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GOLEM CLAY FOR PURPLE SCAR #4/A MUMMY MOVIE'S INFLUENCE

With a conscientious company like Airship 27 Productions, projects always reach fruition, despite unforeseen delays. As such, The Purple Scar, Vol 4 has at long last entered its culminating, production phases and will include illustrations by Chuck (The Last Days of Poe) Bordell, with Adam (Ravenwood, Stepson of Mystery, Vol 4) Shaw on the short list to render its cover. 

As readers may recall, The Purple Scar, Vol 4 will include one of my stories. For the most part, it caters to the golem legend, but it also incorporates mummy-movie lore, namely an aspect of Universal Studios' The Mummy's Curse in which Virginia Christine's reincarnated Princess Ananka rises from the boggy clay. I can't unveil how this precise component figures into the tale, so as not to spoil the plot, but trust me, one will recognize its influence once it (ahem) unwraps.

The Purple Scar, aka Dr. Miles Murdock, is a horror-leaning character, so to weave golem and mummy notions into the pulp hero's macabre mythology was an absolute delight, as well as an maneuver that felt so right. 

I'm proud of "Golem Clay" and honored that Airship 27's upcoming anthology will bring my yarn to frightful light. Stay tuned for further details.  

A MUMMY MOVIE'S INFLUENCE

It's been a stretch since I've posted on "Golem Clay", my story slated for "The Purple Scar, Vol 4", but since there's renewed buzz on the anthology (thanks to Airship 27's July podcast), I've decided to elaborate on one of its supporting components. 

The story's prime inspiration stems from Hebrew/golem mythology,  of course, but there's a Lon Chaney Jr, Kharis flick, "The Mummy's Curse" (my all-time, favorite mummy movie, I'll have you know) which also swathed (tee-hee) my idea. 

It all comes down to pretty Princess Ananka (played by Virginia Christine: Mrs. Olsen from those famous Folgers commercials) who surfaces from the swamp in a vital scene, caked in mud and cranking upward in a way that appears stop-motion-like (though it all emanates from Christine's adroit acting.)

In the case of "Golem Clay", I feature my own odd female: not a mummy, but a clay creature inspired by this precise segment. (I made matters a wee more sensual for my lady's insertion, but that creepy-clay semblance still dominates.)

Whether this element works to my tale's benefit will be for readers to decide, but I do hope it gives them the same intense reaction that Christine's revived Ananka has always given me. 

Hope you enjoyed this tidbit, and when it comes to "Purple Scar, Vol 4'"s progression, I promise to keep all "bizarrechats" followers in the monsterized loop. Till later.