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Essential Guide To Mummy Literature
Brian J. Frost
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Description for Essential Guide To Mummy Literature
Hardback. In The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature, Brian J. Frost provides the first in-depth survey and bibliography of works of fiction featuring mummies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
Few historical relics have exerted such a hold on our imaginations as the mummy. In 1834, Thomas J. Pettigrew's A History of Egyptian Mummies was the first scholarly work wholly devoted to the subject, providing, for its time, a remarkable analysis of the different mummification techniques used by the ancient embalmers. Such volumes of serious nonfiction have been supplemented over the years by additional works, both scholarly and otherwise, as well as works of fiction that incorporate and expand upon mummy lore. Indeed, the popular concept of the mummy as a malevolent monster dates back to the nineteenth century, when ... Read more
Few historical relics have exerted such a hold on our imaginations as the mummy. In 1834, Thomas J. Pettigrew's A History of Egyptian Mummies was the first scholarly work wholly devoted to the subject, providing, for its time, a remarkable analysis of the different mummification techniques used by the ancient embalmers. Such volumes of serious nonfiction have been supplemented over the years by additional works, both scholarly and otherwise, as well as works of fiction that incorporate and expand upon mummy lore. Indeed, the popular concept of the mummy as a malevolent monster dates back to the nineteenth century, when ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810860391
SKU
V9780810860391
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About Brian J. Frost
Brian J. Frost is widely regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on weird fiction. He is the author of The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature (1989) and The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature (2003).
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