Minicthulhu Wrote:
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> Today I finished a short novel called "In The
> Dwellings of The Wilderness" (1904) by Catherine
> Bryson Taylor. It tales a story about excavations
> in a lost city (in Egypt?) that has been buried
> under the desert sands for hundred and hundred
> years. The main characters come across an
> underground chamber with the door blocked up by
> the original builders and once they are inside
> they find a hideous object lying on the ground
> which turns out to be the mummy of a princess with
> a very bad reputation. After opening the chamber,
> strange things begin to happen, some of the men
> disappear without a trace, there are strange
> hallucinations on the part of those who come too
> close to the chamber and there is something (of
> course, it is the mummy come alive) prowling about
> at night which has definite vampirish tendencies
> (which is plainly seen during a struggle with one
> of the men when the being wants to suck his blood)
>
>
> [
www.goodreads.com]
> e-dwellings-of-the-wilderness?from_search=true&fro
> m_srp=true&qid=BinnD5NYos&rank=2
> [
en.wikisource.org]
> _the_Wilderness
I never heard of this one, and it looks like a fit. Thank you.