Three American archaeologists unwittingly release the evil spirit of a centuries dead Egyptian femme fatale -- In the Dwellings of the Wilderness C. Bryson Taylor's "lost" 1904 dark fantasy novel, featuring literature's first vampire mummy, is now unearthed in an affordable new edition by Dead Letter Press, as part of the Literary Vampire Series. Includes the Introduction "The Tomb of Obscurity" by series editor Tom English. Cover art by Allen Koszowski. In the Dwellings of the Wilderness is the second volume in the Literary Vampire Series, edited by Tom English and presenting the early English prose and poetry that helped create an enduring sub-genre of horror fiction.