The Nameless Mummy and Others: Edited by S. T. Joshi

The stories of Arlton Eadie comprise some of the more distinctive contributions to Weird Tales and other pulp magazines of the period. As an Englishman, Eadie drew upon the history and topography of the British Isles in several tales, such as “Flames of Destiny” (in which a man goes back in time to the period of the English Civil War), “The Immortal Hand” (which resurrects William Shakespeare), and “The Hound of Duncardin” (set in a remote part of Scotland). Other tales rely on engaging treatments of pulp formulas such as the mad scientist (“The World-Wrecker,” “The Flowing Death”), the ghosts of human beings (“The Phantom Flight”) and animals (“Warning Wings”), and horrors out of Egypt (“The Nameless Mummy”). Arlton Eadie’s stories have never been gathered in a volume before. This is the first of two volumes of his collected weird stories. Read more