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Mummy Stories

CONTENTS

Introduction —

Masque / by Ed Gorman —

Lot No. 249 / by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle —

Bones / by Donald A. Wollheim —

Monkeys / by E. F. Benson —

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Asleep on the job / by Scott Parson —

Remains to be seen / by Sharyn McCrumb —

The man in Crescent Terrace / by Seabury Quinn —

Some words with a mummy / by Edgar Allan Poe —

Beetles / by Tarleton Fiske —

The weekend magus / by Edward D. Hoch —

The curse of Amen-Ra / by Victor rousseau —

Mummy No. 50 / by D. R. Meredith —

The eyes of the mummy / by Robert Bloch —

Uncle Jack eats a mummy / by Alan Robbins.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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