β Scribed by Case, David
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When Thomas Ashley is invited to accompany the archaeological expedition of Sir Harold Gregory, he travels beyond the Great Cataract to enter a realm of endless sand, windswept cliffs, and the Egypt of the pharaohs. Treading through the detritus of this vanished civilization, Ashley and his party uncover a New Kingdom sarcophagus containing a mummy that has lain sequestered, undisturbed over the aeons, within a rock-cut tomb. While Ashley is translating the hieroglyphic writings that attend this discovery, a scandal erupts over the mummy, involving both a hideous mutilation and the threat of a pharaonic curse. More ominously, the expedition is visited by a mysterious intruder, Lucian Mallory.
Mallory lures the young scholar to his residence in England, where Ashley is asked to decipher several curious papyrus scrolls, retrieved from an ancient necropolis, which purportedly preserve Egyptian secrets of resurrection and immortality. Struggling to interpret the runic writings, Ashley makes the astonishing discovery that these magical incantations and mystical formulas are a key to the arcane knowledge of the past, spells wrought by the Egyptian sorcerers and then lost to mankind over the millennia. With the beautiful Arabella Cunningham, Ashley seeks to use this arcane knowledge to redeem the life of a present-day man, but then encounters the ultimate horror in a curse that comes down the ages to haunt the modern world.
As extraordinary a novel as Arkham House has ever published, The Third Grave was conceived by one of the few living fantasists capable of fulfilling the literary requirements of the genre. Dave Case's first book, published twelve years ago, created a sensation among the cognoscenti of the macabre, and this new novel reaffirms his stature as one of the great American masters of horror.
David F. Case was born in upstate New York in 1937, settled in England for ten years in 1960, and more recently has enjoyed a peripatetic writer's existence that includes lengthy sojourns in Greece. His two collections of macabre talesThe Cell and Other Tales of Horror (1969) and Fengriffen and Other Stories (1971)occasioned critical comparison with the classic weird fiction of Algernon Blackwood, and these books now have attained a legendary status among devotees of the genre. Much of Case's recent creative effort has been expended upon a series of Western novels, and thus The Third Grave signifies the welcome reemergence of a major American fantasist.
Stephen E. Fabian has been interested in art and illustration since early childhood, although his first career was in the aerospace industry where he was employed as an electronics engineer. In 1967 he submitted several drawings to an amateur science-fiction magazine, and his artwork received immediate critical acclaim for its professional technique, arresting sense of drama, and masterly comprehension of the fantasy genre. The fabulous Fabian has illustrated many books for Arkham House and was honored in 1977 and in 1979 with the British Fantasy Award for best professional artist.
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