C. Bryson Taylor

Charlotte Bryson Taylor Randall was an American author born in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 1880, and she died in New York on June 9, 1936. She published under the name C. Bryson Taylor and was active from the late 1890s.

Her first novel, In the Dwellings of the Wilderness (1904), is the work most often remembered today. It blends archaeology, ancient Egypt, reincarnation, and a Gothic sense of mystery, and later reference works have noted it for its speculative and uncanny elements.

She also wrote Nicanor: Teller of Tales: A Story of Roman Britain (1906), another historical novel with a strong imaginative streak. Although not widely known now, her fiction stands out for mixing historical settings with supernatural suggestion in a way that still catches the attention of genre historians.