According to the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, Between the Covers Rare Books Inc. is presenting a month-long exhibition of rare Tennessee Williams books, play scripts and assorted memorabilia in honor of the playwright’s 100th birthday at The Bookshop in Old New Castle [NJ] starting March 1. The Tennessee Williams Centennial Exhibit of Rare Books and Memorabilia includes “a beautiful copy of Weird Tales magazine from 1928, which contains Williams’s first published story, written when he was just 16 using his real name, Thomas Lanier Williams.

The story is “The Vengeance of Nitocris” and was published in Weird Tales in its August, 1928 issue. It is loosely based on the legend of a female pharaoh, Nitocris found in Herodotus’s second book of History. Williams was paid thirty-five dollars for the story, his first piece of stand-alone published fiction. The cover story for the issue was Robert E. Howard’s “Red Shadows”, the story that introduced Solomon Kane.