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The Vengeance of Nitocris
"The Vengeance of Nitocris" is a short story by Tennessee Williams, written when Williams was 16 years old, and published in ''Weird Tales'' in its August, 1928 issue.〔Thomas Lanier Williams, "The Vengeance of Nitocris" (''Weird Tales'', August 1928)〕 The story is a "surprisingly lurid"〔Donald Spoto, ''The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams'' (Da Capo Press, 1997: ISBN 0-306-80805-6, ISBN 978-0-306-80805-0), p. 24〕〔Francesca M. Hitchcock, "Tennessee Williams's ''Vengeance of Nitocris'': The Keynote to Future Works" (The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 48, 1995)〕 tale of loosely historical fiction, based on the account of the semi-legendary female pharaoh Nitocris found in Herodotus.〔Herodotus, ''History: Book 2''〕 Williams was paid thirty-five dollars (almost $500 in 2013 money) for the story by ''Weird Tales''; it was his first piece of stand-alone published fiction.〔 Robert E. Howard's "Red Shadows", the story that introduced Solomon Kane, was the cover story.〔(Replica issue ) from the Vintage Library. Accessed Feb. 13, 2009.〕
==Plot==
Nitocris is the sister of an unnamed pharaoh. When a bridge the pharaoh built across the Nile collapses, the pharaoh extinguishes the sacred fires of Osiris, defiles a temple with hyena sacrifices, and as a result dies at the hands of an angry mob of priests and citizens. Nitocris, now the empress, takes revenge for the execution of her brother for sacrilege by inviting his judges to a banquet in a magnificent temple she has constructed, feigning only a desire to atone for his offenses. In fact, the new temple is an elaborate death trap. Once they have gathered, she opens a sluice gate and allows the water of the Nile to drown them all, and takes a great deal of pleasure in their demise. Then, realizing that she cannot escape retribution, she has her "boudoir" filled with hot ashes and commits suicide by asphyxiation.〔〔Matthew Charles Roudané, ''The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams'' (Cambridge: ISBN 0-521-49883-X, ISBN 978-0-521-49883-8), p. 2〕〔
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