  Psychics Press
    Tek-sek, an Egyptian scribe, describes Moses at the court of Pharaoh, via the mediumship of Roberts. Is this presented as a novel or as a "biography"?
Robeson, Kenneth
Resurrection Day - (12/02)
Doc Savage
translations:
  • French:
    • La trahison de la momie - (12/02)
    Doc Savage
      1972: Belgium: Marabout
Robinson, Lynda S.
Das Auge des Pharao [German] - (8/02)
    • translation of ?
Der Spion des Pharao [German] - (8/02)
2000
  • translation of ?
Royce, Kenneth
Bones in the Sand- (2/05)
1967: London: Cassell
  • Mystery novel set in Egypt; any connection with antiquity?
Rushby, Pam
The King of Egypt- (7/04)
2000 (illus. Diana Rigby Platt)
  • Genre? Children's or YA book?
Russell, Eric Frank
"Egyptian Episode" - (2/03)
1938: Master Thriller Series 21
Ryman, Geoff
"Family, or The Nativity and Flight into Egypt considered as episodes of I Love Lucy" - (7/03)
1998: Interzone (January)
  • Is there sufficient inclusion of any Egyptian material (i.e. reaching Egypt)?
Sanburg, Carl
"A Girl Named Silver Pitchers Tells a Story About Egypt, Jesse James and Spanish Onions" - (7/03)
1993: More Rotabagas Stories, Carl Sanburg New York: Alfred A. Knopf: (illus. Paul O. Zelinsky)
Schiller, Friedrich
Der Geisterseher - (7/03)
1788-1789
  • A novel of the life of Count Cagliostro, who may have visited Egypt and who founded the Mère Loge d'Adoption de la Haute Maconnére Égyptienne in Paris. Does it deal with these or other Egyptian-related details of his life?
La Serre
Amosis, prince égyptien - (12/02)
1728
  • Prose? Historical?
Shear, Helen Cornwell
The Island of Truth - (2/04)
1985: New York: Alfred
Simpson, Patricia
"Lord of the Nile" - (12/02)
Purrfect Love
  • Paranormal romance. Setting?
Smith, Mrs. Chetwood
"An Egyptian Lotus"
1924: Weird Tales 4.2 (May/June/July)
Sole, Robert

