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The Mammoth Book Of the Mummy: 19 tales of the immortal dead by Kage Baker, Gail Carriger, Karen Joy Fowler, Joe R. Lansdale, Kim Newman and many more (Mammoth Books) Paperback – 12 Jan. 2017

by Paula Guran (Author)
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Human mummies, preserved by both accident and intent, have been found on every continent except Antarctica. These enigmatic remains of humanity have fascinated people for centuries. Shrouded in history they have acquired meaning and symbolism quite separate from their value as a source of historic knowledge, inspiring tales of reanimation, reincarnation, loves that outlive death, and curses that bring vengeance from the past.

As a figure of horror and the supernatural the mummy has attained iconic status in the popular imagination. The Mammoth Book of the Mummy presents a collection of tales written for the twenty-first century - including some brand-new stories - that explore, subvert and reinvent the mummy mythos; some delve into the past, others explore alternative histories, and some bring mummies into our own world.

Here you will find stories of revenge, romance, monsters and mayhem, ranging freely across time periods, genres and styles, by Kage Baker, Gail Carriger, Paul Cornell, Carole Nelson Douglas, Terry Dowling, Noreen Doyle, Steve Duffy, Karen Joy Fowler, Will Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, John Langan, Joe R. Lansdale, Helen Marshall, Kim Newman, Norman Partridge, Adam Roberts, Robert Sharp, Angela Slatter, Keith Taylor and Lois Tilton.

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    560 pages
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    12 Jan. 2017
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    978-1472120298
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The mummy lives!

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Robinson
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 12 Jan. 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472120299
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472120298
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 728 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 23.4 x 4.3 x 15.7 cm
  • Best Sellers Rank: 2,702,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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  1. Angela Slatter

    Angela Slatter

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    Angela Slatter (also writing as A.G. Slatter) is the author of the gothic fantasy novels All the Murmuring Bones and forthcoming The Path of Thorns (Titan Books), and the supernatural crime novels Vigil, Corpselight and Restoration (Jo Fletcher Books). She’s also written eleven short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories, and the novellas, Of Sorrow and Such and Ripper.

    Vigil was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 2018, and Angela has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, two Australian Shadows Award and seven Aurealis Awards. All the Murmuring Bones was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards’ Book of the Year in 2021.

    Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian, Italian,

    Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian, Turkish, French and Romanian. Film rights have been optioned for her novelette “Finnegan’s Field”.

    She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth. She has been awarded career development funding by Arts Queensland, the Copyright Agency and the Australia Council for the Arts.

    Awards

    2020 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collection: The Heart Is A Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories

    2020 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Heart Is A Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories

    2017 Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel: Corpselight

    2016 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: A Feast of Sorrows: Stories

    2015 Ditmar Award for Best Novella: Of Sorrow and Such

    2014 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings

    2014 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Female Factory, co-authored with Lisa L. Hannett

    2014 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story: “Home and Hearth”

    2014 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls”

    2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story: “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter”

    2010 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales

    2010 Aurealis Award Best Fantasy Short Story: “The February Dragon”, co-authored with Lisa Hannett

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    G. L. Carriger

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    Gail Carriger writes comedies of manners mixed with paranormal romance (and sexy urban fantasy as G.L. Carriger). Her steampunk books include the Parasol Protectorate, Custard Protocol, Supernatural Society, and Delightfully Deadly series for adults, and the Finishing School series for young adults. She is published in many languages and has over a dozen NYT bestsellers. She was once an archaeologist and is overly fond of shoes, octopuses, and tea.

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    Gail Carriger writes comedies of manners mixed with paranormal romance (and sexy urban fantasy as G. L. Carriger). Her steampunk books include the Parasol Protectorate, Custard Protocol, Supernatural Society, and Delightfully Deadly series for adults, and the Finishing School series for young adults. She is published in many languages and has over a dozen NYT bestsellers. She was once an archaeologist and is overly fond of shoes, octopuses, and tea. gailcarriger.com

