''The Mummies of Guanajuato'' is a 1978 book which reprints
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery fictio ...
's novelette, "The Next in Line", illustrated with photographs, by Archie Lieberman, of the actual
mummies
A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay furt ...
discovered in
Guanajuato which inspired the story. The story originally appeared in Bradbury's first book, ''
Dark Carnival'', in 1947.
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1978 short story collections
Short story collections by Ray Bradbury
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