One of Cleopatra's Nights
(2026)Tales and Poems of Egyptian Horror
An anthology of stories edited by S T Joshi
For more than two centuries, fiction writers and poets have been evoking the horrors of ancient Egypt—with its mummies, its hybrid gods that combine features of animals and human beings, and the general sense of unholy antiquity that emanates from one of the world’s oldest civilizations—as the basis of tales and poems of supernatural terror. Such short story writers as Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Théophile Gautier, Sax Rohmer, Robert W. Chambers, Robert E. Howard, and Algernon Blackwood have written stories were reanimated mummies sow horror and destruction, while Lord Dunsany wrote a pungent play about Queen Nitokris. In the present day, such leading contemporary weird poets as Ann K. Schwader, Wade German, and Scott J. Couturier have drawn upon the strangeness of ancient Egypt for their evocative verses. This volume collects some of the best tales and poems of Egyptian horror from the early nineteenth century to the present day, in works that still produce a shudder.
Genre: Horror
Genre: Horror
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