Mummy Case

Morley, narrating in another place the description of the mummy-case as jotted down by Von Lorfmon and passed on to Schuyler, mentions the fact that large portions of seaweed adhered to it -- seaweed of a kind found only at great depths, on the bottom of the ocean. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

Since you are positive that the picture of the mummy is the picture of Kathulos -- and there is little room for fraud -- one of two things is practically certain: the Scorpion was never dead but ages ago was placed in that mummy-case and his life preserved in some manner, or else -- he was dead and has been brought to life! ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

Gordon and I watched them closely as they made their way to a large mummy-case which stood upright against the wall not far from the back. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

At last, baffled, we returned to the mummy-case, which was certainly long enough to conceal even a man of Kathulos 'height. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

And search it we did, with the combined craft of a secret service expert and a denizen of the underworld -- while Hansen stood stolidly at his post, the two Negroes standing over the carved mummy-case watched us impassively and the Levantine sitting like a sphinx on his mat, puffing a fog of smoke into the air. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

The chamber was square, with walls and ceiling of polished black marble and furnished after the manner of the ancient Stygians; there was a couch of ebony, covered with black velvet, and on a black stone dais lay a carven mummy-case. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)

Into this cavern came some of the same dark, wiry men who had borne the mummy-case. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)

But none looked aside from the mummy-case over which the man in the ermine-trimmed robe was now moving the great flaming jewel while he muttered an incantation that was old when Atlantis sank. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)

He was staring at the mummy-case, on which the countenance of the occupant was carved in ivory with the startling vividness of a forgotten art. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2003)

The man was standing with staring eyes; wide open, fish-shaped eyes, so motionless that they looked like the eyes painted on a mummy-case. ❋ Unknown (2003)

` Zamorian thieves, partly protected by spells I learned from sources better left unmentioned, stole your mummy-case from under the very talons of those which guarded it in the dark, and by camel-caravan and galley and ox-wagon it came at last to this city. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1989)