“Elaine’s Tomb”
1931-01-00
short story
By G. Peyton Wertenbaker

Synopsis

Two professors travel to Egypt on evidence of a lost civilzation that had the secret of reviving the dead. One falls ill inside a tomb and the other puts him in suspended animation. He wakes in another time, when the sun has become small and red.

History

First publication: Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1931

Review

Interesting to me because it is another excurion into the far future. The sun has dimmed and the northern hemisphere is in a new ice age. I find the world interesting, but that is really all there is, a journey from Egypt to North America and the description of the things seen. The main character is going to find Elaine’s Tomb of course. But the characters of the story are stiff and uninteresting. Not the best.


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