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DEN PATRICK was born in Dorset and shares a birthday with Bram Stoker. He has at various times been a comics editor, burlesque reviewer, bookseller and Games Workshop staffer. Anything to avoid getting a real job in fact. He lives and works in London. His first three books for Gollancz, the War Manuals, are released in 2013. The first novel of The Erebus Sequence, The Boy with the Porcelain Blade is released April 2014.
ADAM ROBERTS was born two-thirds of the way through the last century. He is a writer of science fiction, and a professor of nineteenth-century literature, and he lives a little way west of London. His most recent novels are By Light Alone, Jack Glass and Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (with Mahendra Singh).
MOLLY TANZER lives in Boulder, Colorado, along the front range of the Mountains of Madness, or maybe just the Flatirons. Her debut collection, A Pretty Mouth (Lazy Fascist Press), has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award in the Best Newcomer category, as well as the Wonderland Book Award for Best Collection. Her second collection, Rumbullion and Other Liminal Libations, is forthcoming through Egaeus Press in the autumn of 2013.
MICHAEL E. WEST is the critically-acclaimed author of The Wide Game, Cinema of Shadows, Spook House, Skull Full of Kisses and the Legacy of the Gods series. A member of the Horror Writers Association and Indiana Horror Writers, where he serves as President, West earned a degree in Telecommunications and Film Theory from Indiana University, and since that time, he has written a multitude of short stories, articles, and reviews for various on-line and print publications.
GAREN EWIG is the creator of the Adventures of Julius Chancer, with The Rainbow Orchid being named one of The Observer’s best graphic novels of 2012. Other work includes illustrations for books, magazines, websites, DVDs, and even a Royal Mail stamp. He lives in Sussex with his wife and two children
JOHN J. JOHNSTON is Vice-Chair of the Egypt Exploration Society. He is currently undertaking research on Ptolemaic mortuary beliefs and practices for his PhD at UCL, although his research interests encompass the reception of ancient Egypt in popular culture, sexuality in the ancient world and the history of Egyptology. He has lectured extensively on all of these topics throughout the UK and abroad and has contributed to the DVD/BD releases of two gloriously restored Hammer mummy films. In addition writing to a number of reception-based articles, he is co-editor of Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East: Literary Linguistic Approaches (Peeters, 2011), A Good Scribe and an Exceedingly Wise Man: studies in honour of W.J. Tait (Golden House, In press) and an anthology of classic mummy fiction from the past, Unearthed (Jurassic London, 2013).
JARED SHURIN is a certified BBQ judge.
The Egypt Exploration Society
The Egypt Exploration Society was founded in 1882 by the writer Amelia Edwards, who had become captivated by Egypt and its history during a lengthy sojourn there in the winter of 1873-4. The visit, however, left her deeply troubled by the deterioration of many of the ancient sites and, together with a group of like-minded scholars and other interested individuals, she created the Society in order to fully explore and document the archaeological remains as a means of creating a lasting record of the country’s ancient past.
Over the course of more than a century, the EES has explored hundreds of sites in Egypt, excavating not only tombs and temples but also entire towns and cities. Millions of the objects most threatened by treasure hunters have been excavated on behalf of the Society by some of the great names of Egyptology, resulting in substantial quantities of scientifically excavated artefacts entering many of the great museum collections in Egypt and throughout the world, where they continue to attract the attention academics and the public, alike.
Part of the EES’ mission is to generate enthusiasm for Egypt’s past and to raise awareness of the importance of protecting its sites, through continuing excavation, publication, and education. The EES relies almost entirely on public support to fund its work and needs your help, through subscriptions and donations, to ensure that it continues to fulfil its mission at a time when Egypt’s heritage is no less threatened than it was at the time of the Society’s conception.
To learn more about the work of the EES or to become a member visit their website at http://www.ees.ac.uk/
The Egypt Exploration Society is a Company limited by guarantee and registered in England
No. 25816. Registered charity No.212384.
Acknowledgements
The editor would like to thank the many people that made this possible, including David Bailey, Rebecca Levene, Glen Mehn, Gary Northfield and Jurassic London’s former pharoah, Anne C. Perry.
Above all, we would like to thank the Egypt Exploration Society and the tireless John J. Johnston. His enthusiasm, dedication and eternal good cheer are what made this volume possible.