The Mummies of Guanajuato

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The Mummies of Guanajuato
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cover the first edition
Author Ray Bradbury
IllustratorArchie Lieberman
Cover artistArchie Lieberman
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Horror novelette
Publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Publication date
1978
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages96 pp
ISBN 0-8109-1325-9
OCLC 3380409
813/.5/4
LC Class F1219.1.G86 M85

The Mummies of Guanajuato is a 1978 book which reprints Ray Bradbury's novelette, "The Next in Line", illustrated with photographs, by Archie Lieberman, of the actual mummies discovered in Guanajuato which inspired the story. The story originally appeared in Bradbury's first book, Dark Carnival , in 1947.

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