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Finished "The Colossus from the Crater" last night and fired it off to Monstrous magazine for their comments.

This is the sci-fi horror story about a thirty-foot-tall mummy running amok on an alien moon I promised to write back in August.

My inspiration? Curiously enough, kaiju-sized mummies are a recurring theme on horror movie posters, but only symbolically, alas.

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

Greg Cox said:

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

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I think I've done that once or twice. Of course we both have a lot of catching up to do, before we're anywhere close to the Zucker Brothers.

Greg Cox said:

My inspiration? Curiously enough, kaiju-sized mummies are a recurring theme on horror movie posters, but only symbolically, alas.

I couldn't resist making it literal for once.

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The Super Sentai/Power Rangers franchise has had occasional mummy-themed monsters that have grown to giant size for the climactic giant-robot fights, for instance: