dead wind

Air is pumped through, neither warm nor cold, totally without odor, a dead wind.

The little faceless robot heads inc off, through murmurous black corridors where the dead wind blows.

He took supper with the Masters, and found, wandering outside afterward into the dead wind of twilight, the High One's harpist coming up the road.

"Dead Wind" (1982)

Playing mind games all around, he arranges to have the dead wind explained as Zeus's anger that Artemis has been honored above him in Agamemnon's Mycenae.

It took years, with long caravans of the dead winding their way thousands of miles from the Middle East, until, at last, the mummies were brought to this place of rest."

The shared world premise of Heroes in Hell is that all the dead wind up together in Hell, where they pick up where they left off when still alive.

This is an important distinction, as most other major varieties of myiasitic fly larvae attack both live and dead wound tissue indiscriminately, effectively negating their benefit in non-harmful wound debridement.