What weird meant to Williams

In August 1928, Weird Tales magazine published “The vengeance of Nitocris,” a short story written by 16 year-old Thomas Lanier Williams. What Tennessee Williams wrote later in his life resembles the plots, the structure, and stylings of stories (including the names of characters) that appeared in Weird Tales in and around 1927 and 1928. Consistently, where the progression of certain fantasy images (including ghosts and vampires) in Weird Tales leads to withering death and punishment in hell, the same fantasy imagery included by Williams in his plays, poetry, and fiction progresses to flourishing life and, even in death, as in the death of Nitocris, self-defined accomplishment and satisfaction.