THE MUMMY MEGAPACK
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COPYRIGHT INFO
The Mummy Megapack is copyright © 2012 by Wildside Press LLC. All rights reserved. For more information, contact the publisher.
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“Sympathy for Mummies,” by John Gregory Betancourt, originally appeared in Horrors! 365 Scary Stories (1998). Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Some Words with a Mummy,” by Edgar Allan Poe, originally appeared in American Review: A Whig Journal, April 1845.
“The Power of Waking,” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman originally appeared in The Many Faces of Van Helsing. Copyright © 2004 by Nina Kirki Hoffman. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Mummy’s Foot,” by Jessie Adelaide Middleton, originally appeared in The Grey Ghost Book (1912).
“Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy’s Curse,” by Louisa May Alcott, was originally published in 1869.
“The Ring of Thoth,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally appeared in The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (1890).
“The Green God,” by William Call Spencer, originally appeared in All-Story magazine, October 28, 1916.
“The Book of Thoth,” by Lafcadio Hearn, is taken from Stray Leaves from Strange Literature, published in 1884.
“Lot No. 249,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally appeared in The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (1890).
“The Mummy’s Foot,” by Théophile Gautier, first appeared in this translation by Lafcadio Hearn in 1908.
“The Story of Baelbrow,” by E. and H. Heron, originally appeared in Pearson’s Monthly Magazine, April 1898.
“A Professor of Egyptology,” by Guy Boothby originally appeared in 1904.
“My New Year’s Eve Among the Mummies,” by Grant Allen, originally appeared in 1880.
“Whatever Was Forgotten,” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, originally appeared in Pharaoh Fantastic. Copyright © 2002 by Nini Kiriki Hoffmann. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Forsaken Temple,” by C. W. Leadbeater, originally appeared in The Perfume of Egypt and Other Weird Stories (1911).
“The Doom of Al Zameri,” by Henry Iliowizi, originally appeared in The Weird Orient: Nine Mystic Tales (1900).
“The Romance of a Mummy,” by Théophile Gautier, originally appeared 1858.
“Obsession, Possession,” by Elliott O’Donnell, originally appeared in Byways of Ghost Land (1911).
“The Perfume of Egypt,” by C. W. Leadbeater, originally appeared in The Perfume of Egypt and Other Weird Stories (1912).
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Over the last few years, our “Megapack” series of ebook anthologies has proved to be one of our most popular endeavors. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”
The Megapacks (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, Robert Reginald, A.E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!).
A NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS
The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your reader.)
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TYPOS
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—John Betancourt
Publisher, Wildside Press LLC
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