Fury From the Tomb

The Institute for Singular Antiquities Book I

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Pub Date 1 May 2018 | Archive Date 19 Apr 2018

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Description

Mummies, grave-robbing ghouls, hopping vampires, and evil monks  beset a young archaeologist, in this fast-paced Indiana Jones-style adventure

Saqqara, Egypt, 1888, and in the booby-trapped tomb of an ancient sorcerer, Rom, a young Egyptologist, makes the discovery of a lifetime: five coffins and an eerie, oversized sarcophagus. But the expedition seems cursed, for after unearthing the mummies, all but Rom die horribly. He faithfully returns to America with his disturbing cargo, continuing by train to Los Angeles, home of his reclusive sponsor. When the train is hijacked by murderous banditos in the Arizona desert, who steal the mummies and flee over the border, Rom – with his benefactor’s rebellious daughter, an orphaned Chinese busboy, and a cold-blooded gunslinger – must ride into Mexico to bring the malevolent mummies back. If only mummies were their biggest problem…

File Under: Fantasy
Mummies, grave-robbing ghouls, hopping vampires, and evil monks  beset a young archaeologist, in this fast-paced Indiana Jones-style adventure

Saqqara, Egypt, 1888, and in the booby-trapped tomb of...

Advance Praise

“Little-known fact: H Rider Haggard and H P Lovecraft once stole a time machine and piloted it decades into the future, where they convinced Sergio Leone and Steven Spielberg to help them create the greatest horror-adventure-Western mash-up imaginable to human minds. Or so I’m assuming, because I just read Fury From the Tomb. Obviously, ‘S A Sidor’ is the pseudonym they all agreed upon so no meddlers would come after the time machine. But I’m not fooled.”
– Steve Hockensmith, New York Times-bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

“Little-known fact: H Rider Haggard and H P Lovecraft once stole a time machine and piloted it decades into the future, where they convinced Sergio Leone and Steven Spielberg to help them create the...


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ISBN 9780857667618
PRICE US$9.99 (USD)
PAGES 448

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Featured Reviews

Romulus Hardy is an academic Egyptologist and now, in 1888, he has made a discovery that could shock the world and give him some great academic recognition. He has found a tomb in Egypt with five undisturbed coffins and a very large sarcophagus. Retrieving these, however, seems dangerous as all on the expedition but Romulus die horribly.

Romulus manages to get his items to the United States, but while on the train to his recluse backer, the train is hijacked and Romulus and an odd assortment of others must track down his stolen goods, now in Mexico. But the goods themselves have other ideas. Now released from their cursed imprisonment, the mummies, led by Amun Odji-Kek, Sorcerer of Set. It will be no small feat for Hardy to just survive his encounter with Kek, much less restore order.

I had a lot of fun with this. It reads like classic pulp fiction. There's a bit of Lovecraft style here with Romulus going on and on, telling us what is happening and how he's feeling about things, but then there is more action, as though it were combined with some better B-grade horror movie.

I know that the popularity of horror 'monsters' ebbs and flows. Vampires will be the hot things, then zombies or other forms of the 'undead' will be big. I haven't stayed very current with horror pop culture, but I wonder if this is a sign that evil/cursed mummies will be the next wave of horror creatures. I had seen evidence that dark mermaids or other evil sea creatures were popping up in books, but they've waned a bit.

It's nearly impossible to not make any comparisons to Indiana Jones here. We've got an academic going to the desert to unearth some ancient artifacts. How do you NOT think of Indiana Jones unless you are under twenty and haven't been exposed to the films? But the comparison only lasted for a chapter or two, and then the darker aspects took over.

This isn't the sort of book you take too seriously. It's guilty fun while it lasts. I can't imagine I'll think back on it too much, but I enjoyed it.

Looking for a good book? <em>Fury from the Tomb</em> by S.A. Sidor is fun horror fiction, complete with evil mummies and curses.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

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Fury From the Tomb is a very weird mash-up of horror and western genres in the late 1800s. The protagonist is a young archeologist who is hired by a rich old man to hunt for artifacts in Egypt. With guidance from his patron, he makes a very strange find and barely escapes with the mummies from Egypt only to lose them to a ghouls in the American Southwest. Accompanied by his patron's daughter, a young Chinese busboy, and a gunslinger for hire, he ventures into Mexico to retrieve the mummies, face mad monks,giant worms, and Chinese vampires only to have to overcome a monster from the past now reborn! The fun is reading exactly how the party will manage to escape this time!

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