The Long Night Of The Grave

Charles L. Grant sets forth to take us across time and into a fantasy world to his remarkable little Connecticut town of Oxrun Station. There are new horrors on the loose to excite each reader. For all of you who, like the author, yearn for something “blatantly old-fashioned,” here is an opportunity to climb back into the past, and experience the thrill of the classic tale of “The Mummy”-the jackal-headed god … ancient Egypt … mummies … eternal life.

I miss the old-fashioned frights, the chains, the bats, the storms, the heroines who opened that door and the heroes who didn't, the fog, the rats, the carriages thundering through midnight, the laboratories, the swamps, the old castles, the mumbled incantations …