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  • takerbobpooh
    3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 April 2018
    This book was not what I was expecting but it i thoroughly enjoyed it. A collection of Mummy stories but more aimed at archeology/Egyptian style mummies rather than the ones you will see in films. A fantastic read.
    Thanks to netgalley for letting me read this.
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  • John P. Irish
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection of recent mummy stories
    Reviewed in the United States on 15 July 2017
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    Great collection of recent mummy stories. If you are looking for a collection of classic mummy stories, try this book: A Mummy Omnibus: 1820s - 1920s (Gothic Library Editions).
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  • Perceptive Reader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the Best Mummy-themed anthology available right now.
    Reviewed in India on 10 December 2017
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    Anthologies are tricky beasts, as every editor would readily admit.
    If you succeed in taming all of them into their designated or lucky positions, you get a wonderful read, maybe occasionally marred by a few drab or boring works, which one may simply choose to overlook.
    On the other hand, if the editor was being driven by a pompous choice or his/her (God forbid!) ideology while making the selections, the hapless reader is bound to get a very-very raw deal.
    I have had both. A lot.
    Fortunately, Paula Guran belongs to that very select group of editors who read a lot, and try to provide the readers with actually readable stories, rather than ideologically tilted or otherwise nonsense. This book also didn’t frustrate.
    What have we got here?
    (*) “Introduction: My Mouth Has Been Given to Me That I May Speak” by Paula Guran: A lovely piece that gives a succinct overview of Mummy Literature in English literature, with special emphasis on various thematically oriented anthologies on the subject.
    1. “Private Grave 9” by Karen Joy Fowler: A strangely poetic story told against the backdrop of emotions, hysteria, and history. Good, but wouldn’t read it again.
    2. “The Good Shabti” by Robert Sharp: A tight story that presented two timelines in a thrilling format, making it simultaneously a science fictional work and a murder mystery full of intrigue. Very Good.
    3. “Egyptian Revival” by Angela Slatter: A..W..E..S..O..M..E! I mean, if I try to say anything more, I would probably ruin it.
    4. “The Queen in Yellow” by Kage Baker: You know, I truly hadn’t read any ‘Company’ story before I had read this one! But WHAT a way to begin that journey! Please savour this wonderful story, and DON’T rush.
    5. “On Skua Island” by John Langan: I have had the privilege of reading this story in Langan’s seminal collection, and it succeeded in utterly terrifying me, again, with its erudite & precise prose, and strangely vivid portrayal of … No, you HAVE TO read this absolutely gem of a story to appreciate it, without wasting time over my piece.
    6. “Ramesses on the Frontier” by Paul Cornell: I kept trying to fit this story into one of those convenient pigeonholes like comedy, farce, political peace, surrealism, etc., and utterly failed. An unconventional piece, and as good (and as un-re-readable) as the first story.
    7. “The Shaddowwes Box” by Terry Dowling: Ah! This was a satisfyingly chilling piece, written in beautiful & ornate prose befitting a modern master in nuanced horror. Very Good.
    8. “Egyptian Avenue” by Kim Newman: This story was also an old friend, whom I had come across in Newman’s brilliant Diogenes Club collections. Very Very Good.
    9. “The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn’t, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar” by Gail Carriger: A brilliant prequel, as well as totally mouth-watering appetizer for the Parasol Protectorate series, this story is one of the high points of this already immensely enjoyable collection.
    10. “The Night Comes On” by Steve Duffy: Once upon a time, Steve Duffy used to give us such classic ‘Jamesian’ horrors, but then he abandoned those ways! What a loss that has been can be understood only after reading this book.
    11. “American Mummy” by Stephen Graham Jones: A dud.
    12. “Bubba-Ho-Tep” by Joe R. Lansdale: Elicited a few chuckles, but nothing like it was supposed to happen, according to all the blown up hyperventilated praise showered upon this piece by faithful Lansdalophiles.
    13. “Fruit of the Tomb: A Midnight Louie Past Life Adventure” by Carole Nelson Douglas: An absolute stunner! And it’s all the more enjoyable if you are a cat-lover.
    14. “The Chapter of Coming Forth by Night” by Lois Tilton & Noreen Doyle: Very Good. Not as good as some of the dazzling & meta pieces mentioned above, but very good nevertheless.
    15. “The Mummy’s Heart” by Norman Partridge: Crap. Somehow, this overhyped author has succeeded in scattering only drivel across every anthology bearing his name, and yet he keeps getting awards like one gets mosquitoes in our parts! Perhaps he employs a Lot No. 249 type Mummy to do his bidding just before awards are announced. Who knows!
    16. “The Emerald Scarab” by Keith Taylor: Very Good. It succeeded in making me interested in the entire ‘Servant of the Jackal God’ collection.
    17. “The Embalmer” by Helen Marshall: Rot.
    18. “Tollund” by Adam Roberts: Brilliant. This is a story that truly deserves repeat readings just to get hold of all its alternate-world glory.
    19. “Three Memories of Death” by Will Hill: A beautiful, heart-wrenching, and totally non-genre yet utterly riveting story of mortality & feelings.

    In short, when you have only three duds, and one or two sub-par stories, while majority of them beckons you to read them again & again, is there any reason to be miserly in starring the review?

    Highly Recommended.
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  • patterson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on 14 June 2017
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    An excellent collection!
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  • Arindam Basu
    3.0 out of 5 stars A let down
    Reviewed in India on 4 July 2025
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    I am really disappointed with the contents. The book is the collection of some drab, slow-paced and monotonous tales. Yet, those who like history, may prefer some of them.
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