RETURN FROM THE DEAD

A collection of Mummy stories selected and introduced by David StuartDavies Beware, the Dead are coming back! This is a unique and fascinatingcollection of early mummy stories that helped to establish the chillingconcept of the Dead returning to life as a potent sub-genre of horrorfiction. The main feature on the mummy bill, The Jewel of the Seven Starsby Bram Stoker, is generally regarded as his best work after Dracula. Aweird mixture of adventure, the supernatural and science fiction is foundin Jane Webb's The Mummy, a tale written in 1827 but set in 2126. SomeWords with a Mummy is by the great horror writer Edgar Allen Poe. ArthurConan Doyle's The Ring of Thoth is the classic mummy tale and was thebasis for the 1932 movie 'The Mummy' starring Boris Karloff and, indeedmost mummy films ever since. Lot 249, another Doyle chiller, completesthis collection, which is guaranteed to entertain and possibly prompt anightmare.