In the Valley of the Kings This story presents a foreboding and terror-driven psychological horror about a man who awakens in a dissheveled and abandoned building complex located on the surface of a distant planet, suffering from total amnesia and not knowing who he is or where he comes from. The eponymous and longest section of the book (deemed a novella by the author), "In the Valley of the Kings" tells the story of an obsessive Egyptologist who has discovered the most massive underground structure ever built: a giant tomb for an unnameable God-king of ancient Egypt whose powers of immortality the researcher tries to unveil,
Ursus in the Valley of the Lions "Valley of the Lions" (Ursus' name was omitted from the title for some reason). This film was also distributed as "Son of Atlas in the Valley of the Lions". An interesting note is that the actors who played the two villains in this film both appeared in Italian cult horror films as well. Alberto Lupo (King Ajak) had played the monster in "Atom Age Vampire" (1960), while Gerard Herter (who played Ajak's henchman Lothar in the film) had played a maniacal killer in "Caltiki, the Immortal Monster" (1959). The evil dictator Ajak sends his armies to attack a neighboring kingdom,