Just a short post today, which is March 26. It’s the birthday of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983). The playwright’s first story was “The Vengeance of Nitocris” in the August 1926 issue of  Weird Tales.

It has been reprinted many times. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database lists over two dozen appearances since ti first appeared in The Unique Magazine, although some of those are different editions of the same volume, such as book club editions.

I’ve been buried under lawn work and grading exams today, so I haven’t had a chance to reread it. I read it years ago, and I don’t recall enough about the story to talk about it.

The August 1928 issue of Weird Tales had a number of well-known authors in its Table of Contents. In addition to the Solomon Kane story by Robert E. Howard featured on the cover, the issue also included stories by Frank Belknap Long, Everil Worrell, Edmund Hamilton, Donald Wandrei, and Robert W. Chambers.

Not bad company for your first published short story.