The Photographer's Wife - (12/05)
1998
Set in 1890s century Egypt and Sudan. Any connection to ancient sites?
Spiess, Christian Heinrich
Geheimnisse der Alten Egypzier - (8/03)
1798-1799 (?): Leipzig(?) (also seen spelled Geheimnisse der Alten Egipzier)
  • In it "'the irresistible longing for Egypt' is said to be the leitmotiv." -- Erik Iversen, The Myth of Egypt and Its Hieroglyphs, p. 122. Fiction? Genre?
Spunda, Franz
Das aegyptische Totenbuch: ein nekromantischer Roman [German: The Egyptian Book of the Dead] - (12/03)
1924
  • A fantasy of some description, setting unknown. Is this a prose novel, or is it in poetic form?
Stapledon, Olaf
Odd John: a story between jest and earnest - (2/04)
1936: New York: E. P. Dutton
  • A telepath seeks out others. Egypt is among the places he finds a fellow "superman." Is there any connection with antiquity?
Starr, Jane
Eve in Egypt - (12/02)
1929: Geoffrey Bles
  • An illustrated romantic novel/travelogue. Presumably includes visits to ancient sites?
Stephens, Jennifer
Vengeance of the Cat Goddess
1973: New York: Avon
  • Egyptian cat goddess?
Stern, Susan
Desert Nights
1991: Mississauga, Ontario: Putnam Berkley
  • Romance. Egyptian connection?
Stevens, Kristy Jane - (3/04)
Forced into Frillies
1988: (England): TMC Publications (illus.)
  • During the Civil War, for the sake of a Confederate spy mission, a young drummer boy is transformed into a woman by a mysterious Egyptian doctor. Erotic novel. Does the doctor employ any reportedly "ancient" techniques?
Stiles, George K.
The Dragoman - (5/04)
1913: Harper and Brothers
  • Set in 19th century Egypt.  Ancient sites or artifacts?
Strieber, Whitley
Lilith's Dream:  a tale of the vampire life - (7/03)
  • 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. Pharaonic connection?
Sugden, J. Harry
The Sphinx-Like Head - (7/03)
1896: London: Brown & Sons
  • Warring islanders. Anything more Egyptian than the "sphinx-like head" of the title?
Tanaka, Fumio
Makyo no Tsutankhamen [Japanese]
1988: Tokyo:  Tokuma Shoten
  • Tutankhamen.  (ISBN 419153775X) historical? YA novel?
Tendryakov, Vladimir
Suidaniye Nefertiti [Russian: "Rendezvous with Nefertiti"] - (9/07)
1965: Moscow, USSR: Molodaya Gvardiya
Thorne, Guy
The Eye of Pharaoh - (6/03)
1924: Ward & Lock
Tibbett, A. C. S.
"Binkie"- (2/03)
1933: Nightmares: a collection of uneasy tales, ed. anonymous: London: Philip Allan
  • A mummified cat as protector. Set in India, but is the mummy Egyptian?
Tripp, Miles
The Claws of God - (5/03)
1972: London: Macmillan
1975: London: New English Library
  • Adventure novel set in the vicinity of Aswan. Any connection to ancient Egypt?
Vaughan, Agnes Carr
Akka, Dwarf of Syracuse - (6/04)
1940: New York: Longmans, Green and Co.
  • Historical novel.
Voltaire, F. A. M. de
The Princess of Babylon - (3/03)
1928: Art Study Press  (trans./French Robert Milton Collyer) (ill. Lui Trugo) (ltd. ed. 750)
  • An oracle has decreed that noblemen must seek the hand of Formosante. Among the suitors who pursues the princess in her travels is the King of Egypt. Is this a pharaonic king?
Weigall, Arthur
"The Home Life of a Holy Cat" - (2/03)
1992: Best Cat Stories, ed. Lesley O'Mara: New York: Wings/Random House
  • Is this fiction (fantasy?) or an essay about Egyptologist Wiegall's own pet?
Whitehouse, Florence Brooks
The God of Things: a novel of modern Egypt - (3/04)
1902: Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Whittemore, Edward
Nile Shadows
The Jerusalem Quartet 3
  • Any connection with antiquity?
Williams, Jeff
The Unknown Priestess
1998: Ozark Publishing
  • Young adult novel? Children's book? fantasy? adventure?
Williamson, William H.
The Panther Skin - (12/03)
1919: Hanover: Paul Steegemann
    • Amarna Period. Genre?
Willis, Anthony
When the Nile Was Young
  • sf/f?
Yerxa, Leroy
"The Spirit of Egypt"* - (12/02)
1943: Amazing Stories 17.8 (August)
Zarate, Stella G.
Woman of Egypt
1975: New York: Vantage Press
Author?
L'Agent de Pharaon [French]
Author?
"I Am Dead, Egypt, Dead!"
Eerie 35
  • Ancient Egypt? Genre?
Author?
Supernatural Thrillers Featuring The Living Mummy- (8/04)
1974
Author?
(novel title?)
1960s or earlier
  • A lost race descended from the ancient Egyptians is found living beneath the sea. The protagonist and his Egyptian servant attempt to free them.
Author?
(short story title?)*- (4/02)
1911: American Boy (May)
  • The cover of this issue by W. W. Clarke shows an Egyptian boy painting a vase that is set on a pedestal. There might be an associated story in the issue.
Author?
(short story title?)- (9/07)
1929: The Crime Omnibus, ed. Dorothy L. Sayers: New York:
Author?
(short story title?) - (8/03)
1933: Dime Detective (July 15)
  • The cover of this issue shows the caped villain about to close an upright mummy case which is containing a bound man as a bound woman watches in horror. The inside of the lid is studded with spikes. Could be either "Torture Tavern" by T. T. Flynn or "The Death Lady" by Ralph Oppenheim.
Author?
(short story title?) - (6/04)
1943: Dime Mystery Magazine (January)
  • Cover illustration features a red-haird damsel-in-distress leaning over a sarcophagus, from which a badly-decayed mummy begins to raise himself, dagger about to strike.
Author?
(short story title?) - (7/03)
1949: New Detective (July)
  • The cover of this issue shows a woman being held captive by a balding man who has stepped out of a Tutesque mummy case.
Author?
(short story title?)*
1994: Tombs, edited by Peter Crowther & Edward E. Cramer: White Wolf
  • Reported to be at least one Egyptian-based story in this anthology.
Author?
(short story title?)*- (11/03)
1999: Legends: Tales from the Eternal Archives 1, ed. Margaret Weis: New York: DAW
  • Khafre decides to memorialize one of the gods in stone, but the question is, which one should be so honored?
Flights of Fantasy: Arabic Short Stories
edited by Ceza Kassem & Malak Hashem
1985: Cairo: Elias Modern Publishing House
  • Do any of the stories involve an ancient Egyptian element?  Some of the stories are: "Delusion" by Yusuf Idris (1969), "A Man and A Shadow" by Najib Mahfuz (1979), "The Burrow" by Shafiq Magar (1970), "The Green Tree" by Zakariyya Tumir (1970), "My World of the Unknown" by Alifa Rifa'at (1974), "The Story of the Severed Head" by Muhammad Barrada (1979), "The Blue Bead and the Return of Jubayna" by Emile Habibi (1969)
High Adventure: Tales of Exploration, Escape, and Intrigue - (3/03)
ed. Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai
1992: Barnes & Noble
  • Includes a story (probably already listed in AEF) set in an Egyptian pyramid.
The Massachusetts Review: Egypt- (5/04)
2001-2002 (Winter)
  • Poetry/fiction/nonfiction on the theme of Egypt.
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Ancient Egypt in Fiction Introduction
What the AEF is and how to help.

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Author List Introduction

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Author List A-F

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Author List G-L

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Author List M-R

Ancient Egypt in Fiction Author List S-Z
The Author Lists are complete listings of every novel and story in the bibliography, alphabetically by author, with links to each work in the category pages.

Category and Sub-Category Index

Ancient Egypt in Fiction for Young Adults
Princes, princesses, peasants; mummies, magic cats, and young archaeologists. Stories published for middle-grade and young adult readers, but people of most any age will find something they like here.

Ancient Egypt in Science Fiction & Fantasy
From time travel to sword & sorcery, from aliens to alternate history, and everything in between.

Ancient Egypt in Historical & Mainstream Fiction
The Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and Napoleon, too:  scholarly research optional but magic checked at the door.

Ancient Egypt in Biblical Fiction
From Joseph to the Flight into Egypt.

Ancient Egypt in Mysteries & Thrillers
  Pharaohs are assassinated, Egyptologists murdered, treasures lost. Whodunnit? In ancient times and modern, there is always a sleuth near at hand.

Ancient Egypt in Romances & Erotica
Obstacles to true love, and the means to overcome them -- by willpower or a little bit of magic -- are older than the pyramids! (Some titles are suitable for adults only.)

Ancient Egypt in Fiction for Children
Picture books and easy readers for budding Egyptophiles.