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Supernatural & Occult Fiction
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Supernatural & Occult Fiction
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R. Reginald Douglas Menville
See last pages of this volume for a complete list of titles.
THE MUMMY AND MISS NITOCRIS
_A PHANTASY OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION_
GEORGE GRIFFITH
ARNO PRESS A New York Times Company 1976
Editorial Supervision: MARIE STARECK
Reprint Edition 1976 by Arno Press Inc.
Reprinted from a copy in The Library of the University of California, Riverside
SUPERNATURAL AND OCCULT FICTION
ISBN for complete set: O-405-08107-3
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Manufactured in the United States of America
~Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data~ Griffith, George Chetwynd. The mummy and Miss Nitocris.
(Supernatural and occult fiction) Reprint of the 1906? ed. published by T. W. Laurie, London.
I. Title. II. Series. PZ3.G88Mu7 [PR4728.083] 823'.8 75-46273 ISBN 0-405-08131-6
THE MUMMY AND MISS NITOCRIS
_A PHANTASY OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION_
BY
GEORGE GRIFFITH
AUTHOR OF "THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION," "A HONEYMOON IN SPACE," "AN ISLAND LOVE STORY," "A MAYFAIR MAGICIAN," ETC., ETC.
T. WERNER LAURIE CLIFFORD'S INN, FLEET STREET LONDON
FOREWORD
Certain it should be that, beyond and about this World of Length, andBreadth, and Thickness, there is another World, or State of Existence,consisting of these and another dimension of which only those beings whoare privileged to enter or dwell in it can have any conception. Now, ifthis postulate be granted, it follows that a dweller in this State wouldbe freed from those conditions of Time and Space which bind those beingswho are confined within the limits of Tri-Dimensional Space, orExistence. For example, he would be able to make himself visible orinvisible to us at will by entering into or withdrawing himself fromthis State, and returning into that of Four Dimensions, whither our eyescould not follow him--even though he might be close to us in our senseof nearness. Moreover, he could be in two or more places at once, andcause two bodies to occupy the same space--which to us isinconceivable. Stranger still, he might be both alive and dead at thesame time--since Past, Present, and Future would be all one to him; theworld without beginning or end ...--From the "GeometricalPossibilities," of Abd'el Kasir, of Cordoba, circa. 1050 A.D.
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. INTRODUCES THE MUMMY 1
II. BACK TO THE PAST 15
III. THE DEATH-BRIDAL OF NITOCRIS 27
IV. THIEVES IN THE NIGHT 36
V. ACROSS THE THRESHOLD 47
VI. THE LAW OF SELECTION 60
VII. MOSTLY POSSIBILITIES 70
VIII. MISS BRENDA ARRIVES, AND PHADRIG THE EGYPTIAN PROPHESIES 79
IX. "THE WILDERNESS," WIMBLEDON COMMON 95
X. THE STAGE FILLS 101
XI. THE MARVELS OF PHADRIG 115
XII. CONTROVERSY AND CONFIDENCES 138
XIII. OVER THE TEA AND THE TOAST 157
XIV. "SUPPOSED IMPOSSIBILITIES" 164
XV. THE ADVANCEMENT OF NITOCRIS--THE RESOLVE OF OSCAROVITCH 176
XVI. THE MYSTERY OF PRINCE ZASTROW 185
XVII. M. NICOL HENDRY 199
XVIII. MURDER BY SUGGESTION 210
XIX. THE HORUS STONE 220
XX. THROUGH THE CENTURIES 237
XXI. WHAT HAPPENED AT TRELITZ 251
XXII. A TRIP ON THE SOUND 260
XXIII. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PROFESSOR 274
XXIV. THE LUST THAT WAS--AND IS 281
XXV. THE PASSING OF PHADRIG 290
XXVI. CAPTAIN MERILL'S COMMISSION 304
XXVII. THE BRIDAL OF OSCAROVITCH 307
EPILOGUE 312
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