Introduction

Since the publication of “The Vengeance of Nitocris” in 1928, Tennessee Williams’s short stories never stopped spinning their imaginative webs in the nooks and crannies of his work. Weird Tales, the horror fiction pulp magazine in which Williams’s first story was published, bears a title that alrea...

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Auteurs principaux: Maruéjouls-Koch, Sophie, Zúñiga, Laura Torres
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Journal of the Short Story in English 2026
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Since the publication of “The Vengeance of Nitocris” in 1928, Tennessee Williams’s short stories never stopped spinning their imaginative webs in the nooks and crannies of his work. Weird Tales, the horror fiction pulp magazine in which Williams’s first story was published, bears a title that already places “The Vengeance of Nitocris” within the Southern gothic tradition in which Williams has been traditionally included. He himself acknowledged his adherence to gothic aesthetics in his intro...