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Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2011-05, Vol.22 (2 (82)), p.286-291
Ort / Verlag
Pocatello: International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The introduction is an explication of the purpose of mummification and a chronological survey of tomb discovery that begins in 1820 and ends in 1922 with the excavation of Tutankhamen's resting place, its attendant mysteries including the cause of his death, and the rumors and media attention surrounding the curse and the studies of it up to Gerald O'Farrell's The Tutankhamen Deception: The True Story of the Mummy1 s Curse (2001), which suggests that Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvan made up the curse to cover their tomb robbing and their theft of many of the tomb's most valuable artifacts. Frost joins the mummy with lost-race literature through H. Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure (1886); Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance ofHarmachis (1889); and King Solomon s Mines (1885). According to Frost, the 1970s were the beginning of a mummy revival "after decades of neglect" (29). While Frost discusses such authors as Pauline Gedge, Tany Huff, and Linda S. Robinson, he reserves a special paragraph for Lansdale's black comedy "Bubba Ho-Tep" (1994), in which a geriatric Elvis Presley battles a "soul-sucking mummy" (35) feeding off the residents of a retirement home.